Tag: women
Brazilian Women Find Their Voice Against Repression and the Government
The street parties of the world’s biggest Carnaval might be one of the last ...
Rio’s Carnaval Celebrates Life and Blasts New President
Rio de Janeiro’s world-famous Carnaval celebrations officially began on Friday in the first festival ...
São Paulo Joins New Delhi as World’s Worst Megacity for Women Rape
Five years after the fatal gang rape of a student on a bus in ...
Women in the Streets Against a Brazilian Mayor with Presidential Ambitions
In Brazil, a group of women have been protesting at the city hall in ...
Every Minute 8 Women Are Victims of Violence in Brazil
Details from DataFolha’s latest study, “Visible and Invisible: The Mistreatment of Women in Brazil,” ...
Discrimination from Parties Keeps Brazilian Women from Elective Posts
Nearly 20 years after it became mandatory for political parties in Brazil to save ...
Brazilian Women Victims of Violence Urged to Denounce Their Assailants
“Do not report tomorrow the abuse you suffer today.” This is the motto adopted ...
Women’s Hands Are All Over Brazil’s Booming Agribusiness
In Rondonópolis, in the interior of Mato Grosso state, in Brazil, a woman called ...
Brazil Might Soon Have a Female President But There Are Still Too Few Women in Politics
In the coming October 3 presidential election, two of the three frontrunners are women. ...
Ever So Slowly Brazilian Women Are Catching Up to Their Male Peers
Neither Giselle, nor destitute homeless. A new portrait of Brazilian women emerges from a ...
