Tag: women

‘No hypocrisy - unsafe abortion kills the poor every day’ and ‘For women’s lives’. Signs held in support of legal abortion during a march in São Paulo | MIGUEL SCHINCARIOL/AFP via Getty Images

Abortion: Pro-choice Forces in Brazil Are Being Threatened by Christian Radicals and the Ultra-right

Brazil’s Supreme Court has postponed a debate on decriminalizing early-term abortion, leading feminists and ...

Message on the T-shirt: YES to Human Rights in Brazil

Religious Extremism and Intolerance Give Way to Renewed Human Rights in Brazil

The result of Brazil’s election last October was a cause for celebration for many ...

A painting of a woman lying in bed next to a man. Heritage Images/Hilton Fine Art Collection via Getty Images

Why Women’s Casual Sex Is Seen So Negatively by Male and Female?

F. Scott Fitzgerald famously called the Roaring Twenties – which happened on the heels ...

Brazilian women protest in the streets against Jair Bolsonaro. Photo by Rovena Rosa/ABr

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 samba school Unidos da Tijuca - Tomaz Silva/ABr

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 ...

The protesters' banner accuses Doria of being an enemy of the women

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 ...

60 percent of attackers are current or ex-partners of victims

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 ...