Land conflicts and destruction in the Brazilian Amazon
This is the first of a series of articles contributed by LAB partner Agência Pública from São Paulo, Brazil. It brings together material first...
Brazil: The FBI and Lava Jato
Leaked documents have revealed the cosy relationship between Brazilian prosecutors and the FBI in the Lava Jato (Car Wash) investigations – including a meeting kept secret from the Dilma Rousseff administration.
Brazil’s failed Africa project
Companies like Vale and Odebrecht are in charge of Brazil's largest projects in Africa, with disastrous consequences.
Brazil: the poor must serve their sentence while the rich can...
Vitória lives in a small two-room house with her baby son Lucas and mother Laura in Jardim Guarani, on the northern periphery of São...
Brazil: I skip meals to feed my children
Single mothers who raise their families alone were hit face on by the loss of jobs and income; women are always the last to eat.
Brazil: deforestation financed from US & Argentina
Communities awaiting compensation from the worst environmental disaster in Brazilian history say they’re being stymied by a convoluted legal process that favors those responsible.
Brazilian Favelas: ‘I Died In The Mare’
Mare Favela children speak in a crowd-funded documentary film about life in a Brazilian urban slum.
Brazil: Bolsonaro – the lone wolf dreams of glory
This article is an edited translation. You can read the original on Agencia Pública's website, in Portuguese, here.
Former army captain Jair Bolsonaro is no...
Brazil: police target MST members in land occupations
The small town of Quedas do Iguaçu, in southern Brazil close to the border with Paraguay, awoke to the sound of helicopters on November 4 last...
The indigenous midwives of the Amazon
In the villages of Tabatinga, Amazonas, Ticuna midwives work
according to ancestral traditions, honing their skills generation after
generation. However, they remain unrecognised by the state.
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