Brazil: The cruel realities of domestic service
Daughters of rural families find that work as maids in the city is no route to education and independence
Brazil: The World Cup damages people’s rights
Popular organizations from 12 cities that will host the 2014 World Cup say that the people's rights are being ignored as areas are 'beautified' for the visiting fans.
Brazil: The cost to Rio of hosting the Rio Games and...
Evictions, speculative building, state coercion: the harsh realities of Rio de Janeiro's preparations for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games documented in this new film
BRAZILIAN MAIDS: A PHOTO ESSAY
Around 8 million poor women work as maids for the richer families in Brazil. Mostly descendants of slaves, they generally live in a very small room in their employer's house or flat but, even so, they are often considered 'part of the family'.
Part 3: Uruará
In the third episode of her journey, LAB editor Sue Branford reaches Uruará, a town of some 50,000 inhabitants on the Transamazônica highway.
Part 2: Santarém
In the second episode of her journey, LAB editor Sue Branford reaches Santarém, a sleepy river-port located precisely where the green water of the Tapajós river flows in to the red, muddier water of the Amazon.
Part 1: São Paulo
In the first episode of her journey, LAB editor Sue Branford visits São Paulo where she lived in the 1970s under the military dictatorship.
Amazon Journey 2013
LAB Editors Sue Branford & Nayana Fernandez travel to the Amazon to visit garimpeiros, quilombos, Mundukuru Indians and others defending land and community rights.
Brazil is still unequal, despite social programmes
Brazil’s Bolsa Família programme is widely held up as a model, but it hasn’t made Brazil more equal, says INESC.
Brazil: Forest code vote shows strength of agribusiness lobby
With the new Forest Code approved by the Senate, the agribusiness lobby presents President Dilma Rousseff with a new challenge: how much will she veto?