Thousands of revelers gathered alongside Copacabana beach for Rio de Janeiro’s annual pride parade on Sunday, many scantily ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Thousands of revelers gathered alongside Copacabana beach for Rio de Janeiro’s annual pride parade on ...

BRAZIL has opened a social summit in the run-up to next week’s Group of 20 (G20) meeting of top economies, the first such ...

Brazil has launched what it calls a social summit ahead of next week’s Group of 20 meeting of the top economies.

These include combating inequality, promoting climate justice, improving access to sanitation ... which recently reclaimed the title of most populous favela from another one outside the capital ...

At last, justice came. On October 31st two former policemen ... A gay black woman from a favela, Ms Franco was an icon of Brazil’s left. She had made it her mission to expose links between ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil launched what it called a social summit Thursday ahead of next week's Group of 20 meeting of top economies, the first such event focused on drawing civil society ...

This article, written by Bibbi Abruzzini and Clarisse Sih, is part of the #MarchWithUs campaign, which features stories from gender justice activists from across the globe. Listen to the podcast ...

Those demands are listed on a document entitled Comuniquê, to be unveiled Monday (Nov. 4), National Favela Day, by Favela 20 (F20), a project created by Voz das Comunidades, a socially aware NGO ...

The World Urban Forum (WUF) is a global conference on sustainable urbanisation. It was established by the United Nations in 2001 to examine one of the most pressing issues facing the world today: ...