RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian women are speaking out against the use of the word “prostitute” in reference to a 20-year-old woman who announced she would auction off her virginity to raise money for the homeless.
Catarina Migliorini, a physical (...)
RIO DE JANEIRO and LAGOS: Marcos Abete moves quickly across his office in Brazil's commercial hub of Rio de Janeiro. It's early morning and he is already fielding calls from across Africa. For him, this is a normal day.
“We have just opened an (...)
RIO DE JANEIRO: Joaquim Barbosa has been elected as Chief Justice of the country's Supreme Court, becoming the first black person to hold that post in Brazil where more than half of its nearly 200 million population are of African descent.
Currently (...)
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil fans remain livid over the Argentina's “friendly farce” as it has been dubbed that saw a friendly match between the two football giants canceled over the weekend after the rural stadium the two sides were to face-off in had (...)
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilians are already beginning to whet their appetites, and getting their wallets ready, for the arrival of the iPhone 5 in the country.
Although the iPhone 5 still has no official launch date in Brazil, the country's (...)
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil continues to witness the murder of transgender citizens in what local rights groups and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists have said is “alarming.”
Brazil remains the “transgender murder capital of the (...)
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil's slums are world famous, being shown in film and capturing the attention of global aid donors and organizations. But their efforts still have much work to do in the country.
Some 8 million Brazilians still live in extreme (...)
RIO DE JANEIRO: Being Muslim and a woman in Brazil is a struggle for some, especially those who believe in their Brazilian culture, but are faced with a rising xenophobia that wants them out.
Salima and Jumana are both of Arab parents but consider (...)
RIO DE JANEIRO: Oil workers in Brazil are preparing to enter a strike starting October 11 if the state-run energy giant Petrobras does not boost its latest salary offer by Wednesday, the union announced on Monday.
The oil giant and the Brazilian Oil (...)
LIMA: A Brazilian woman is to auction off her virginity to the highest bidder in a strange effort to raise money for the homeless.
The 20-year-old Catarina Migliorini said that after watching a Thomas Williams Productions documentary two years ago (...)
LIMA: Women in Brazil are livid at the continued use of their bodies to promote the country. They argue that by constantly referring to Brazilian women via their bodies, women in the country will continue to be treated as objects.
“I am just (...)
LIMA: Animal rights advocates across the globe are condemning the beginning of what Brazil's fashion industry hopes will become a trend: fur bikinis. The anger is nowhere stronger than in South America, where a group of university students in Peru (...)
SANTIAGO, Chile: Two leading Colombian rebel groups on Thursday released a joint statement reiterating their commitment to the upcoming peace talks with the central government.
The statement, dated “September” and addressed somewhere in “mountains (...)
LIMA: Peru became the 76th country to ratify the 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions and ban the use in military zones.
Ana Maria Watson, Cluster Munition Coalition member and director of ISDH (Instituto de Seguridad y Derechos Humanos), praised (...)