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Damares Alves, Brazil’s minister for women, the family and human rights, has inspired a new generation of conservative Christian women to run for public office
The report reveals meetings involving the representatives from other areas of the US Government, such as the Treasury, with the new Justice and Security Minister in the first weeks of his tenure, intended to “deepen Brazil’s legal cooperation with the United States”
The Brazilian state could organize an effective response to the COVID-19 pandemic – but not with Jair Bolsonaro as president, argues Vladimir Safatle, a philosopher and professor at the Universidade de São Paulo
With the government awol, the battle against fake news in the favelas and urban periphery
An exclusive survey reveals an explosion in requests since 2019 and lists the potential beneficiaries with the most requests for authorization to mine on indigenous lands
In 2017, Brazilian authorities decided to ban paraquat because of its links to Parkinson’s disease. But since then, imports have increased, and restrictions have been relaxed due to pressure from foreign chemical companies
Poor farmers and settlers in the Amazon are under attack as never before
The anthropologist Eduardo Viveiros de Castro discusses indigenous resistance in the Amazon, the indigenous leader Raoni Metuktire, and his pessimism about the climate crisis
In Baixada Fluminense, a new round of illegal land sales is under way
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
