Around the world, politicians, backed by powerful corporations, are presenting the public with false choices between ...

Tens of thousands of women in cities across Brazil have rallied against gender-based violence amid record numbers of female ...

Brazil’s Senate approved an environmental licensing bill that could expedite major infrastructure projects, including paving ...

Today’s World Cup draw determined which teams will face off in the group stage, and also featured the awarding of the newly created FIFA Peace Prize to President Donald Trump. Follow live updates.

Talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives. These palms were introduced ...

The climate crisis, marked among other consequences by rising temperatures, has also affected the Brazilian prison system, ...

Outlets reported U.S. diplomats are now required "to scrutinize the prevalence of abortion and gender-transition surgery among children." ...

While the steamy rainforests of Brazil are far from Alaska’s arctic, the challenges of climate change discussed at the U.N. climate conference brought the two closer together.

A new quantitative study from National Observatory on Violence Against Educators represents one of the most comprehensive efforts to date to measure the nature and scale of censorship and harassment ...

Distant gunfire rang out as Douglas da Silva dropped off a food delivery on October 28 and headed home to his apartment on the north side of Rio de Janeiro.

U.S. officials will consider enforcement of affirmative action policies and state subsidies for abortion as infringements when compiling the State Department’s annual human rights report, as ...

(Belém) – Brazil’s Congress should reject proposals to dismantle environmental licensing requirements and to revoke a plan to protect human rights defenders, Human Rights Watch said today. Instead, it ...