Brazil taken before Inter-American Court for police violence twenty years ago
The Inter-American Court of Human Rights will assess a complaint brought against Brazil for police violence. The case refers to...
February 22, 2021Section
Society
Daily Interest News from Rio de Janeiro and Brazil
Fleeing the pandemic in Brazil, Haitians are stopped at Peruvian border
Over 400 people displaced by unemployment, fear of the covid-19 pandemic in Brazilian territory and dengue fever have been stranded...
February 22, 2021
Brazilian minister announces plan to fight feminicide in March
Damares Alves, Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights, talked about her portfolio's main achievements in the year 2021 and...
February 22, 2021
Brazilian city goes into complete lockdown to curb covid-19 spread
From noon yesterday, February 21st and until 11:59 PM next Tuesday February 23rd, the city of Araraquara, in the São...
February 22, 2021
Ceagesp, the city that feeds Brazil
Nothing is small when the subject is the Companhia de Entrepostos e Armazéns Gerais de São Paulo (São Paulo's Company...
February 22, 2021
Brazil exceeds 10 million Covid-19 cases, with 1,432 deaths in past 24 hours (February 18th)
The country has registered 10,028,644 infections and 243,610 Covid-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic, according to the media...
February 19, 2021
LATAM airlines bans passengers wearing masks with exhalation valves
LATAM airlines has decided to ban certain types of face masks on its flights, following recommendations from organizations such as...
February 19, 2021
Indigenous villagers in Brazil refuse vaccine shot for fear it contains the Mark of the Beast
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil should have already immunized 431,983 indigenous people against Covid-19. Despite including indigenous villagers among...
February 18, 2021
World’s tropical forests and people imperiled by legal rollbacks under COVID-19
Threats against indigenous people and rainforests have risen during the coronavirus pandemic as governments have rolled back social and environmental...
February 18, 2021