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In a letter to Lula, female federal deputies from many parties ask him for a Black woman at Brazil’s Supreme Court

With the vacant seat left by Minister Rosa Weber at the Supreme Court (STF, in Portuguese) on Friday (29), political and social players intensified the campaign to convince President Lula (Workers’ Party) to appoint a Black woman to the Court. A letter released this weekend and signed by 25 federal deputies pressured the president to […]

Brazil’s largest city staged a protest for the right of abortion

A traditional stage for protests in Brazil’s largest city, Paulista Avenue, downtown São Paulo, received protesters late Thursday afternoon (28). With green scarves and posters, they marked the Latin American and Caribbean Day to Fight for the Legalization of Abortion. The demonstration in São Paulo was accompanied by at least 20 others in various Brazilian cities. […]

Quilombola community "besieged" by fires and gunshots after Justice ruled in its favor

The vegetation surrounding some of the houses where 50 families live in Quilombo Rio Preto, in the town of Lagoa do Tocantins, Tocantins state, was set on fire. Days after that, on September 23, four gunshots from a car scared the community. In the first hours of Monday (25), the straw that covers one of […]

Israel undercover forces kill Palestinian child after he discovers operation in Jenin

Undercover Israeli Special Forces killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy when he saw them sneaking into the Jenin refugee camp during an operation, making it the latest arbitrary execution of a Palestinian by Occupation forces this year. In a report yesterday by Defence for Children Palestine (DCIP), the Palestinian sector of Geneva-based Defence for Children International […]

Israel Prime Minister Netanyahu to visit Turkiye - President Erdogan

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will visit Turkiye, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. I told him (Netanyahu), ‘We are expecting you first, and then I will pay a visit to Israel with my delegation’, and we agreed on that Erdogan told reporters during his visit to New York. “We will […]

Turkiye Erdogan says he does not agree with others' negative approach toward Putin

Turkish President, Tayyip Erdogan, said he does not agree with the negative approach other leaders are showing towards his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, Turkish broadcasters quoted him as saying on Thursday, Reuters reports. Speaking to reporters in New York after attending the United Nations General Assembly, Erdogan said Russia was not a country that could […]

Brazil stopped deforestation in the Amazon, but 'the point of no return' is still close

According to Brazil’s National Institute for Space Research (INPE, in Portuguese), deforestation of the Amazon rainforest fell by 42.5% in the first semester of this year compared to the same period of 2022. The numbers continued to drop in the second semester when the dry period boosts fires. In July, deforestation fell by 66%. Still to be […]

Brazil Without Hunger: know the country’s new governmental program

Strengthening the new Family Grant (“Bolsa Família”, in Portuguese) program, the active search of people living under vulnerable conditions and boosting professional training and productive inclusion: these are some of the strategies adopted by the federal government in the Brazil Without Hunger Plan. It intends to get Brazil out of the Map of Hunger until […]

Congress’s rural caucus try to be faster than the Supreme Court and make the timeframe thesis into law; Senate committee votes on Wednesday (23)

On this Wednesday afternoon (23), the Congress’s rural caucus will try to vote at the Senate Agriculture and Agrarian Reform Commission (CRA, in Portuguese) on the proposal that legalizes the so-called timeframe thesis. The group, which has 50 of the 81 senators, is speeding up the process to be ahead of the Federal Supreme Court […]

Brazilian Supreme Court authorizes breach of former President Bolsonaro's banking and tax secrecy

The Minister of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes authorized, this Thursday, August 17th, the breach of banking and tax secrecy of Jair Bolsonaro (Liberal Party) and his wife, Michelle Bolsonaro, with the aim of identifying whether the money acquired from the sale of jewelry given as gifts to the Brazilian Presidency was […]

Hacker suspected of invading Brazilian National Council of Justice's system testifies this Thursday

Hacker Walter Delgatti Neto, arrested on the 2nd of August by the Brazilian Federal Police (PF), testifies to the Joint Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPMI), which investigates the coup acts of January 8, this Thursday, August 17th, from 9:00 am (Brasília time). He is the subject of an investigation into the insertion of 11 release […]

BdF Explains | What is the relation between the food we eat and land occupations?

Where does the food consumed in Brazil come from? What disputes are behind each healthy food for it to reach – or not – the population’s table? Unlike the flashy advertisements in Brazil saying that “agro is pop” and produces “the wealth of Brazil”, agribusiness – whose occupied area and profit grow more each day […]

El expresidente brasileño Bolsonaro habría vendido joyas regaladas por delegaciones extranjeras

Esta semana, Jair Bolsonaro volvió al centro de los reflectores luego de que un informe de la Policía Federal brasileña mostrara la presunta participación del expresidente en un esquema de venta de regalos recibidos por delegaciones extranjeras, como los juegos de joyas recibidos en Arabia Saudita.  La evidencia llevó a la policía a pedir al […]

Former Brazilian president, Bolsonaro would have sold jewelry gifted by foreign governments

Last week, Jair Bolsonaro (Liberal Party) returned to the spotlight after a Federal Police (PF) report showed the former president’s alleged involvement in a scheme to sell gifts received by foreign delegations, such as jewelry sets from Saudi Arabia. The evidence led the Federal Police to ask the Federal Supreme Court (STF), last Friday, August […]

Accusations against MST made at the CPI this Wednesday (9) are fragile and without proof, says movement in note

After the episode in which former members of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) made accusations with no proof about the entity in the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) that investigates the MST in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies, the organization issued a note denying the accusations, criticizing the “fragility of the complaints” and stating that […]

Participation of black women in Brazilian politics increases, but violence persists

As a result of the struggles of black women, Brazil elected a record number of declared black women to the Chamber of Deputies in the 2022 elections. In all, 91 female federal deputies were elected, the largest representation of black or brown women in the history of the Brazilian parliament. Despite the expressive number, the […]

42% reduction in the deforestation of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest indicates a downward trend

Data released this Thursday, July 27, by the Fundação SOS Mata Atlântica show that deforestation in the biome fell by 42% between January and May this year. The deforested area was 7,088 hectares in the first five months of 2023, against 12,166 hectares registered in the same period of 2022. The data is in the […]

Sinéad O’Connor’s controversial career: Calling out the Pope on ‘SNL’, trauma rehab and more

Drake hangs with no less than ‘20 women’ at NYC hotspot after concert

July 26, 2023 | 5:20pm Drake has been hanging out at Mamo three nights in a row.WireImage Table for 21? Drake was partying in town for his “It’s All a Blur” tour at Madison Square Garden and Brooklyn’s Barclays Center — and he hit the same hotspot three nights in a row, we hear. The […]

Lula sanctions laws to restrict civilian weapons and reinforce security in the Amazon

Last Friday, July 21, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Workers’ Party) sanctioned a package of public security measures, named the Security Action Program (PAS). The package, articulated by the Ministry of Justice, includes, among other measures, a new decree that restricts civilian weapons, new police bases in the Legal Amazon, a bill still […]