View from Brazil

View from Brazil

Gaza is another reason for division in polarized Brazil. By Leonardo Sakamoto.

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NI 548 - South Africa 30 years later - March, 2024
Photo: Lalo de Almeida

Southern Exposure: Lalo de Almeida

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

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NI 544 - Palestine - July, 2023
Attack on Brazilian Democracy (Brazil).Illustration: Thiago Lucas

Open Window

Attack on Brazilian Democracy by Thiago Lucas (Brazil).

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NI 542 - A world to win - March, 2023
Every new member of Brazil’s state assemblies receives a certificate in a formal government ceremony, but Marina dos Santos opted to hold a parallel ceremony in which she would be presented with her mandate by electors.Photo: Marcio Menasce

Landless legislators

Report on the landless workers’ movement in Brazil by Constance Malleret.

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NI 542 - A world to win - March, 2023
Candomblé members dance and sing at a religious festival in Saubara, Brazil, 12 June 2020.Photo: Thales Antônio/Alamy

A new era?

Report on Brazil by Raphael Tsavkko Garcia.

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NI 541 - The cost of living crisis - January, 2023
TIAA member Nancy Romer takes part in a protest outside the company’s headquarters in 2017. ‘TIAA has become a leader in in greenwashing investments that are harmful to the climate and communities, their land deals have exacerbated human rights violations, contributed to environmental destruction and enabled unethical or illegal business practices,’ Doug Hertzler, a senior policy analyst for ActionAid USA, told New Internationalist. ‘We are building on this momentum to continue pushing TIAA to stop buying up farmland and repair the damage they have caused.’Photo: Brandon Wu/ActionAid

Nice little earner

What connects the retirement savings of US teachers with inflating land and food prices in Brazil? Maria Luisa Mendonça and Daniela Stefan explain.

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NI 540 - Land rights - November, 2022
Photo: Cassandra Mello/Terra Floresta Filmes

The Interview: Mauricio Ye’kuana

Graeme Green speaks to the Indigenous activist about the dangerous fight to protect his people’s land from destructive mining in the Brazilian Amazon.

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NI 539 - Railways - September, 2022
Photo: Ana Caroline de Lima

Southern Exposure: Ana Caroline de Lima

Highlighting the work of artists and photographers from the Majority World.

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NI 539 - Railways - September, 2022
The faces of murdered militants. This demonstration took place in São Paulo on 27 July 2011, in front of a court where retired army colonel Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra was being tried as part of a lawsuit brought by the family of journalist Luiz Eduardo Merlino. Ustra led DOI-CODI from 1970 to 1974 – Merlino was tortured and killed at the centre in July 1971.Photo: Raphael Tsavkko Garcia

The story of the bones

Decades on, the relatives of those disappeared under Brazil’s military dictatorship are finally getting some answers about what happened to their loved ones, but calls for justice are going unanswered. Raphael Tsavkko Garcia reports.

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NI 539 - Railways - September, 2022
Photo: Brazil Government/Alamy

Hall of Infamy

President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro.

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NI 536 - Abolition - March, 2022
Bad taste

Bad taste

iFood riders call for better pay and the end of unfair dismissal.

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NI 534 - The future of work - November, 2021
Photo: Ricardo Stuckert/Instituto Lula

The Interview: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Brazil’s former leader is the frontrunner in polls for the 2022 presidential election, well ahead of Jair Bolsonaro.

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NI 533 - Food justice: who gets to eat? - September, 2021
View from Brazil

View from Brazil

From slavery to mass deforestation, Leonardo Sakamoto highlights the devastating impact of cattle ranching in Brazil.

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NI 533 - Food justice: who gets to eat? - September, 2021
Illustration: Emma Peer

Seriously?

Husna Ara reports on a social swindle in Brazil.

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
View from Brazil

View from Brazil

Leonardo Sakamoto on hideous wealth – and poverty. 

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NI 532 - Courage and terror in Myanmar - July, 2021
View from Brazil

View from Brazil

Lula is back in the game. After a court annulled all the sentences against him, Brazil’s ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is back in the running for the top job, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

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NI 531 - Vaccine equality - May, 2021
View from Brazil

View from Brazil

While women in Argentina have won the right to abortion, in Brazil even child survivors of rape may be forced to give birth, writes Leonardo Sakamoto.

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NI 530 - Democracy on the edge - March, 2021
Amazon exposed

Amazon exposed

Report on the exploitation of the Amazon by Beatriz Miranda.

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NI 526 - The Kurds - betrayed again - July, 2020
Lazinho and Lucas di Fiori.Photo: Alessio Perrone

The Interview: Lazinho and Lucas di Fiori

Lazinho and Lucas di Fiori of Brazil’s famous Banda Olodum talk to Alessio Perrone about 40 years of drumming up change.

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NI 525 - The fight for clean air - May, 2020
View from Brazil

View from Brazil

Leonardo Sakomoto tackles a topic close to his heart: modern-day slavery.

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NI 523 - Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone - January, 2020

Articles in this category displayed as a table:

Article title From magazine Publication date
South Africa 30 years later March, 2024
Palestine July, 2023
A world to win March, 2023
A world to win March, 2023
The cost of living crisis January, 2023
Land rights November, 2022
Railways September, 2022
Railways September, 2022
Railways September, 2022
Abolition March, 2022
The future of work November, 2021
Food justice: who gets to eat? September, 2021
Food justice: who gets to eat? September, 2021
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
Courage and terror in Myanmar July, 2021
Vaccine equality May, 2021
Democracy on the edge March, 2021
The Kurds - betrayed again July, 2020
The fight for clean air May, 2020
Borders - Freedom to move, for everyone January, 2020
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