This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers June ...

To the sound of traditional musical instruments, songs and prayers, around 8,000 Indigenous women from the six Brazilian biomes took part in the III March of Indigenous Women Sept. 11-13 in the ...

By Felipe Duran For more than 12 years, the government of Viana municipality in Brazil’s Maranhão state dumped used needles ...

Anna Lucia Amorim’s life was turned upside by breast cancer and the 63-year-old from Rio de Janeiro state fell into a deep ...

Brazil has auctioned off several land and offshore potential oil sites near the Amazon River, aiming to expand production in ...

Many Indigenous families around the world say hospital staff often don’t understand their cultures or even give them basic ...

On Oct. 6, 256 Indigenous people were elected mayors, vice mayors and city councilors in all Brazilian regions, an 8% increase compared with 236 elected in the 2020 ballot.

A UN expert Wednesday reprimanded Brazil over its adoption of a controversial legal doctrine to limit the land rights of Indigenous peoples. UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Indigenous Peoples ...

As part of a delegation to Brazil, I saw how our countries’ respective struggles to maintain and expand reproductive justice ...

More women are connecting environmental degradation with attacks on women's rights, seeing both as rooted in similar values. They’re drawing on personal experiences and reams of research to make their ...

In Brazil, abortion is legally restricted to cases of rape, life-threatening risks to the pregnant woman or if the fetus has no functioning brain.

Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Tuesday signed a new law to expand the country's affirmative action policies, increasing the quota for government jobs reserved for Blacks from 20% to ...