In 1992, Black Latin American and Caribbean women gathered in the city of Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic at the First Meeting of Black Latin American and Caribbean Women to give visibility to racism, violence, and sexism that do not respect geographical limits and plague brutally the lives of Black women around the world. This meeting made history and, already in 1992, the United Nations recognized July 25th as the International Day of Latin American and Caribbean Black Women. The tribute at that time was paid to quilombola Tereza de Benguela, who led Quilombo do Quariterê, in the current state of Mato Grosso, with mastery, a sense of justice and strategy, shortly after the death of her husband. Still feeling the absence of love, she did not allow pain to overcome her, and her inclusive leadership is recognized throughout history.

Religious diversification in Brazil has been occurring accompanied by continued evangelical growth. In the last forty years the percentage of evangelicals has increased fivefold and currently reaches 31 percent of the population over 16 years of age. At the same time, the number of Catholics has dropped significantly, and the number of "no religion" and other religions has also been growing. Adherence to the evangelical universe has grown in all social strata but is predominant at the base of the social pyramid in urban and peripheral areas. We are talking about a population that is mostly low-income, Black and female. An evangelical belt has been forming in the outskirts of Brazilian cities over the last forty years. And in this growing religious transition in Brazil, evangelicals not only stand out because of their numerical presence, but also for their religious activism. Surveys from Pew Research indicate that 60 percent of evangelicals attend church and pray daily, compared to just 23 percent of Catholics. Evangelicals also share their faith more outside of their church.

NetLab UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) is a national reference in the study of disinformation that circulates on the internet and social networks. Having carried out research on the state of digital information in Brazil for thirteen years, the Laboratory seeks to actively participate in the public debate, whether in academic fora, civil society initiatives, official activities, or with its frequent participation in Brazilian and international news.

With global temperatures breaking records year after year and wildfires, floods and extreme weather events ravaging countries across the world, there is little question that the climate emergency is the greatest threat facing the world today. The burning of fossil fuels is the leading cause of climate emissions, rightly placing the question of a global energy transition at center stage of environmental decision-making. But it is also critical to act on the second leading cause of climate change – deforestation.

In mid-June 2024, all major global press outlets reported the fact that the extreme right – or ultra-right, in the definition of some authors – made significant advances in the European elections. As a result of this progress, of the 720 vacancies available in the European Parliament, approximately 130 were allocated to politicians linked to this political field in the various organizations where they are organized.

Bill 1904/24 is another in a long list of violence perpetrated and tolerated by the Brazilian State against women and girls. It took just 24 seconds for the Chamber of Deputies to approve, as a matter of urgency, the processing of the project that aims to equate abortion performed after 22 weeks of pregnancy to the crime of simple homicide, even when the pregnancy is the result of rape, which in Brazil occurs every 8 minutes.

In this article, written for WBO, Eugênio Bucci talks about the destabilizing action of the extreme right in the information field in Brazil.

In this article, Denise Dora talks about Brazil's experience at Cedaw

Read the exclusive article by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health, Tlaleng Mofokeng (MBChB), for issue 119 of the WBO newsletter.

In this article, the US ambassador in Brasília, Elizabeth Frawley Bagley, talks about 200 Brazil-US relations

Neste artigo, embaixadora do Brasil em Washington, Maria Luiza Ribeiro Viotti, fala dos 200 de relações Brasil-EUA

In this article, Kellie Meiman Hock talks about the challenges and possibilities of economic interactions between Brazil and the USA in the last three decades

In this article, Marcos Vinicius Chiliatto from the World Bank talks about the importance of the International Development Association (IDA) in combating poverty

In this article, Pedro Abramovay analyzes the pragmatic and programmatic parallels between the presidents of Brazil and the United States in recent years.

In this article, professor James N. Green analyzes 200 years of Brazil-USA diplomatic relations.

In this article, Neno Garbers, a Brazilian who has lived in Haiti since 2012, analyzes the political crisis in the Caribbean country and questions the paths suggested by the international community

In this article, Guilherme Cezar Coelho talks about the importance of adopting legal parameters to protect artistic freedom in the Americas

In this article, Fabio de Sa e Silva talks about the 60th anniversary of the 1964 military coup in Brazil

In this article, Rafael R. Ioris talks about the 60th anniversary of the military coup of March 31, 1964 in Brazil

In this article, Jefferson Nascimento analyzes two recent sentences from the International Court of Human Rights against the Brazilian State