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The letter from São Paulo’s peripheral neighborhoods to COP30

Written by Agência Mural

Translated by Liam Anderson

3 days ago

The legacy of ‘sponge cities’ left by Chinese landscape architect Yu Kongjian

Written by Global Voices Brazil

29 September 2025

In Brazil, Romani people living in peripheral areas fight for recognition of their identities

Written by Agência Mural

Translated by Gabriela García Calderón Orbe, Benjamin Crisp

27 September 2025

For the first time in its history, Brazil sentences military officers and a former president for attempting a coup d’état

Written by Global Voices Brazil

13 September 2025

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From the Andes to the Amazon: Investigating China's climate impact in Latin America

A GV Insight

Written by Sydney Allen

3 October 2025

For Brazilian writer Frei Betto, the 21st century has a before and after Gaza

The Dominican friar was a key actor in the ‘Zero Hunger’ program in Brazil

Written by Fernanda Canofre

9 September 2025

A report shows that Trump’s move to investigate Brazil follows Big Tech’s interests

An investigation was announced with the decision to increase tariffs over Brazilian products

Written by Pública - Agência de jornalismo investigativo

Translated by Liam Anderson

4 September 2025

Can prison inmates publish books? A denied publication took this discussion to Brazil’s Supreme Court

A man serving time was prohibited by the penitentiary director from publishing his 1,000-page memoir

Written by Brasil de Direitos

Translated by Fernanda Canofre

2 September 2025

With ‘human error’ and AI, online scams in Brazil show risks are a click away

Human errors, easy passwords, and lack of security knowledge, can lead to losses

Written by Raissa Moreira

Translated by Gabriela García Calderón Orbe, Jerónimo Restrepo

31 August 2025

What Brazil’s digital fight means for free expression in the Global South

Brazil’s model of platform regulation is drawing both praise and retaliation, within and beyond its borders

Written by Guest Contributor

29 August 2025

‘Social, peripheral and photographic justice for whom?’: A Brazilian photographer asks questions

Recording memories and publishing stories from the urban peripheries is to resist erasure by the established art market

Written by Agência Mural

Translated by Liam Anderson

28 August 2025

A Brazilian influencer warns how social media algorithms may help predators target children

Comment sections on photos of children are becoming meeting spots for pedophiles online, influencer claims

Written by Global Voices Brazil

26 August 2025

When digital democracy disappears, so does the power of the people

When civil society is pushed offline, what’s lost isn’t just voices, but history, memory, resistance, and possibility

Written by Muhammed Bello Buhari

23 August 2025

A Black woman is elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters for the first time in 128 years

Writer Ana Maria Gonçalves is the woman who broke the ceiling to become an ‘immortal’

Written by Fernanda Canofre

25 July 2025

In Brazil, Black boys dream of being online influencers. Why?

It is ‘a reaction to the lack of opportunities in professions such as science, engineering, or journalism’

Written by Rede JP

Translated by Liam Anderson

23 July 2025

Hong Kong workers strike against the exploitation of Keeta, a food delivery platform

Soon after Deliveroo was squeezed out of the HK market, Keeta has started cutting costs to maximize its profit.

Written by Oiwan Lam

14 June 2025

‘What is happening in Gaza is a genocide’: Brazil’s President Lula da Silva reinforces criticism of Israel in South America

In the Southern Cone, governments are split between criticism and full support of the Israeli government over the war

Written by Global Voices Brazil

9 June 2025

‘I sold my iris; now what?’: What drives Brazilians to hand over their unique, personal data

Residents of São Paulo say they were attracted to the scheme because of payments in cryptocurrency

Written by Agência Mural

Translated by Liam Anderson

7 June 2025

From barren land to thriving forest: The story of photographer Sebastião Salgado’s Instituto Terra in Brazil

‘It is a model, a pilot for Brazil, and I would say it might even be a pilot for the world. ..’

Written by Ana Cavalcanti

5 June 2025

The story of Maria da Penha, the woman whose name was given to Brazil's domestic violence law

A survivor of domestic violence, Penha's name became synonymous with protection for women following the enactment of the law in 2006

Written by Fernanda Canofre

3 June 2025

In Brazil, a new test reveals misidentified torture victim from the dictatorship period

In April, Brazil identified two men who were buried in a mass grave used the military regime

Written by Pública - Agência de jornalismo investigativo

Translated by Fernanda Canofre

13 May 2025

In São Luís, the city known as the Brazilian Jamaica, reggae is a local identity

The capital of Maranhão, a northeastern Brazilian state, turned the Caribbean music into a local cultural movement with a twist

Written by Fernanda Canofre

12 May 2025

When the ICE agent at the airport echoes Trump’s motto: A Brazilian journalist at the US border

A textbook example of how the current administration treats certain travelers

Written by Agencia Publica

5 May 2025

What young Indigenous Brazilians think about climate change

The sun burns, the rivers run dry, and crops disappear: the climate crisis is rewriting daily life for Indigenous people

Written by Pública - Agência de jornalismo investigativo

Translated by Liam Anderson

4 May 2025

Brazilian trans women parliamentarians categorized as ‘male’ on their US visas

Visas issued by the US government under Donald Trump use the male term, even though the politicians' documents recognise their female gender

Written by Luís Gustavo Carmo

Translated by Fernanda Canofre

29 April 2025

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