The International Trade Union Confederation’s (ITUC) latest annual survey on workers’ rights around the world is published on 7 [...]Read the full article
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Despite significant progress at both a national and international level, the socio-economic status of domestic workers in Brazil is still [...]Read the full article
“We are taking action now because we want to ensure that all the women and girls who want to follow in our footsteps will have the means to achieve [...]Read the full article
“This is the social empowerment of the small farmers. It is both economic, helping them to become more competitive and develop their business, and [...]Read the full article
“Rather than focussing their efforts on preventing, investigating and prosecuting homicides, prisons are being filled with minor [...]Read the full article
“It’s not only the landowners attacking us now, but our own government.”Read the full article
“Profound changes are being put in place in our society and our economy that will have consequences for decades to come.”Read the full article
“The state is still encouraging the use of asbestos today, through its programmes to build social housing.”Read the full article
Brazil holds the unenviable record of having the highest number of homophobic and transphobic murders in the world.Read the full article
“Exile during the Brazilian dictatorship was a wrench for the workers concerned, but it was also a time of rich experience, of discovering the [...]Read the full article
During the Brazilian dictatorship of 1964-1985 “companies and the dictatorial regime worked hand in hand, within and outside the factories, to prevent [...]Read the full article
“The pace of work is incompatible with workers’ health”Read the full article
