According to the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef), 63% of Brazil's boys and girls live in poverty, which is tantamount to around 32 million children and adolescents, Agencia Brasil reported.

which is called Bolsa Familia (Portuguese for Family Allowance), helps 21 million families in Brazil or about a quarter of the population. To be eligible, a family must live below the poverty line ...

Brazil celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Bolsa Família Program (BFP), one of the world's largest conditional cash transfer initiatives. A new study published in The Lancet Public Health shows ...

In Brazil’s Amazon, people are trapped in a vicious cycle in which deforestation begets poverty, and poverty begets deforestation. Already, more than a fifth of the country’s rainforest has ...

The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child on Monday released its review of Brazil's fifth to seventh periodic reports on state programmes under the Convention on the Rights of the Child and its ...

The proposed “billionaire tax” is still up in the air, therefore. But if it was put through, how could that extra £190bn help alleviate poverty or climate change? Here’s how a global “billionaire tax” ...

Extreme poverty in the region still affected 10.6% of the region's population. Excluding Brazil, Latam's poverty ratio would have stood at 28.4%, closer to the 2022 figure. "The decrease in ...

A key highlight is Brazil’s proposed Global Alliance Against Hunger, aimed at reducing hunger and poverty, addressing migration crises, and fostering international collaboration. Accessed at ...

VICE President, Dr Philip Mpango has called for strengthened international cooperation in addressing hunger, poverty and ...

Brazil’s government previously stressed that Lula’s launch of the global alliance against hunger and poverty on Monday was as important as the final declaration. As of Monday, 82 nations had ...

Brazil’s President Lula discusses working with Africa on food security at the 2nd Brazil-Africa Dialogue, joined by Angola’s ...