Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Tuesday signed a new law to expand the country’s affirmative action policies, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Teenage pregnancies in Brazil have been stubbornly high for decades, but a range of efforts to tackle this inequality are ...

BRAZIL: VICE-PRESIDENT, Dr Philip Mpango has called on nations to join forces in the fight against hunger and poverty, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...