Brazil

Articles

Eine Hand hält eine runde Fruchtschale mit Blättern und Paranüssen.

CrowdStrike and Microsoft: What can we learn about what no one is willing to question?

Published: 11 September 2024

Commentary

In the early morning of July 19th, 2024, an immense IT failure caused damage around the world, with repercussions that will be felt for months, resulting in, according to some specialists, the greatest cybernetic interruption in history.

Dossiers

Photo series: The Cruzada São Sebastião in Rio de Janeiro

Published: 1 June 2020

Photo series

Thousands of people live cheek by jowl in the Cruzada São Sebastião housing project. The coronavirus pandemic has hit them especially hard. Most of them were already living under tough economic conditions and now many of them have lost their jobs. The Afro-Brazilian population has been disproportionately affected by the virus, with racism and inequality thrown into even sharper relief by the pandemic. This is also the experience of the residents of Cruzada São Sebastião.

Publications

Illustration of a world map on a lily pad with Amazon animals, plants, buildings, and a boat. Text is overlaid on the image

Brazilian Amazon Atlas

Published: 10 June 2025

Atlas

Since its colonization, the Amazon region has served as a projection surface for foreign ideas and desires. With the Brazilian Amazon Atlas, we want to deconstruct common stereotypes about the region - and show it from the perspective of its diverse inhabitants.

Guide for journalists and media professionals: Human rights violations in the Olympic city

Published: 15 August 2016

The Brazilian non-governmental organization Justiça Global, partner organization of the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, released this publication, that intends to be a tool that allows journalists to know the other side of this mega event, which resulted in the aggravation of processes of segregation, control and privatization of public spaces, and extermination of the black, poor population in the city.

REDD in Brazil - Two case studies on early forest carbon offset projects

Published: 8 January 2015

This case study explores the controversies that arise when conservation groups or specialist companies, often supported by international agencies like the World Bank, arrive with their forest carbon pilot initiatives.