In the leadup to the annual United Nations climate conference, the U.N. Development Programme has released new data about how ...

Renata Alves* remembers the judgemental glances people gave her as she walked the narrow alleys of her favela in the southern ...

Few outsiders have seen what happens inside Brazil’s favelas neighborhoods where crime, poverty, and fear collide. This report follows a military police unit as they patrol the slums of São Paulo, ...

This paper examines multidimensional poverty in Brazil in 2000 and 2010, based on the microdata of the Demographic Censuses. Our analysis is disaggregated into five classes of municipalities according ...

Bill Gates is calling for shifting climate change focus from reducing carbon emissions to fighting poverty and preventing ...

With global climate talks scheduled shortly at CoP-30 in Belém, Brazil, a new UN report delivers a stark warning: the world’s ...

Brazil, which is hosting the 30th U.N. Climate Change Conference this month, wants to show the world it is a leader in ...

The partnership between Brazil and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) exemplifies how a future of peace, ...

HE the Minister of State for International Co-operation Dr Maryam bint Ali bin Nasser al-Misnad inaugurated Monday the First Leaders’ Meeting of the Global Alliance ...

As world leaders come to Brazil for climate talks, people like Cassiano are the ones with the most at stake. Poor communities are often more vulnerable to hazards like extreme heat and supersized ...