WHEN you walk down the Avenida Presidente Wilson in Rio de Janeiro, you pass by a small, graceful building which we call the Petit Trianon. Brazilians are proud of the edifice because it is the home ...

On February 23, Brazilian authorities rescued 207 victims in conditions akin to modern slavery in Bento Gonçalves, Rio Grande do Sul. The men had been harvesting grapes for a service provider to ...

SÃO PAULO — As the first quarter of the 21st century drew to a close, justice prevailed: 163 Chinese workers were rescued from the construction site for a factory for Chinese electric vehicle giant ...

A government raid on an illegal gold mine in northern Brazil freed 39 people working in conditions of slavery and revealed once again the challenges that the country’s anti-slavery mechanisms must ...

This post is part of the Council on Foreign Relations’ blog series on human trafficking, in which CFR fellows and other leading experts assess new approaches to improve U.S. and global efforts to curb ...

“I want to be the painter of my country,” wrote Tarsila do Amaral (1886–1973) in 1923. Born at the end of the 19th century to a family of coffee plantation owners in São Paulo, Tarsila―as she is ...

"An exploration of the innovative, quintessentially Brazilian painter who merged modernism with the brilliant energy and culture of her homeland Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973) was a central figure at ...