Descendants of slaves still suffer in Brazil
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PARACATU, Brazil  - Moacir de Mello's small farm is squeezed on one side by bulldozers belonging to a Canadian mining firm and on the other by a rancher trying to make him leave. "We're locked up like a pig in a sty," his wife says.
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Human Rights Watch on the frontlines of the child labor battle.
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Poor Brazilians who were dragooned into harvesting rubber during World War II are seeking recognition and compensation.
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A growing number of Brazil's urban poor are seeing Pentecostalism as a way to rise above the scourge of gang violence.
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Bodies of African migrants wash up on the beaches and those who survive the ocean voyage complain of discrimination and police harassment. This is not Italy or Spain, but the small central African country of Gabon.
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BARQUISIMETO, Venezuela  - It was exactly what Brazilian fans, frustrated by their team's emphasis on efficiency and winning at all costs, had been longing to hear from their national team coach.
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A family living in Swansea seek clarification over whether they will be deported to Brazil.
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SANGRADOURO INDIAN RESERVE, Brazil -- When the sun sinks behind the palm and mango trees, candlelight flickers throughout a tiny village of thatched huts where about 100 Xavante Indians live.
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Results of a DNA test on Friday revealed why leftist rebels failed to deliver this week on their promise to free a 3-year-old boy born in captivity: Little Emmanuel has spent the last two years not in a jungle rebel camp, but in a Bogota foster home.
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The kidnapping of a Brazilian football star&#39;s mother shows the dark underbelly of Brazil&#39;s beautiful game and its ransom-fuelled snatch squads.
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CAETES, Brazil  - A woman emerges from the thick  scrub with a bundle of firewood on her back and walks down a  dirt path to her small farm in Caetes, a poor and remote  district in northeast Brazil.
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Child workers have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery.
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HELSINKI, Nov 5 (IPS) - In Brazil rubber tappers living in the Amazon  forest are locked in deadly conflicts with timber loggers and big  agribusiness companies, with up to ten activists killed every  year, NGOs working in the country say.
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In Latin America, the memory of the "disappeared" never went away. In the United States, they were hardly ever known.
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RIO CUEIRAS, Brazil  - Brazil's center-left  government will unseal archives of the country's 1964-85  military dictatorship in an effort to resolve a painful chapter  in the nation's recent history, the justice minister said on  Tuesday.
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Eighteen years ago, Tony Akeem organized a ceremony in New York City to honor the millions of Africans who died crossing the Atlantic during the slave trade. Similar observances have since spread around the world.
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BRASILIA, Brazil  - Newly surfaced photographs of  a victim of Brazil's 1964-85 military rule have put the  government in a quandary -- how to avoid riling the armed  forces while satisfying rights groups' demands for answers  about the country's "Dirty War."