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Brazil Editor · Joined 10 April 2013 · 122 posts

Journalist. MA in History. Born in a crossing land in the southernmost state of Brazil, always curious about stories.

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Latest posts by Fernanda Canofre

The human cost of the data center push in Latin America

While some governments are courting big tech, communities are reaping the consequences through water shortages and electricity price hikes

Written by Daria Dergacheva, Fernanda Canofre, Sydney Allen

29 April 2026

Brazil: A warning on how AI and deepfakes can become an ’excessive risk‘ to women and girls

An organization calls attention to the need for regulation amid gender violence cases in the country

Written by Fernanda Canofre

28 April 2026

‘Femicide does not start on the day of the crime’: A Brazilian researcher’s view on gender violence in her country

Brazil experienced nationwide anti-femicide protests after several brutal cases of violence against women

Written by Fernanda Canofre

12 December 2025

Brazilians take to the streets calling attention to a crisis of violence against women

Marches were organized in several cities after a number of cases linked to hatred against women

Written by Fernanda Canofre

9 December 2025

For Brazilian writer Frei Betto, the 21st century has a before and after Gaza

The Dominican friar was a key actor in the ‘Zero Hunger’ program in Brazil

Written by Fernanda Canofre

9 September 2025

Can prison inmates publish books? A denied publication took this discussion to Brazil’s Supreme Court

A man serving time was prohibited by the penitentiary director from publishing his 1,000-page memoir

Written by Brasil de Direitos

Translated by Fernanda Canofre

2 September 2025

A Black woman is elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters for the first time in 128 years

Writer Ana Maria Gonçalves is the woman who broke the ceiling to become an ‘immortal’

Written by Fernanda Canofre

25 July 2025

The story of Maria da Penha, the woman whose name was given to Brazil's domestic violence law

A survivor of domestic violence, Penha's name became synonymous with protection for women following the enactment of the law in 2006

Written by Fernanda Canofre

3 June 2025

In Brazil, a new test reveals misidentified torture victim from the dictatorship period

In April, Brazil identified two men who were buried in a mass grave used the military regime

Written by Pública - Agência de jornalismo investigativo

Translated by Fernanda Canofre

13 May 2025

In São Luís, the city known as the Brazilian Jamaica, reggae is a local identity

The capital of Maranhão, a northeastern Brazilian state, turned the Caribbean music into a local cultural movement with a twist

Written by Fernanda Canofre

12 May 2025

Brazilian trans women parliamentarians categorized as ‘male’ on their US visas

Visas issued by the US government under Donald Trump use the male term, even though the politicians' documents recognise their female gender

Written by Luís Gustavo Carmo

Translated by Fernanda Canofre

29 April 2025

Many deaths under Brazil’s military dictatorship were not politicized, says historian

Indigenous people, the LGBTQ+ population, Black people in urban areas and those living in rural areas were also impacted by human rights violations

Written by Fernanda Canofre

29 December 2024

‘I'm Still Here': The Brazilian story of forced disappearances by the military dictatorship

How to carry on when a loved one is taken one day and disappears forever?

Written by Fernanda Canofre

12 December 2024

Brazilians raise debate on reducing working hours through the ‘VAT movement’

A city councilor was elected in Rio de Janeiro after becoming known on TikTok for pushing a discussion on reducing working hours

Written by Fernanda Canofre

20 October 2024

‘The reality of women who need access to legal abortion in Brazil is one of banishment’

Debora Diniz, anthropologist and researcher, comments on the current scenario

Written by Fernanda Canofre

26 June 2024

Rains, destruction and deaths in the south of Brazil demand a new term to define a climate catastrophe

Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced in Rio Grande do Sul floods

Written by Fernanda Canofre

9 May 2024

The Indigenous Peoples Camp that calls for rights every April in Brazil

The Free Land Camp (ATL) celebrated its 20th anniversary in April

Written by Fernanda Canofre

4 May 2024

In Portugal, crowds in the streets celebrate democracy at the 50th anniversary of the Carnation Revolution

In 1974, a military insurrection ended 48 years of dictatorship in the country

Written by Fernanda Canofre, Giovana Fleck

1 May 2024

How a Brazilian journalist working in Portugal faces online hate and sees the political context

Amanda Lima reports on migrants' lives amidst the rising climate of xenophobia

Written by Fernanda Canofre

26 February 2024

The femicide of Julieta Hernández, a Venezuelan migrant in Brazil, sparks outrage across South America

'Women deserve to travel alone, we deserve to live'

Written by Gabriela Mesones Rojo, Fernanda Canofre, Andrea Paola Hernandez

17 January 2024

Violence in Brazil’s schools: ‘No attacks were planned or conceived of offline’

Brazil has seen an increase in reported school attacks

Written by Fernanda Canofre

Translated by Liam Anderson

5 December 2023

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