Brazil

In many different countries, women are coming together to organise for a fairer world. Women’s organisations focus on many different aspects of women’s lives – health, income generation, employment rights, community activities – but they share a concern to counter the disadvantages experienced by women as a result of gender constraints. The eight women whose […]

Based on Oxfam’s 20 years of development experience in Brazil, A Mask Called Progress examines the conflicts that have brought many traditional communities to the edge of extinction, and threaten to destroy one of the richest natural environments on earth. In their own words, the people of the Brazilian rainforest – rubber-tappers and indigenous people […]

Sugar, tea coffee and palm oil are the backbone of many Third World economies. But the processing and marketing of these commodities is controlled by the rich industrialised nations. This unequal exchange leaves Third World producers highly vulnerable to market conditions – and it is poor people who are hardest hit.