Brazil’s prisons are a human-rights disaster. Detainees—even those who have not been convicted of a crime—are routinely held in overcrowded, violent, and disease-ridden cells. Overcrowding in the ...
Since 2010, with World Bank support, the State of Pernambuco has enrolled over 100,000 students in schools, expanded water rights by almost 60 percent, and implemented a flood monitoring alert system ...