Últimas notícias Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics

Human Rights

Brazil still struggling to end child labor

This Tuesday (12), on the World Day Against Child Labor, Brazil’s National Forum for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labor launched a campaign entitled “Not Protecting Childhood Means Condemning the Future,” in partnership with the country’s Prosecution Service for Lab

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Economy

Some 12.7 million Brazilians unemployed in October

The unemployment rate in the three-month period ending in October this year was reported at 12.2%—down 0.6 percentage points from the previous quarter. The number of jobless people in October reached 12.7 million.

General

Women in charge of 37.3% of homes in Brazil

Women were the head of 73.3% of Brazilian households in 2010, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics announced today (Oct 31) in a study entitled Statistics on Gender – An Analysis of the Results of the 2010 Demographic Census.

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