Brazil
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Brazil's rank movement over the last 30 days
Score Analysis
Analysis of Brazil's policy signalling profile
Brazil's composite score of 61.85 places it at the 13th position globally, reflecting a high level of policy signalling intensity in the context of Western-style progressive policies. The country's legislative and regulatory activism is notably strong, with a score of 72.42, driving the overall assessment upward. This indicates a robust framework for policy enforcement and activism, particularly in areas such as LGBTQIA+ rights and women's rights. Despite its high rank, Brazil's scores in other dimensions like media and platform moderation (57.92) and education and curriculum signalling (58.91) are moderately high, suggesting a balance in policy signalling across different areas without extreme overregulation.
The dimension scores highlight varying levels of signalling intensity across Brazil's policy landscape. The speech and expression climate and corporate/investor signalling scores are relatively balanced at 61.50 and 63.09, respectively, indicating consistent engagement with institutional diversity and expressions of corporate social responsibility. The protest and activism salience dimension, at 61.39, aligns closely with Brazil's overall signalling intensity, showing a vibrant civil society that participates actively in policy dialogues. The slightly lower scores in institutional DEI policy intensity (58.77) and media moderation suggest room for increased focus in these areas, though they remain aligned with the country's overall policy approach.
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Recent Events
Events that influenced this country's score
Air France 2009 crash verdict sparks mixed emotions among families
The Brazilian head of a victims’ association for the 2009 crash of Flight 447 from Rio to Paris said that justice has yet to be served in France’s worst aviation crash after a Paris appeals court found Airbus and Air France guilty of manslaughter. Air France and Airbus, two of France’s most emblematic companies, said in separate statements that they would appeal Thursday’s ruling, potentially prolonging the legal battle for years. Brazilian Nelson Faria Marinho, who lost his son in the crash...
Air France and Airbus guilty of corporate manslaughter for 2009 plane crash
Firms given maximum fine of €225,000 each and are expected to appeal after lower court had cleared them A Paris appeals court has found Airbus and Air France guilty of corporate manslaughter over the 2009 Rio-Paris plane crash that killed 228 passengers and crew. The verdict is the latest milestone in a legal marathon involving two of France’s most emblematic companies and families of the mainly French, Brazilian and German victims of France’s worst air disaster. Continue reading...
Paris court finds Airbus, Air France guilty in 2009 crash that killed 228
A Paris appeal court on Thursday found Airbus and Air France guilty of corporate manslaughter over the 2009 Rio-Paris plane crash that killed 228 passengers and crew in France’s worst air disaster. The verdict is the latest milestone in a legal marathon involving two of France’s most emblematic companies and relatives of the mainly French, Brazilian and German victims. Relatives of some of the 228 passengers and crew who died when the Airbus A330 vanished in darkness during an Atlantic storm...
Jailed banker ties roil Flavio Bolsonaro’s Brazil presidential hopes
Brazil’s right-wing presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro was riding high in the polls until the news broke of his ties to a banker jailed over a multimillion-dollar fraud scandal. The 45-year-old senator had been polling neck-and-neck with 80-year-old President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who is expected to seek a fourth term in presidential elections in October. But a change may be under way following the publication of an audio recording by investigative outlet The Intercept in which...
Why was Neymar angry at his substitution and will he play in the World Cup?
Brazil's leading goal scorer was left fuming at a substitution days before their World Cup squad announcement.
Tape shows Bolsonaro son asking jailed banker for $26.8m to fund film on father
Revelation seen as serious blow to candidacy of Flávio Bolsonaro, Brazil’s leading rightwing presidential hopeful Flávio Bolsonaro, Brazil’s leading rightwing presidential hopeful, has been caught on tape asking a banker accused of corruption for $26.8m (£20m) to fund a film about his father, the former president Jair Bolsonaro. The leaked voice memos and text messages were published on Wednesday by the Intercept Brasil, and later acknowledged by Flávio Bolsonaro, a far-right senator who is tied in polls with President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ahead of October’s election. Continue reading...
Ancelotti close to extending Brazil contract as World Cup beckons
Brazil’s Atlantic forest records lowest deforestation in 40 years
Environmentalists hail decline but warn weakened laws could reverse gains Brazil’s Atlantic forest, the country’s most threatened biome, last year recorded its lowest level of deforestation since monitoring began 40 years ago, a new report shows. The forest is Brazil’s most populous biome, and home to 80% of the population and major cities such as Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. In 2025 it recorded 8,658 hectares of deforestation, marking the first time it has fallen below 10,000 hectares since 1985. Continue reading...
‘The problem is not the antibiotics’: Animal welfare groups react angrily to Brazilian meat ban
Inhumane farming is a bigger problem than antibiotics, experts say, after Brazil meat ban.
Official marking of land for Brazil’s uncontacted Kawahiva people begins after 27-year wait
Demarcation of 410,000 hectares of territory is intended to protect the Amazonian community from farming, illegal mining and logging More than 25 years after the existence of one of the Amazon’s most vulnerable nomadic hunter-gatherer communities was confirmed, the Brazilian government has begun demarcating the Pardo River Kawahiva Indigenous territory, giving greater protection to the uncontacted people. The demarcation of the 410,000-hectare (1m-acre) territory located between the states of Mato Grosso and Amazonas in north-west Brazil, was confirmed by the National Indigenous Peoples’ Foundation (Funai) last week. But the process remains fraught, with legal challenges from groups linked to the country’s agribusiness sector, and the forthcoming presidential election in October. Continue reading...