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March 5, 2025

🌈 Brazil’s 'Rape Bill' and the fast track to legislative backlash

Daniel Baldin Machado In just one month, a bill equating abortion with homicide reached the voting stage in Brazil’s Lower House. How did this happen? Daniel Baldin Machado examines how a decade of institutional changes has reshaped legislative processes to sideline scrutiny, deepen gendered biases, and weaken democratic accountabilit Read more

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