See special Global Voices coverage on how women fight gender violence in Latin America. Before the COVID-19 pandemic forced the world’s countries to shut down, colors exploded in bright arrays and ...

“It’s like a rallying cry for women who just want to be able to have the option of enjoying their Carnival — Carnival being that space of freedom,” said Attillah Springer, 40, a Trinidadian writer and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO, February 11. /TASS/. Russian female dancer Yuliana Titaeva will participate in the samba schools parade at the carnival in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro for the second year a row. "[The Rio ...

The women of Muses famously throw shoes and the ladies of Nyx decorate purses. Both krewes present popular parades that tout an all-female membership in the thousands. But there’s a good chance ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) " A Louisiana State Museum exhibition that opens Friday (Feb. 10) will commemorate the centennial of New Orleans' oldest surviving women's Carnival parade krewe and the evolution of ...

RIO DE JANEIRO – Ana Lobo, who is six months pregnant, was at a pre-Carnival street party last weekend when a man started yelling and calling her names. "Whore!," she remembered him saying, apparently ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Ana Lobo, who is six months pregnant, was at a pre-Carnival street party last weekend when a man started yelling and calling her names. “Whore!” she remembered him saying, apparently ...