Brazil is known for having a liberal society, which often displays attitudes of sexual openness and freedom of expression. However, when it comes to LGBTI people, Brazilian society can be discriminatory and intolerant. LGBTI people face high levels of discrimination and homophobic violence, including extreme violence such as murder.
Conheça a nova turma de empreendedores LGBTI selecionados pela Micro Rainbow Brasil, as novidades do curso e a importância desta iniciativa para atual conjuntura do país.
The impact of the election of a far-right and homophobic president in Brazil on the LGBTI community, particularly on those living in poverty.
Aiming to meet the requests from our own beneficiaries, MRI Brazil held the first intensive digital marketing course for LGBTI small entrepreneurs in Rio de Janeiro in April 2018.
Graduation of 27 LGBTI people from the 5th entrepreneurship course run by Micro Rainbow Brazil exclusively for low-income LGBTI people.
In March 2018, our Micro Rainbow Brazil project started the 5th small business course for low-income LGBT in Rio de Janeiro. Find out more about the selection process, the new students and the course’s new features
In December 2017 our Brazil team held an end-year meeting with our beneficiaries to discuss the progress in their own businesses and challenges for 2018.
To celebrate Transgender Visibility Month, we share the story of a trans activist who joined our small business course and became a member of our Brazil team.
Learn about interfaces between entrepreneurship and professional qualification among our beneficiaries in Rio and how they have contributed to their professional success!
Since 2015, more than 230 employees in Brazil were trained by MRI on LGBT inclusion in the labour market. Find out more about these training’s and their impacts so far.
31 students graduated from MRI’s 4th course. Find out about the course, the newly created businesses and challenges for LGBT entrepreneurship in Brazil
Individual case studies from Brazil
PINK AT WORK is an online platform of products and services offered by LGBT entrepreneurs.
In the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games, Brazil’s team was led by a trans model, symbolising the event’s focus on inclusion of sexual and gender diversity. MRI was part of this story.
An infographic overview of the Brazil project from 2015 to 2017
At a press conference on 15th August MRI launched a new publication compiling some of the success stories of socioeconomic inclusion and empowerment of LGBT people in the fight against homo and transphobia, due to Micro Rainbow’s poverty reduction activities in Brazil.
Micro Rainbow launches a pioneering publication, “LGBT Entrepreneurship: case studies of socioeconomic empowerment in Rio de Janeiro between 2015-2017”.
The Micro Rainbow Brazil Project received the Láurea CAF 2017 award, which acknowledges the best initiatives in support of micro entrepreneurship in Brazil promoted by
Toronto, Canada 14 June 2017 On June 14, MRI’s Project Manager from Brazil, Lucas Paoli Itaborahy joined Lee Badgett from the Williams Institute on a
Brazil registers high rates of violence against LGBTI people every year. Pressure from activists to criminalizing trans/homophobia and regulate rights has been facing strong resistance
Micro Rainbow Brazil’s team participated in the first session of the Sexual and Gender Diversity Week, organised by the Sexual Diversity Commission of the Federal
MRI research “LGBT people living in poverty in Rio de Janeiro”, published in 2015, identified serious gaps in the professional and educational background of low-income-LGBT
Internationally, Brazil projects an image of tolerance and openness, where expressions of sexuality during Carnival are nurtured. However, when it comes to lesbian, gay, bisexual,
On April 14 2016, Micro Rainbow’s (MRI) Project Manager, Lucas Paoli Itaborahy, held a training for the European Union (EU) delegations in Brazil, Argentina, Chile,
Micro Rainbow attended the 60th session of the CSW (Commission on the Status of Women), held in New York, between 14 and 24 March 2016
The hope and belief that the world may soon be a place with less prejudice and more opportunities for social inclusion is the optimistic vision
January 29 is the day of transvestite and transsexual visibility in Brazil. This day of celebration started in 2004, when the Ministry of Health’s STD/HIV
Celebrating 2015 IDAHOT by participating in the XII LGBT Seminar in Brazil’s National Congress. At this seminar we pre-launched the Portuguese version of our study LGBT people living in poverty in Rio de Janeiro.
Support from the European Union through the European Instrument for Democracy and Human Rights (EIDHR) to fight poverty and discrimination of LGBTI people in Brazil.
Launch of a report entitled “LGBT people living in poverty in Rio de Janeiro” on the occasion of the International Human Rights Conference of World Pride in Toronto (Canada) 2014.
At the World Forum on Human Rights 2013 in Brazil.
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