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Tuesday, August 25, 2026
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LATIN AMERICA: IDB Capital Boost – Drop of Water in Sea of Crisis
The United States’ cautious backing has cleared up doubts about a new increase in the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) capital, which has been called for by the multilateral lending institution’s governors as well as by the countries of Latin America.DEVELOPMENT: IDB Falls Short of Its Name, Say Activists
The 50th annual meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has drawn harsh criticism from a parallel civil society counter-assembly in this Colombian city.COLOMBIA: Growing International Support for Peace
The Nasa indigenous people who live in southwestern Colombia risked their very lives when they took it upon themselves to blow up munitions and weapons they discovered on their lands.RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Law Still Not Saving Women’s Lives
Rosemary Fracasso, a 37-year-old mother of two teenagers, was murdered by her ex husband with a machete. During the attack he cut off her fingers and arms and left her heart visible through a gaping chest wound.
ENVIRONMENT: Quest for the Amazon Turtles
Looking back, Mario Maranhão concludes that being a conservationist was always in his nature. When he had to hunt for a living, he "only killed enough to eat, and never went after the female animals," he says. Five years ago, he took on the mission of rescuing turtles that hatch near Alter do Chão, a natural paradise located in eastern Amazonia.
BRAZIL: Happiness Is Promoting Health and Development in the Amazon
On his fourth trip to Brazil, Prince Charles plans to visit a project in the Amazon jungle that has cut infant mortality and illiteracy nearly in half by organising poor communities to get involved in their own development.
Amazon Turtle Quest
Two reporters embark on an expedition across Lago Verde, in eastern Amazonia, to observe how scientists and local fishing people join efforts to study and protect the area’s turtles.
ENVIRONMENT: Amazon Teetering on the Edge
The Amazon Basin captures 12,000 to 16,000 square kilometres of water per year, and just 40 percent of that flows through the rivers. The rest returns to the atmosphere through evapotranspiration of the forests and is distributed throughout South America.
Amazon Teetering on the Edge
Four scenarios laid out in the GEO report, ranging from the horrific to the barely optimistic, provide a view of what the Amazon could look like in just 17 years.HEALTH-BRAZIL: Older Women at Higher Risk from AIDS
The HIV infection rate in women over 50 in Brazil has more than tripled since 1996, making this population group the prime target of the government's HIV/AIDS prevention campaign during the carnival festivities.
CLIMATE CHANGE: Amazon Destruction Undermines Brazil’s Leadership
The Brazilian government, and its Environment Ministry in particular, accepted a risky bet by agreeing to voluntary goals for curbing deforestation in the Amazon, giving the country greater weight in the global talks on fighting climate change.WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: ‘Stateless Peoples’ Defend Diversity
The immense diversity of peoples was apparent at the World Social Forum (WSF), which ended Sunday in Belém, the capital of the state of Pará in the Brazilian Amazon region.WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Presidents for Feminist Socialism
"True socialism is feminist," and is already being built, said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, standing next to three other South American presidents, all of them men, at a dialogue that took place Thursday at the World Social Forum (WSF).
WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: “Wake Up, World!” – SOS from the Amazon
A human banner made up of more than 1,000 people, seen and photographed from the air, sent the message "SOS Amazon" to the world, in the first action taken by indigenous people hours before the opening in northern Brazil on Tuesday of the 2009 World Social Forum (WSF).MEDIA-BRAZIL: Free Speech and an Open Mic
Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva "betrayed" community radio stations, said Magno Cruz, the head of Radio Conquista, speaking at a round table discussion at the International Laboratory for Free Media, held in the capital of the northeastern state of Maranhao.
Amazon Deforestation Undermines Brazil's Climate Leadership
Brazil is confident in completing its four-year goals for halting forest loss in the Amazon and thus also dramatically reducing greenhouse gas emissions.WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: Crisis as Opportunity for “Another World”
A World Social Forum (WSF) revitalised by a global crisis that has awakened new interest in the proposition that "another world is possible" - now perceived as either less utopian or more urgently needed - will take place from Jan. 27 to Feb. 1 in Belém, in northern Brazil.BRAZIL-US: Obama Feeds Hopes
Brazil expects its international standing to be bolstered by more cooperative relations with the United States under the presidency of Barack Obama, as well as a shift in Washington’s position on the issue of climate change and with respect to Cuba.BRAZIL: Rise in Unemployment Revives Labour Movement
The global financial crisis has hit Brazil’s labour market and shaken the trade union movement from its slumber after several years of economic boom and employment growth.ECONOMY-BRAZIL: Crisis Brings Slump in Industry, Agriculture
Forecasts that Brazil's grain harvest will be down by 5.9 percent this year and the announcement of an accumulated fall in industrial output of 7.9 percent in October-November 2008 have pricked the balloon of traditional new year optimism in this country.CLIMATE CHANGE-BRAZIL: Calls for Adaptation Unheeded
Torrential rains have deluged several Brazilian states since November, causing nearly 200 deaths so far and reinforcing environmentalist campaigns calling for urgent climate change adaptation measures.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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