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AGRICULTURE-BRAZIL: Foot-and-Mouth Shakes Up Global Beef Market
The outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in western Brazil could drive up international beef prices, which is why experts believe the ban on Brazilian beef imports will be short-lived.POPULATION-BRAZIL: Reaching Out to Young Men to Fight Gender Violence
Watching his mother receive frequent beatings at the hands of his stepfather, until she finally lost her hearing in one ear, made him a quiet teenager who keeps his gaze glued to the floor.But he decided that he was not going to become a violent man himself, and he poured his experiences into the script of a play that is now used as a tool in the fight against domestic violence in Brazil.
POPULATION-BRAZIL: Reaching Out to Young Men to Fight Gender Violence
Watching his mother receive frequent beatings at the hands of his stepfather, until she finally lost her hearing in one ear, made him a quiet teenager who keeps his gaze glued to the floor.COMMUNICATIONS: The Struggle for Real Control Over the Virtual World
The real world is involved in a battle for control over the virtual world, one of the central issues to be dealt with at the Nov. 16-18 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in the Tunisian capital.COMMUNICATIONS-LATIN AMERICA: Mobile Phones Only a Partial Solution
The statistics seem to reflect encouraging progress: the number of telephones per 100 inhabitants rose from 23.12 to 52.7 in South America between 1999 and 2004, while Central America experienced a leap from 17.24 to 47.9, more than tripling the population's access to telephone service.ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Lula Persuades Bishop to Call Off Hunger Strike
After reaching an agreement with the government, Brazilian Bishop Luiz Flavio Cappio called off a hunger strike that he had begun 10 days earlier to demand a halt to a project to divert part of the flow of the Sao Francisco River to other areas in Brazil's semiarid northeast.BRAZIL: Bishop on Hunger Strike to the Death Against River Diversion
If the Brazilian bishop who has declared a hunger strike dies, his burial will also spell "the burial of the Lula administration," predicted a leader of the movement opposed to the diversion of water from the Sao Francisco River to the country's semiarid northeast.ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Amazonian Paranoia
Nine out of 10 Brazilians surveyed believe that a conspiracy is under way to internationalise the Amazon forests through foreign occupation or some type of international control, says Senator Jefferson Peres.SOUTH AMERICA: Brazil and Venezuela, the Motors of Integration
Brazil and Venezuela, whose leaders have been the driving forces behind the creation of the new South American Community of Nations, took advantage of the group's first summit meeting to reinforce their economic ties.BRAZIL: Landless Movement Turns Up the Heat
While the government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil is facing an ongoing political corruption scandal, it is also feeling the heat from the country's strong landless rural workers movement, whose activists staged occupations of public offices and idle land this week.BRAZIL: Sanitation a Priority Only on Paper
Despite promises to make basic hygiene, sanitation and water services a priority in Brazil, fiscal adjustment policies have pushed urgently needed spending on this sector to the bottom of the government's agenda, according to participants in the 23rd Brazilian Congress on Sanitary and Environmental Engineering.
Amazonian Paranoia
A broad sector of the Brazilian population believes that foreign powers aim to take over the Amazon region. Could their fears have a basis in reality?BRAZIL: Gun Ban Referendum Stirs Up Opposing Views
Brazil appears set to become the first country in the world to ban the sale of firearms as the result of a referendum, as part of a campaign to combat the alarming rise in gun-related deaths over the last two decades.MILLENNIUM GOALS-BRAZIL: Poverty Must Be Attacked at Its Roots, Say Activists
Instead of focusing on reducing the number of people living in extreme poverty, the world's leaders should be working towards combating the root causes of poverty, since this is the only real way of eradicating it, says the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP).BRAZIL: Rainwater Tanks Represent Health and Hope for 100,000 Families
Rainwater collection tanks have already made clean drinking water available to more than 100,000 families in Brazil, and the goal is to build one million by 2008, to ensure water supplies for all poor households in the country's impoverished semiarid northeast.MILLENNIUM GOALS: Inequality – the Root Cause of Poverty in Latin America
The unequal distribution of wealth remains the underlying cause of poverty throughout Latin America, although the region's countries have made widely varying degrees of progress towards meeting the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).MILLENNIUM GOALS: A Step Backwards for Women, Say Activists
Women's rights activists in Brazil say the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are narrower than the objectives adopted at international conferences in the 1990s.HEALTH-BRAZIL: Infertility Linked to Environmental Factors
The alarm is sounding again in Brazil about the impacts of environmental problems on fertility. This time it is coming from Sao Paulo, the country's biggest metropolis, where the Albert Einstein Hospital's sperm bank is seeing a shortage of good donors./ARTS WEEKLY/THEATRE-BRAZIL: Shining the Spotlight on Science – Literally
Arte Ciência no Palco (Art and Science on Stage) is a unique Brazilian theatre group devoted exclusively to scientific themes, as a means of highlighting the fight for knowledge as one of the most dramatic battles in human history.TRADE: G20 Negotiating Capacity Could Bring Surprises in Hong Kong
Although the negotiations ahead of the sixth WTO ministerial conference point to failure, past experience shows that surprises cannot be ruled out, says Gilman Rodrigues, a leading representative of Brazil's agricultural producers.
Infertility Linked to Environmental Factors
The sperm count is on the decline among the male inhabitants of Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city. Experts associate the problem with air pollution, chemical substances in food, and the stress of urban life.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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