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EDUCATION: Combatting Violence in the Schools
Violence is growing in schools in many countries around the world, although in different forms and to varying degrees, said experts at the World Education Forum, which ends Wednesday in the southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre.DEVELOPMENT: World Social Forum a Boost for Peace Movement
Peace has gathered strength among the slogans of the World Social Forum, which gets under way Thursday, reflecting the global turning point that activists say has arrived as a result of the United States' combative reaction to the Sep 11, 2001 attacks in New York and Washington.DEVELOPMENT: World Social Forum Grows, Diversifies in Third Year
The southern Brazilian city of Porto Alegre this month will serve, once again, as the global capital of indignation and of dreams as it hosts the World Social Forum, Jan 23-28, which in its third year will be the largest and most diverse so far.BRAZIL: Lula Caught Between Davos and Porto Alegre Forums
Brazil's President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will disappoint a large swath of the world's leftist movements if he accepts the invitation to attend the World Economic Forum, to be held Jan 23-28 in the Swiss mountain resort city of Davos.LATIN AMERICA: New Leaders Emerge from Environmental Movement
Brazil's recently-named environment minister symbolises a new type of leadership in Latin America, an approach arising from activism aimed at profound changes.HEALTH-BRAZIL: Workers’ Rights – Victims of HIV/AIDS
Violations of the labour rights of people living with HIV, the AIDS virus, and the stiffening of eligibility requirements for social security coverage in Brazil make the conditions faced by HIV-positive people, especially women, even more difficult.BRAZIL: A New Chance for Old ‘Social Revolutionary’ Ideas
Luiz Inacio ''Lula'' da Silva, who was sworn in as Brazil's new president on Jan 1, kicked off his four-year term by confirming that the fight against poverty and hunger would top his agenda, and by relaunching a development model whose implementation was long blocked by coups d'etat and suppression of social activism.
Nacen nuevos líderes
La flamante ministra de medio ambiente de Brasil simboliza un nuevo tipo de liderazgo en América Latina, surgido de un activismo ambiental que promueve cambios profundos. A algunos ecologistas, les ha costado la vida.
Johannesburg Summit: Journalism's Bad Example
Journalists are not covering the crisis of the world's model of civilization and seem to be more concerned with spectacle, warns Washington Novaes. "The world is in a big mess," the renowned Brazilian reporter said in a conversation with Tierramérica.POLITICS-BRAZIL: Lula Sends Warning Signals to FTAA
The government of Luiz Inácio ''Lula'' da Silva will stiffen Brazil's stance in the negotiations for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), to judge by the new make-up of the foreign ministry.BRAZIL: Pensions Reform, Lula’s Top Economic and Social Challenge
The first priority of Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inácio ''Lula'' da Silva, who takes office Wednesday, will be to reform the pensions system in order to slash the fiscal deficit and remove one of the main sources of inequality in the country.BRAZIL: Pensions Reform, Lula’s Top Economic and Social Challenge
The first priority of Brazilian president-elect Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva, who takes office Wednesday, will be to reform the pensions system in order to slash the fiscal deficit and remove one of the main sources of inequality in the country.BRAZIL: Controversy Rages over Gilberto Gil’s Cabinet Appointment
The loudest controversy ahead of the Jan 1 inauguration of president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil is raging in the area of culture, even though the biggest dangers the country is facing are on the economic front.BRAZIL: Controversy Rages over Gilberto Gil’s Cabinet Appointment
The loudest controversy ahead of the Jan 1 inauguration of president-elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in Brazil is raging in the area of culture, even though the biggest dangers the country is facing are on the economic front.TRADE-LATAM: Lula Revives Hopes for Mercosur in Midst of Crisis
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will become president of Brazil on Jan 1 with an ambitious plan for the reconstruction of South America's Mercosur, that has given rise to new hopes just when the outlook for the trade bloc is dimmer than ever.HEALTH-BRAZIL: Women with HIV Defend their Right to Bear Children
Sumaia dos Santos Dias was railroaded into having her tubes tied after she gave birth to her third child at the age of 24, because she tested positive for HIV, the AIDS virus.HEALTH-BRAZIL: Women with HIV Defend their Right to Bear Children
Sumaia dos Santos Dias was railroaded into having her tubes tied after she gave birth to her third child at the age of 24, because she tested positive for HIV, the AIDS virus.TRADE-LATAM: Lula Revives Hopes for Mercosur in Midst of Crisis
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will become president of Brazil on Jan 1 with an ambitious plan for the reconstruction of South America's Mercosur, that has given rise to new hopes just when the outlook for the trade bloc is dimmer than ever.POLITICS-LATAM: Growing Concern for Democracy in Venezuela
Latin America is anxiously observing the political instability in Venezuela, because the prospect of a rupture of democracy in that country is seen as intolerable, as indicated by recent remarks and initiatives by government leaders and analysts./ARTS WEEKLY/FILM-BRAZIL: Black, Gay and Illiterate – Now a Big Screen Legend
"Madame Satan" is this year's Brazilian cinema novelty, a film that portrays a reality that contributed to the construction of the national identity seven decades ago, through a figure who, in his own way, overcame all the prejudices against him.POLITICS-LATAM: Growing Concern for Democracy in Venezuela
Latin America is anxiously observing the political instability in Venezuela, because the prospect of a rupture of democracy in that country is seen as intolerable, as indicated by recent remarks and initiatives by government leaders and analysts.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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