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LABOUR-BRAZIL: ‘Flexibilisation’ Bill Reawakens Controversy
Lawmakers are debating a legislative bill that would give the results of labour negotiations precedence over labour laws, sparking controversy about loosening the laws as a means of reducing unemployment.ENVIRONMENT-LATAM: Women Prepare for Rio+10 Summit
Women from around the world are preparing to play a leading role at the World Summit on Sustainable Development (Rio+10), slated for next September in Johannesburg, South Africa, where women's groups from Latin America plan to shine the spotlight on the importance of social justice.RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Anti-Torture Campaign Implicates Prosecutors
Torture is routinely used to extract confessions from suspects in Brazil, not only by police, but by public prosecutors and "torture specialists" as well, according to the non-governmental National Human Rights Movement (MNDH).CHILDREN-BRAZIL: An Untapped Mine of Innovative Social Projects
Brazil is a mine of innovative social projects that have been successful in opening up new horizons for disadvantaged youngsters. However, the government has failed to take full advantage of such programmes in its efforts to fight crime and social marginalisation.POLITICS-BRAZIL: Taking on a Stronger Foreign Policy Role
Brazil confirmed at the fourth ministerial conference of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) that it has built a foreign policy with a certain degree of coherency and effectiveness.TRADE: Brazil Celebrates Successes in Doha
Brazil is celebrating several victories scored at the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) fourth ministerial conference in the capital of Qatar, especially on the questions of drug patents and trade in farm products.LABOUR-BRAZIL: VW Strike Highlights Car Industry Crisis
Workers at Volkswagen's largest plant in Brazil, who declared an indefinite strike to protest the company's dismissal of 3,000 employees, marched Tuesday through the town where the factory is located to underline that the lay- offs would hurt everyone./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-BRAZIL: Television Provides Material for the Big Screen
"Caramurú", which premiered last weekend in movie theatres throughout Brazil, is seen as a test of the consolidation of a formula in which a popular television series is made into a film, reversing the normal route in which the big screen serves as the foundation for a new TV show.RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Trial a Boost for Indians, Not for Other Victims
Four men were found guilty this weekend of assassinating an indigenous activist at a Brasilia bus stop in 1997, a ruling that could strengthen the native population's demands for land rights, though human rights activists doubt it will help protect the homeless who face similar attacks in the streets of Brazil.HEALTH-LATAM: Smoking Finds Fertile Ground among the Poor
The number of smoking-related deaths in the world will climb from the current four million to 10 million within the next 20 years, hitting lower-income segments and the populations of poor countries especially hard.DEVELOPMENT: ‘Latin-ness’ Unites Africa, Latin America and Europe
A new international order that is not only economic, but also political and juridical, is essential so that the world does not head towards "absolute chaos", and steers instead toward progress, Portugal's former president Mario Soares told a seminar here on "Latin space" in today's world.ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Exotic Species Ride Globalisation’s Coattails
The removal of trade barriers and the expansion of tourism, by-products of the globalisation process, are facilitating the movement of organisms that can prove hazardous to agriculture and the environment, a reality that Brazil knows all too well.ECONOMY-BRAZIL: Trade Surplus and Recovery of ‘Real’ Feed Hopes
Brazil recorded another trade surplus in October, accumulating 1.5 billion dollars so far this year and feeding hopes for an improved trade performance in 2002 and for less pressure on the national currency, the real.EDUCATION-BRAZIL: Wage Hike Aimed at Ending University Strike
The funding that the Brazilian Senate approved Wednesday for a salary increase for professors could finally put an end to the strike that has affected the country's federal universities for the last 70 days./REPEAT/ENVIRONMENT: Latin America Calls for ‘New Globalisation Process’
Latin America and the Caribbean proposed Wednesday that the design of "a new globalisation process" based on equitable, sustainable development be adopted as the theme of next year's World Summit on Sustainable Development.ENVIRONMENT: Latin America Calls for ‘New Globalisation Process’
Latin America and the Caribbean proposed Wednesday that the design of "a new globalisation process" based on equitable, sustainable development be adopted as the theme of next year's World Summit on Sustainable Development.ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Children, Women Lead Effort to Save Rivers
Women and schoolchildren represent hope for recuperating life in the contaminated rivers of the metropolitan area of Porto Alegre, a city in southern Brazil, say local leaders.LABOUR: Far from Home, Filipino Sailors Seek Sex Workers in Brazil Ports
"They are easy to do business with," 36-year-old Denize Oliveira, who has been earning a living offering sex services to foreign sailors for 15 years, says of Filipino seafarers.DEVELOPMENT: Business Incubators Hold First World Conference
The business incubators movement is a fast-growing route towards development through the creation of technology-based small businesses in Brazil, which is hosting the first World Conference on Business Incubation./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/BOOKS-BRAZIL: In Search of a Good Crime Novel
Police inspector Espinosa is apparently the solution for filling in a gap in Brazilian literature, the crime novel that leaves fingerprints and centres around such strong and durable characters as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot or Sam Spade.RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Deni Natives Demarcate Lands to Halt Intrusion
Indigenous peoples living in the deep interior of the Brazilian Amazon have taken it upon themselves to mark the boundaries of their lands, given that the government has delayed in doing so and they face the threat of invasion by a Malaysian logging company.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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