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RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Rural Women March to Demand a Better Life
More than half of Brazil's rural women begin working before they reach age 10, they toil as long as 18 hours each day and many of their rights are ignored, denounced the leaders of a protest march in Brasilia Thursday.TRADE-LATAM: Fox’s Overture Catches Brazil Off Guard
Mexican president-elect Vicente Fox's aspirations for closer Latin America trade ties, already set in motion by his tour of the Southern Cone, surprised Brazil's diplomatic officials, who have been concentrating on an exclusively South American integration process.POLITICS-BRAZIL: Women Fight it Out in Local Elections
Women running against women for the seat of mayor in three of Brazil's state capitals is the most novel aspect of the campaign for the Oct 1 municipal elections, as well as a reflection of women's growing participation in local politics./REPEATING/ /ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-BRAZIL: Rhythms and Musicians for Export
Biá has lived in France since adolescence, but is constantly travelling throughout Europe, Canada, Japan and other countries, bringing the songs of Brazil to growing and increasingly diverse audiences.ENVIRONMENT: Geology Adds Perspective to Sustainable Development
Geologists around the world are anxious to put their science at the service of sustainable development, agreed these "earth scientists" at their first international conference to be held in South America in their organisation's 120-year history.POPULATION-BRAZIL: New Census to Paint Detailed National Portrait
Brazil has launched its ten-yearly census of the population, asking more questions than ever in an attempt to create a detailed portrait of the country, with more precise data on minority and vulnerable populations, such as women, children, blacks and people with disabilities.DEVELOPMENT-BRAZIL: Cardoso Declares War on Poverty
Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso announced Friday a programme to fight poverty, which targets 2,091 municipalities and entails spending on education, health and the elimination of the worst forms of child labour.DEVELOPMENT-BRAZIL: Cardoso Declares War on Poverty
Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso announced Friday a programme to fight poverty, which targets 2,091 municipalities and entails spending on education, health and the elimination of the worst forms of child labour.ENERGY-BRAZIL: Electricity Imports Climb Sharply
Contracts already signed indicate that Brazil will increase its electricity imports by at least 440 percent over the next three years. Imports began to climb in June with the acquisition of a capacity of 1,000 megawatts from Argentina, the local regulatory agency reported.TRANSPORT-BRAZIL: Information Battle Keeps Traffic Moving
Life in the mega-city of Sao Paulo, with its traffic-choked avenues, is a daily exercise in patience, but the situation would be worse without the army of workers waging war on traffic jams with information as the principal weapon.ENVIRONMENT-LATAM: Oil Spill Was a Wake-up Call, say Activists
The oil spill in the Iguazú river, which runs across southern Brazil to flow into the Paraná river along the border between Argentina and Paraguay, served as a wakeup call to the Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur) trade bloc on the need to harmonise its environmental laws and policies, say activists.DEVELOPMENT-BRAZIL: Farmers Protest Transgenic Grain Shipment
A ship carrying genetically altered maize was attacked Tuesday in northeast Brazil by some 1,500 farmers and unionists who protested the unfair competition in agricultural markets presented by this low-cost grain.ENVIRONMENT-LATAM: Sustainable Management of Giant Aquifer
The members of the Southern Cone Common Market (Mercosur) trade bloc have decided to research, make better use of and protect the Guarani aquifer, one of the world's biggest reserves of subterranean water, and a shared resource that opens up a new area of cooperation in South America./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-BRAZIL: Rock in Rio 3 – A Festival with a Social Conscience
In less than six months' time, this Brazilian city will be transformed once again into the world capital of pop music, with a new version of the marathon Rock in Rio festival, this time with a focus on global social development.AGRICULTURE-BRAZIL: Coffee and Trade Balance, Victims of Frost
The cold wave that has hit Brazil, damaging its coffee and grain harvests, will also take its toll on the nation's trade balance as exports fall and wheat and maize imports rise.EDUCATION-BRAZIL: Circus Schools Rescue Kids from the Streets
Circus schools, which have mushroomed across Brazil since the 1980s, have turned out to be one of the best means for social integration of children in high- risk situations, such as juvenile delinquents and slum-dwellers.ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: River Oil Spill Under Control, Says Petrobras
Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobrás, says it has contained the four million litre spill that had been advancing down the Iguazú River in southern Brazil after a burst pipeline caused the petroleum giant's worst accident since 1975./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/FILM-BRAZIL: Insult Added to Injury in a ‘Nonviable’ Country
Packing all of Brazil's sore spots into a 100-minute film is apparently the objective of "Cronicamente inviavel" (Chronically Nonviable), a biting lampoon of the country's social deformations.DEVELOPMENT-BRAZIL: Gov’t Strikes Out at Large Landowners
Brazil's minister of Agrarian Development, Raul Jungmann, declared Monday that the titles of 1,899 large rural landholdings had been declared null and void, affecting 62.7 million hectares, or 7.4 percent of the country's territory.POLITICS-BRASIL: Corruption Scandal Taints Government
New revelations about the misappropriation of public funds for the construction of a Sao Paulo courthouse has triggered a crisis in the Brazilian government, with all eyes trained on the planning minister and a close former adviser to President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.POLITICS-BRAZIL: Corruption Case Cuts Close to President
The thread of suspicion is running right through the office of Brazil's president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and this week forced him to offer explanations and make statements about the involvement of former officials in the misappropriation of public funds.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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