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EDUCATION-BRAZIL: In Search of Quality and Equity
Quality and equity are the big challenges for Brazil's education system today, now that enrollment has expanded to 96 percent of children aged 7 to 14, up from 89 percent in 1994, said education minister Paulo Renato Souza.//WOMEN 2000- GENDER EQUALITY// DEVELOPMENT: Globalisation Increases Pres sure to Work More
Marcia Rodrigues Carvalho, a teacher who works at two primary schools, acknowledges that she is on the verge of exhaustion, trembles at the end of her 12-hour work day and is taking several medicat ions, including anti-depressives.CRIME-BRAZIL: Participation and Data are Powerful Weapons
The police are on their way to revolutionising public safety through a programme that focuses on citizen participation and the efficient use of data in this south-central state capital, one of Brazil's major cities.COMMUNICATION-BRAZIL: ‘Radio Favela’ After 23 Years of Struggle
While winning awards and recognition from the United Nations and local officials, 'Radio Favela' - a pirate station that has provided essential services to the residents of shantytowns in this Brazilian city for 23 years - was the target of police raids, arrests and the confiscation of equipment.AGRICULTURE-BRAZIL: Set to Fight for Leadership in Beef Exports
The certification of more than half of Brazil's cattle as free of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) with vaccination could set South America's giant in a position to become the world's top exporter of beef in four years.ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Threats to Amazon Unite Gov’t and Activists
The government and the environmental movement have apparently joined forces in a parliamentary battle underway in Brazil, the outcome of which could intensify deforestation activities in the Amazon and the country's savannahs.ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Threat to Amazon Unites Gov’t and Activists
The government and the environmental movement have apparently joined forces in a parliamentary battle underway in Brazil, the outcome of which could intensify deforestation activities in the Amazon and the country's savannahs./CORRECTED REPEAT/
The government and the environmental movement have apparently joined forces in a parliamentary battle underway in Brazil, the outcome of which could intensify deforestation activities in the Amazon and the country's savannahs.ECONOMY-BRAZIL: Foreign Accounts Dim Hopes for Improvement
Brazil's foreign accounts have resurfaced as a thorn in the national economy after their marked deterioration in April, adding insult to injury as the country begins to feel the impact of the recent interest rate hike in the United States.POLITICS-BRAZIL: Repression on the Rise as Agrarian Model Fails
The escalating repression of social protests in Brazil is one more indicator that the government's agricultural development model has failed, says the principal leader of the Movimento dos Sem Terra (MST - Landless Movement), Joao Pedro Stédile.HUMAN RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Huge Gap Between Laws and Their Enforcement
The enormous distance between legislation and its effective application in Brazil was the main concern expressed by United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson on her four-day visit here.RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Mary Robinson Collects Fat Packet of Complaints
United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Mary Robinson has collected a fat packet of complaints of human rights violations that have gone unpunished, to take back with her Thursday after a four-day visit to Brazil./ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC-BRAZIL: Ambitious Multimedia Anthology Revels in Diversity
Brazil's musical diversity is manifest in the multitude of styles and compositions included in a project that is feeding the public's eager ears, eyes and hearts through a 15-episode TV programme, four compact discs, a book and a website.ECONOMY-BRAZIL: Growth Takes Toll on Energy Supplies
Brazil's gross domestic product (GDP) grew 3.08 percent in this year's first quarter, but it has its downside: electrical energy production may not be able to keep up with the increasing demand.DEVELOPMENT-BRAZIL: A Pioneer in Municipal Development
Forty years ago the city government of Porto Alegre, the capital of the state of Rio Grande do Sul, became the first Brazilian municipality to have a computer, after it consulted the Brazilian Institute of Municipal Administration (IBAM), which helped finance the purchase.RIGHTS-LATAM: Operation Condor Justice 20 Years Overdue
More than 20 years overdue, the justice systems of Latin America's Southern Cone countries have begun working together to investigate the crimes of Operation Condor, created by the region's military dictatorships in the 1970s to carry out repressive political actions beyond their national borders.LABOUR-BRAZIL: Protests Expand Land and Wage Demands
Federal government employees in Brazil began a strike Wednesday to demand pay raises after five years of frozen wages, an event that coincided with the annual day of protest by the nation's rural workers, underscoring the widespread social tensions here.TRADE-LATAM: Fiscal Discipline, New Key to Mercosur Integration
Fiscal discipline is the new key to enhancing and deepening integration in South America's biggest trade bloc, Mercosur (Southern Common Market), agreed participants in the bloc's "economic summit", which ended Tuesday in this Brazilian city.RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Broad Opposition to Gov’t Crackdown on Landless
Although public support for Brazil's increasingly radical landless movement (MST) has been waning, there has also been widespread opposition to the government's decision to expand the National Security Law, a symbol of the 1964- 85 military dictatorship, to crack down on the movement.RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Civil Society Takes the Initiative
Some 2,000 organisations of civil society drew up an "alternative report" assessing Brazil's compliance with the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), to fill the vacuum left by the government.LABOUR-BRAZIL: Truck Strike Continues Despite Gov’t Concessions
The Brazilian government made good on some of its promises to truckers, which should have put an end to their strike - now in its fourth day - but the concessions only seem to underscore the power of the truckers' movement, even when its leadership is divided.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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