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POLITICS-BRAZIL: Crime and Violence Spur More Gov’t Reforms
Public safety has become a crisis as a result of wide-spread violence and the expansion of organised crime, reaching the point where it is forcing Brazil to undergo a second round of government reforms.SCIENCE-BRAZIL: Failed Space Rocket Defers Market-Access Dreams
Brazil failed again in its attempt to launch a satellite with nationally-made rockets, postponing the country's dream of joining the select group of nations that dominate the world aerospace market.TRADE: Brazil Protests ‘Masked’ US Protectionism
The abuse of anti-dumping mechanisms, especially by the United States, is one form of protectionism, which must be reviewed in future trade negotiations, the Brazilian government and business community complain.ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Activists Block New Forestry Code
Fast work by 189 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in mobilising support led the Brazilian Congress to postpone a vote on a new forestry code which environmentalists warn would lead to an increase in deforestation.CHILDREN-BRAZIL: Street Kids Caught Up By Consumer Fever
While street children in Brazil are marginalised by the consumer society, they do not escape the fever for consumption, which makes it even more difficult to reintegrate them into their families, which are generally caught in the grip of poverty.activists in Latin America. FABIO GIAMBIAGI: The Future of Mercosur Lies in Its Origins
An idea which is gaining strength among the four members of the Southern Cone Common Market (MERCOSUR) - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay - is that the trade bloc is in need of "relaunching."DEVELOPMENT-LATAM: Educate and Export to Grow, Advises IDB
Latin America should put top priority on education and exports, to ensure economic growth and combat inequity, stressed a seminar held in Brazil to mark the 40th anniversary of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).ECONOMY-BRAZIL: Decentralisation and Deindustrialisation
The Brazilian economy has undergone major changes since last decade. Industry, whose share of production has dropped, has been moving from the major urban centres to poorer areas of the country, according to a new government report released Thursday.DRUGS-BRAZIL: Armed Forces Launch Major Anti-Marijuana Operation
Brazil's Armed Forces, usually reluctant to get directly involved in the fight against the drug trade, unleashed a massive campaign against marijuana plantations in the nation's northeast.ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Crackdown on Trafficking in Wildlife
The arrest of several people caught trying to smuggle spiders, butterflies and snakes out of Brazil spotlighted the growing dimension of the traffic in biological entities in this country.ENVIRONMENT: Gradualist Steps for Anti-Desertification Fight
A gradualist "Recife Initiative," instead of a hard-line "mandate" that would have set specific goals and timelines, marked the end, Friday, to the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD).ENVIRONMENT: Desertification Overshadowed By ‘Sexier’ Issues
The 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro produced three conventions on the environment, resulting in greater protection for biodiversity and reduced "greenhouse" gas emissions, but wealthy nations seem to have forgotten the problem of desertification, say international experts.DEVELOPMENT-LATAM: Economic Crises Accentuate Rural Poverty
The impact of the financial crises in Asia, Russia and Brazil accentuated rural poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean in the past two years, turning around a positive trend, according to the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).ENVIRONMENT: Desertification – Major Poverty Factor
The desertification and degradation of drylands have a direct impact on increased poverty around the world, reported Fawzi Al-Sultán, Monday, president of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Homeless Step Up Struggle for Affordable Housing
Groups leading the struggle for housing in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, have begun to occupy abandoned buildings and set up living quarters in downtown streets to press the government to respond to their demands.RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Homeless Step Up Struggle for Affordable Housing
Groups leading the struggle for housing in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, have begun to occupy abandoned buildings and set up living quarters in downtown streets to press the government to respond to their demands.POLITICS-BRAZIL: Army Defends President Cardoso’s Ranch
The Brazilian army sent 250 soldiers Friday to protect president Fernando Henrique Cardoso's country estate, threatened with invasion by a group of homeless peasants.TRADE-BRAZIL: Aeronautics Company Heads Exports
The Brazilian Aeronautics Company, Embraer, has shot to the head of the class in exports, feeding Brazil's national pride by competing in the market for high-tech products.RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Homeless Step Up Struggle for Affordable Housing
Groups leading the struggle for housing in Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city, have begun to occupy abandoned buildings and set up living quarters in downtown streets to press the government to respond to their demands.POLITICS-BRAZIL: Anti-Corruption Investigations in Final Phase
Parliamentary commissions investigating corruption in Brazil's justice and financial systems are reaching the last stage of their inquiries, which could topple a senator and lead to legal action against a former Central Bank director and several judges.ENVIRONMENT: UN Conference Urges Anti-Desertification Action
The drought in Brazil's impoverished northeast is no longer an annual phenomenon, it has apparently become a permanent situation and is turning the region into a desert - a process mirrored to some degree on all of the earth's continents.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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