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POLITICS-BRAZIL: Social Plan to Boost Cardoso’s Waning Popularity
Analysts say the targets outlined by an ambitious social investment plan with which Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso is seeking to shore up his waning popularity will not be easy to meet.RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Needed – National Policies on Missing Persons
Although an estimated 204,000 people went missing from their homes and communities last year, Brazil has no national public policies to address the problem, according to a report by the National Human Rights Movement (NHRM).RELIGION/RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Time Conspires Against Progressive Church
The death of Bishop Helder Cámara signifies more than the loss of one of the great defenders of the poor for the Roman Catholic Church of Brazil and all of Latin America.RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Gov’t, Landless Unite in Struggle Against Impunity
An unlikely alliance has emerged in Brazil, where both the government and the "landless movement" are fighting the impunity enjoyed by the military police implicated in the 1996 massacre of 19 peasant farmers in Eldorado de Carajás, in northern Brazil.RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Gov’t, Landless Unite in Struggle Against Impunity
An unlikely alliance has emerged in Brazil, where both the government and the "landless movement" are fighting the impunity enjoyed by the military police implicated in the 1996 massacre of 19 peasant farmers in Eldorado de Carajás, in northern Brazil.RIGHTS-BRAZIL/GUATEMALA: Fighting Impunity Surrounding Massacres
Brazil's international image, the credibility of its legal system and the agrarian reform programme are all being brought into play by the biggest trial in the history of Brazil, which began Monday.RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Community Activists Contain Domestic Violence
Domestic violence in the crowded neighbourhood of Bom Jesus, in the city of Porto Alegre, has been halved in the past six years, thanks to community activists.AGRICULTURE-BRAZIL: Farmers Demand Debt Relief, Support
Tens of thousands of farmers have driven to the Brazilian capital in convoys, mainly from down south, to demand debt relief and support from the government.RIGHTS-BRAZIL/GUATEMALA: Fighting Impunity Surrounding Massacres
Brazil's international image, the credibility of its legal system and the agrarian reform programme are all being brought into play by the biggest trial in the history of Brazil, which began Monday.ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Resistance to Plan for Regulating Water Use
The Brazilian government is facing heavy resistance to its plan for the creation of a National Water Agency (ANA) to regulate, control and charge for the use of water resources as of next year.ENVIRONMENT-LATAM: The Sins and Virtues of Hydropower Plants
More than four million people expelled from their homes each year constitute just one aspect of the damages caused by hydroelectric dams, whose role in Latin America is to be assessed at a regionwide conference Thursday and Friday in Sao Paulo, Brazil.RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Movement to Ban Firearms Picks Up Steam
The movement to ban firearms was given a major boost in Brazil with the designation of human rights activist Jose Carlos Dias as justice minister. But critics abound, both within and outside of parliament.RIGHTS-BRAZIL: Movement to Ban Firearms Picks Up Steam
The movement to ban firearms was given a major boost in Brazil with the designation of human rights activist Jose Carlos Dias as justice minister. But critics abound, both within and outside of parliament.DEVELOPMENT-BRAZIL: Boom for Telephones – and Complaints
The one year since the privatisation of Brazil's telecommunications system has seen an explosion in the number of telephones, and in the number of complaints about phone services.TRADE: Brazil Claims EU Imposes Unfair Coffee Tariffs
Brazil is to request a World Trade Organisation (WTO) hearing on what it says are the European Union's (EU) discriminatory trade policies against its instant coffee exports.RIGHTS-LATAM: Novel Approaches to Curbing Violence
More than 60 Latin American mayors and experts gathered Thursday and Friday in Rio de Janeiro to share novel approaches to curbing all forms of violence, especially domestic abuse.TRADE-MERCOSUR: Argentina Backs Down, to Defuse Crisis
Argentinian President Carlos Menem yielded to Brazil's pressure and agreed to exempt fellow Southern Common Market (Mercosur) members from the restrictions on imports announced by his government, thus paving the way to a solution to the crisis jolting the South American trade bloc.TRANSPORT-MERCOSUR: Strikes Threaten Scarcity in Provisions
Traffic was noisy and congested in the largest and smallest members of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) trade bloc Tuesday, where transport strikes in Brazil and Uruguay meant horn-blasting convoys of trucks were holding up traffic along highways and in cities.TRADE-ENERGY: Brazil’s Oil Output Changes Trade Patterns
The possibility that Brazil could supply 100 percent of its consumer demand for oil within five years is changing the face of the regional fuel trade and widening the role of natural gas in South America.TRADE: Brazilian Soya Farmers Protest US Subsidies
Brazilian soya farmers are up in arms over the U.S. practice of subsidising U.S. soya producers, in a trade conflict directly linked to the crash of commodity prices.SOCIETY-BRAZIL: Problems with Paperwork
At least five million people, alive and living in Brazil, do not exist as far as authorities are concerned because they have no birth certificates.« Previous Page — Next Page »
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