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BRAZIL: War Against Child Pornography on the Internet

BRAZIL: RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 28 (IPS) - The Brazilian government has announced the creation of a web site to centralise the reception of complaints about child pornography on the Internet, as a further step towards fighting the phenomenon ...

From FABIANA FRAYSSINET, Inter Press Service,  28 Nov 2008

SOUTH AMERICA: Young People Want to Give Farming a Chance

SOUTH AMERICA: RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 27 (IPS) - Unlike so many in their grandparents generation, todays young farmers in South Americas Mercosur trade bloc say they want to live off the land where they were born, and not move to cities where ...

From FABIANA FRAYSSINET, Inter Press Service,  27 Nov 2008

ECONOMY-BRAZIL: Car Industry in Reverse Gear

ECONOMY-BRAZIL: RIO DE JANEIRO, Nov 21 (IPS) - Although the global financial crisis has not yet triggered a rise in unemployment in Brazil, car industry and related workers are starting to forge strategies for facing severe recession in ...

From FABIANA FRAYSSINET, Inter Press Service,  21 Nov 2008

BRAZIL: 'Social Circus' Turns Young Lives Right Side Up

BRAZIL: RIO DE JANEIRO, Sep 23 (IPS) - Standing on your head, walking on stilts, juggling and doing balancing acts -- life often seems like a circus metaphor. And for one Brazilian social organisation that is exactly what it is. The groups ...

From FABIANA FRAYSSINET, Inter Press Service,  23 Sep 2008

BRAZIL: African Rhythms Open Prospects for High-Risk Youngsters

BRAZIL: SALVADOR DA BAHIA, Brazil, Jun 19 (IPS) - "Axé" is a word that means "positive energy or life force" in the Yoruba language of West Africa, an important concept in the Afro-Brazilian "candomblé" religion. For hundreds of children ...

From FABIANA FRAYSSINET, Inter Press Service,  19 Jun 2008

BRAZIL: Full Frontal Attack on AIDS Among Gays

BRAZIL: RIO DE JANEIRO, Apr 14 (IPS) - The poster, reminiscent of the film "American Beauty," features a nude young man in a sensual pose lying on (and partly covered by) masses of pink condoms, with the legend "Do whatever you want but do ...

From FABIANA FRAYSSINET, Inter Press Service,  14 Apr 2008

HEALTH-BRAZIL: Education, the Only Weapon Against Dengue

HEALTH-BRAZIL: RIO DE JANEIRO, Mar 28 (IPS) - After taking a number of emergency measures to combat the current dengue epidemic in Rio de Janeiro, health officials in Brazil have committed themselves to investing in education and awareness- ...

From FABIANA FRAYSSINET, Inter Press Service,  28 Mar 2008

ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Fisherfolk to the Rescue - of Turtles

ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil, Mar 15 (Tierramérica) - It's 5am and the fisherfolk of the Brazilian village of Barra da Lagoa embark to see what the sea has left for them in their nets. Among the scant fish catch of the night, ...

From FABIANA FRAYSSINET, Inter Press Service,  15 Mar 2008

ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: Development Vs. Preservation in Florianopolis

ENVIRONMENT-BRAZIL: FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil, Mar 13 (IPS) - With marvellous exceptions like the south and other historic and natural nooks and crannies, the island of Florianopolis in southeastern Brazil is not the same place visitors found 2 ...

From FABIANA FRAYSSINET, Inter Press Service,  13 Mar 2008

BRAZIL: Small Fishermen Trade in Nets for Oyster Farms

BRAZIL: FLORIANÓPOLIS, Brazil, Mar 6 (IPS) - In a modest restaurant on a beach at the southern tip of the Brazilian island of Florianópolis, a couple celebrates, with champagne and oysters, "one more year of vacations and love." The owner ...

From FABIANA FRAYSSINET, Inter Press Service,  6 Mar 2008

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