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Policies

Community Leaders Reflect on a Decade of Bolsa Família

By Annie Austin • October 25, 2013

Clique aqui para Português In 2003, President Luiz Ignacio “Lula” da Silva launched the Bolsa Família program to promote social progress for impoverished families. This and other programs were implemented in an effort to decrease […]

Policies

What is the Role of a Neighborhood Association?

By Sílvia Noronha • Translation by Kayla Boisvert • October 21, 2013

Clique aqui para Português For the original by Sílvia Noronha in Portuguese in Maré de Notícias click here. The precariousness of public services in Maré sets the tone of the functions carried out by the neighborhood […]

Event Reports

Favela Residents Join Teachers Day Protest

By Courtney Allen Crumpler, Kate Steiker-Ginzberg • October 17, 2013

This post is a contribution to Blog Action Day 2013 in which bloggers around the world reflect on this year’s theme, Human Rights. Yesterday, Tuesday October 15, an estimated 20,000 people took to the streets in solidarity […]

Civil Society

Children’s Day is Also a Day of Struggle

By Thamyra Thamara de Araújo • Translation by Emma Platais • October 16, 2013

This post is a contribution to Blog Action Day 2013 in which bloggers around the world reflect on this year’s theme, Human Rights.  Last Saturday October 12, the first #OcupaSARAU event was held, along with a Children’s […]

#CommunityMedia

Community Photographers Observe the Pacification Operation in Lins [IMAGES]

By Luiz Baltar, Naldinho Lourenço, Ratão Diniz, Vitor Madeira • Translation by Elizabeth Gladding • October 16, 2013

This post is a contribution to Blog Action Day 2013 in which bloggers around the world reflect on this year’s theme, Human Rights. For the original by Luiz Baltar, Ratão Diniz, Vitor Madeira and Naldinho Lourenço in Portuguese in Imagens […]

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