President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday (Jun. 26) received Argentine President Alberto Fernandez at the Planalto palace in Brasilia. After a private meeting, the two had lunch at the Itamaraty palace, seat of the country's foreign ministry.
Physical and psychological torture practices targeting inmates; starvation; unsanitary conditions; banned visitation; discrimination against detainees' family members, especially women; lack of educational activities; death of detainees and young people in detention; never-ending pretrial detentions; containers used as cells; and the transfer of detainees to districts far from their social environment and family-these
Hunger poses a significant challenge for one-fifth of families led by self-declared brown or black individuals in Brazil (20.6%). This figure is twice as high when compared to families headed by white individuals (10.6%).
Significant issues are negatively impacting global water security. While the situation appears dire, cooperation initiatives show some signs of relief, writes John P Ruehl.
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Vegetable farmers are suffering great losses as rain-triggered floods hit Rio Grande do Sul state in southern Brazil, damaging local facilities and flooding the farmland.
Some 35 kilometers from Porto Alegre in Sao Leopoldo, the Rio dos Sinos river, with soaring water levels, flooded large stretches of farmland.
Agriculture in the area has been badly hit by the catastrophic floods, especially in the harve