10 September 2010 | 7.30pm
Bolívar Hall, Embassy of Venezuela, 54 Grafton Way, London W1T 5DL
This semi-staged performance will present arias and duets from The Marriage of Figaro, La Traviata, Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Don Giovanni. With Brazilian soprano Gabriela Di Laccio, Stefan Holmström (baritone) and Jakob Fichert (piano).

7 September 2010 | 6.30pm
Alfred Hitchcock Cinema, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road,
London E1 4NS
A seminar and film screening about the role of women in Brazilian politics. This event will be held in Portuguese

UK Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Dr. Vince Cable, has been visiting Brazil this week with a delegation representing some of the UK’s largest companies. The purpose of his visit is to strengthen the relationship and business cooperation between the two countries, and maximize reciprocal opportunities for investment.

The number of homicides in Rio de Janeiro state in June was lower than in any other month since 1991, according to a report released on 4 August by Rio’s Institute for Public Security.

There were 347 murders in total: still a high per capita rate in a state with a population of around 16 million, but nevertheless the continuation of a downward trend.

For many years Rio de Janeiro city has suffered extremely high levels of gun violence – most of it related to the activities of armed drug gangs in the city’s favelas. A disproportionate
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Life Rio de Janeiro’s favelas, now home to more than a quarter of the city’s population, is explored by American sociologist Janice Perlman in this new book. In the early 1970s Perlman conducted a study of 750 favela residents, publishing her findings in The Myth of arginality (1976). More than 30 years later she returned to Rio to track down these original participants and see what the hanges in their lives revealed about the prospects for social mobility in Brazil.

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Royal Holloway, University of London, Montague House, Montague Place, 11 Bedford Square, London WC1E 6DP
This talk will be given by Ana Paula Gutierrez-Garza, from the London School of Economics.

http://www.gold.ac.uk/clcl/geb/

Room G19, Arts Building, Queen Mary, 327 Mile End Road, London E1 4NS

Organised by the Portuguese Section of Queen Mary, University of London, this event comprises a talk and the screening of the film Cinderelas, Lobos e um Príncipe Encantado (Cinderellas, Wolves and Prince Charming) (Brazil, Joel Zito Araújo, 2009). The film travels
from the Brazilian northeast to Rome and Berlin trying to understand the world of sex tourism and sexual exploitation and trafficking. For further information about this event please contact Else Vieira at e@vieira.org.uk

A council of representatives is to be formed as part of the ‘Brasileiros no Mundo’ project set up by the Ministry of External Relations to encourage dialogue with and between Brazilian communities around the world. For further information see the Brasileiros no Mundo internet portal.

http://www.brasileirosnomundo.mre.gov.br/es-es/Main.xml

16 September 2010 | 7pm
Royal Holloway, University of London, Montague House, Montague Place, 11 Bedford
Square, London WC1E 6DP

A report on illegal logging in various countries around the world has been published by Chatham House, the London-based international affairs institute.

It estimates that unauthorised logging in the Brazilian Amazon has decreased by between 54% and 75% in the last decade.
http://www.brazil.org.uk/press/pressreleases_files/20100716.html