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Concert: OPERA SCENES

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:03:22 +0000

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).

Seminar: A MULHER NA POLÍTICA BRASILEIRA

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:57:31 +0000

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

Business Secretary Vince Cable leads delegation to Brazil

admin — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:56:47 +0000

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.

Rio registers lowest murder rate in 19 years

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:12:50 +0000

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 number of deaths caused by firearms are among young males near the bottom of socioeconomic scale.

The security secretary in Rio’s state government, José Mariano Beltrame, attributed the fall in the murder rate to a new system of performance-related bonuses for police officers and to the recent expansion of the ‘pacification’ programme that has seen police units (Unidades Policiais Pacificadoras – UPPs) establish an ongoing presence in some of the favelas most affected by gun violence.

The full report by Rio’s Institute for Public Security (in Portuguese) can be found at www.isp.rj.gov.br.

Source: Agência Brasil and Embassy of Brazil in London

Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio De Janeiro

admin — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:03:09 +0000

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.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1847374360/?tag=splitcubesoft-21

Talk: THE INDUSTRY OF LATIN CARE: DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL SERVICES AMONG LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN MIGRANTS IN LONDON

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:49:12 +0000

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/

STEREOTYPES OF THE BRAZILIAN EMIGRANT TO EUROPE AND SEX TOURISM

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:48:21 +0000

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

Representative council for Brazilians abroad

admin — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:45:22 +0000

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

Talk: THE INDUSTRY OF LATIN CARE: DOMESTIC AND SEXUAL SERVICES AMONG LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN MIGRANTS IN LONDON

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:40:48 +0000

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

New report records steep fall in illegal logging

admin — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:39:45 +0000

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