This blog was written by Matheus Bizarria, an Activista from ActionAid BrazilYesterday I was surprised to learn that my 16 year old cousin, always very quiet and calm, had been suspended from school...
Three days ago, nearly 80.000 people went out onto the streets to protest against false market solutions on one side of the town. On the other side, the Official Rio+20 has began, with low...
Monday morning was reserved for the Women’s March at the People’s Summit.As a former student of international relations, I've always wondered about the real meaning of the UN Charter...
This week the United National Conference for Sustainable Development (UNCSD), also known as Rio+20 kicks off in Rio. Consisting of world leaders and thousands of participants from all forms and...
Today was another day that Flamengo Park in Rio de Janeiro was full of people, traditional knowledge, ideas and good intentions for a world socially and environmentally fair. This Sunday, the...
A storm which flooded our tents at the World Youth Congress in Rio suddenly became the symbol of why we have gathered.World Youth Congress has literally started with a bang! Storm and rain...
Twenty years after the Rio 92 Conference, Rio+20, held from June 20th to 23th in the city of Rio de Janeiro, aims to discuss development from the sustainability lens, given the Conference goal of...
We live in an unequal world, and women pay a higher price for it. This is one of my few convictions. Among the many women who suffer such inequality, many of them are in the North and Northeast...
About 16% of Brazilian population lives in rural areas. This number leads to an increasingly urban Brazil. At the same time, if we analyze data from the national program “Brazil Without Poverty...
2012 is seen as an apocalyptic year, due to a prophecy of the Mayan civilization, one of the oldest people of Central America, known for its organized structure of science, history, art and religion...
