Edition 65 • Year 9 - March/April 2012
human development
Will we get there?Only three years to go before the final deadline, how is Brazil doing in the race to reach the eight development goals set by the UN?
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Anthropologist and native people's rights activist Paulo Santilli talks about the advances of Brazilian policies for native peoples since the creation of SPI (Indian Protection Services) in 1910, and the challenges the Brazilian native population faces today. In 1967, SPI became FUNAI (Brazilian Agency for the Indians), which is about to celebrate its 45th anniversary.
Consultant speaks about the challenges and rewards of dealing with adversity in the corporate environment
Updating the education on Africa in Brazilian schools has been mandatory in Brazil since 2003. The challenge is to put the law into practice
Government and experts try to rein in the accelerated growth of child obesity in the country
A tool to help plan the consolidation of sustainable development based on cooperation between governments, companies and civil society organizations. Worldwide, the document signed in 1992 by 179 countries is in effect; in turn, it has provided the foundation for the creation of local Agendas 21 (nation-, state-, city-wide etc.)
In school we study that the native peoples living in Brazil before the discovery were nearly decimated when the Portuguese arrived. According to anthropologist Paulo Santilli, a population of 7 million natives was reduced to a mere 60,000.
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