Tag: UN
World’s Top Slave Importer, Brazil Wants to Preserve a Marketplace that Sold Africans
A wharf in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro used as a marketplace ...
13 Years Later, After Contributing 37,000 Troops, Brazil Is Ready to Leave Haiti
After 13 years of operations and numerous announcements about the closure date, the Brazilian ...
Brazil Leads UNIFIL, a Task Force to Keep Peace Between Lebanon and Israel
The Maritime Task Force (FTM, per its Portuguese acronym) of the United Nations Interim ...
Brazil Gets Title of World’s Number One Killer of Indians and Environmentalists
Over the last 15 years, Brazil has seen the highest number of killings of ...
Brazil Cuts Poverty, But Human Rights Are Still a Serious Problem
Virtually all of the 169 recommendations made to Brazil by the UN Human Rights ...
Made-in-Brazil Banned Cluster Bombs Are Maiming and Killing in the Middle East
On 15 February 2017, the Saudi Arabia-led coalition fired Brazilian-manufactured cluster munitions on three ...
Brazil President Tells UN She Wants More Power for Developing Countries
President Dilma Rousseff criticized on September 24 the delay in providing developing countries with ...
Brazil Signs Agreement with UN to Take Care of Its 7,000 Refugees
The Brazilian Federal Prosecution Service (MPF, in the Portuguese acronym) and the United Nations ...
With UN’s Help Brazil Becomes Center of Fight Against Global Hunger
Brazil and the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) have joined forces to launch ...
First Woman to Open UN General Assembly, Brazil President to Defend Palestine’s Statehood
Dilma Rousseff, the president of Brazil, will become on Wednesday the first woman ever ...
