2004/11/30
Poor black young people are victims of violence in Brazil
BRASILIA, Brazil - Poor and black young people are the main victims of violence in Brazil, with a rate of 27.8 killings per 100,000 inhabitants in 2001, which “places Brazil among the most violent countries in the world”, claims the NGO Social Watch.

2004/11/30
More deaths in Brazil due to violence than in the Middle East
(BRASILIA, 30 Nov, ANSA) - Murders of teenagers in Rio de Janeiro were 8 times higher than those of Palestinians in the Middle East between 1987 and 2001, according to a Social Watch report released in Brazil today, in which the unfair distribution of wealth in the country was also criticized.

2004/06/29
Brazil: at least 6.5 million people live in favelas
Miloon Kothari, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing highlighted that the very serious situation in Brazil with respect to homelessness, landlessness, housing deficit and housing inadequacy results from the historic discrimination against the black community and indigenous people, and the marginalization of the poor.

2004/04/13
A new approach to poverty. Why are some people rich?
Rio de Janeiro, April 13. After decades of focusing on poverty in the search for ways to fight the enormous rich-poor gap in Brazil, researchers are now turning their gaze towards the wealthy.

2003/12/04
Brazil non-profits see Lula missing social goals
BRASILIA, Brazil, Dec 4 (Reuters) - Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula will fail to achieve social goals and expose the nation to future financial shocks if he sticks to orthodox economic policy, Brazilian social groups said on Thursday.

2003/12/04
Launch of the Citizens' Observatory 2003 report,
Citizens’ Observatory/Social Watch and the Commission of External Relations and National Defense of the Senate invite to the launch of the Citizens’ Observatory 2003 report, "População pobre versus mercado", wich will take place at the Federal Senate, Brasilia, on December 4, 9:30 am.

2003/11/18
Dialogues against Racism
On November 18 Ibase organized the IV Dialogues against Racism that brought together forty civil society organizations. Actions that have proven effective in the combat against racial preconception in the country were introduced and ways were discussed to engage institutions, businesses and people in a single permanent coordination.