Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Agence France-Presse – Global Post – Tuesday, 05 March 2013 (originally published 21 Feb) More than 3,000 female farm workers from around Brazil marched in Brasilia Thursday to demand an end to rural violence against women and measures to assist them. “Violence against women in rural areas is a silent reality. We know it exists [...]
Fabiana Frayssinet – IPS – 04 January 2013 RIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 4 2013 (IPS) – Anarkia Boladona has turned the streets of Brazil into billboards against domestic violence. As a self-titled feminist political graffiti artist, she represents a new trend in women’s rights that seeks less academic and more daring and popular avenues of [...]
Jen Swales – Miami Herald – Monday, 25 June 2012 (originally published 18 Jun) RIO DE JANEIRO — When 19-year-old Paloma Cristina Terra’s boyfriend, Felipe, left her, she was terrified. Five months pregnant at the time, she had no idea how she’d support herself. Like many young women from Rio de Janeiro’s poorest slums, she’d [...]
Helena Dalli – Times of Malta – Wednesday, 4 April 2012 (originally published 2 April) Dom Hélder Câmara, who tirelessly worked with the poorest in Brazil and for this was known as the bishop of the slums, is often quoted for when he said: “When I give to the poor, they call me a saint. [...]
Carla Simoes and Andre Soliani – Bloomberg – Tuesday, 13 March 2012 (originally published 08 Mar) Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, the first woman to head the world’s sixth-biggest economy, plans to increase women’s property rights in cases of divorce to mark International Women’s Day. Women who earn as much as 1,866 reais ($1,060) a month [...]
