March 2012
222 posts
Palestinian Children Learn the Brazilian Way →
malariamonsters:
Excerpt:
OLD CITY, EAST JERUSALEM, Mar 21, 2012 (IPS) - Standing under a canopy just inside Jerusalem’s Old City walls, a group of 20 Palestinian children are banging drums, clapping their hands and singing in Portuguese. This is capoeira, the traditional Afro-Brazilian sport that mixes dance, music and martial arts, and it is sweeping through the West Bank and East Jerusalem....
Global Slavery News: Joao Ribeiro, Brazil Senator,... →
slaverynews:
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil’s Supreme Court says it will try a senator on slave labor charges.
The Supreme Court says on its website that it will rule on the charges filed by the federal attorney general against Senator Joao Ribeiro, who allegedly kept more than 30 workers under slave-like…
Roberto Laudisio Curti, brazilian student died... →