city:rio de janeiro

Brazilian Police Evict Indigenous Squatters from 2014 Stadium Site
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2013/04/brazilian-police-evict-indigenous-squatters-from-2014-stadium-site/100491

As Brazil prepares to host the 2014 World Cup, massive construction and reconstruction is taking place, and residents living near stadium sites have faced a series of evictions and relocations. In Rio de Janeiro, a group of indigenous people have been squatting in abandoned structure near the famous Maracana Stadium since about 2006.

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/rio041013/s_r14_19934870.jpg
A man wearing a headdress and another wearing a ski mask sit on a windowsill on the site of the old Indian museum, with a view of Maracana Stadium, on January 12, 2013. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
#brésil #football #stade #expulsion #photographie

IPS – Invisible War Decimates Brazil’s Youth | Inter Press Service
http://www.ipsnews.net/2013/03/invisible-war-decimates-brazils-youth

The report [“Map of Violence 2013: Deaths by Firearm”], released late Wednesday Mar. 6 in Rio de Janeiro [and] produced for the Brazilian Centre for Latin American Studies (CEBELA) and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO) [is] based on official figures. It counts 799,226 deaths by firearm in Brazil from 1980 to 2010. Of that total, 450,255 were young people between the ages of 15 and 29.

This “invisible slaughter” is equivalent to the total official number of people killed in armed conflicts in 12 countries, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan and Colombia, in the critical years of 2004 to 2007, the Map says.

Killings of environmentalists appear on rise; conflict over shrinking resources intensifies - The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/killings-of-environmentalists-appear-on-rise-conflict-over-shrinking-resources-intensifies/2012/06/20/gJQAzkgepV_story.html

A report released Tuesday by the London-based Global Witness said more than 700 people — more than one a week — died in the decade ending 2011 “defending their human rights or the rights of others related to the environment, specifically land and forests.” They were killed, the environmental investigation group says, during protests or investigations into mining, logging, intensive agriculture, hydropower dams, urban development and wildlife poaching.

The death toll reached 96 in 2010 and 106 last year, said the report, which was released as world leaders gathered in Rio de Janeiro for a conference on sustainable development. The report’s annual totals for the six prior years range from 37 in 2004 to 64 in 2008.

#environnement #répression #assassinats

TTYtter | le blog à Ollie
http://www.oliviertripet.com/blogollie/2011/05/ttytter

un client #Twitter en Perl!

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#cli #linux via @keltounet

Chevron staff charged over Brazil oil spill - Americas - Al Jazeera English
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/03/20123225656977253.html

Federal prosecutors in Brazil have filed criminal charges against 17 Chevron and Transocean company executives over an oil leak in the Atlantic Ocean in November 2011.

Prosecutors on Wednesday accused the executives of environmental crimes, of misleading Brazil’s oil regulator about their safety plans and not providing accurate information in the wake of the spill.

At least 416,000 litres of oil seeped through cracks on the ocean floor near a Chevron appraisal well off the Rio de Janeiro coast.

The federal prosecutors’ office in Rio de Janeiro said in an emailed statement that the two companies and 17 of its executives had been charged with “crimes against the environment.”

If found guilty, the executives could face up to 31 years in prison.

#crime_contre_l'environnement #pétrole #Brésil #pollution

European Exodus Reverses Well-Worn Migration Patterns - WSJ.com
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203550304577137174048327642.html

Economic distress is driving tens of thousands of skilled professionals from Europe, and many are being lured to thriving former European colonies in Latin America and Africa, reversing well-worn migration patterns. Asia and Australia, as well as the U.S. and Canada, are absorbing others leaving the troubled euro zone.

At the same time, an influx of Third World immigrants whose labor helped fuel Europe’s growth over the past decade is subsiding. Hundreds of thousands of them, including some white-collar professionals, have been returning home.

#migration

Inexcusable evictions in Rio
http://squattercity.blogspot.com/2011/12/inexcusable-evictions-in-rio.html

Rio de Janeiro is using the coming World Cup and Olympics as an excuse to demolish major swathes of favelas in the Zona Sul—the tourist zone of the city. These videos—at once jaw-droppingly awful and incredibly inspiring—tell the story. Note, in the second video, about the community called Pavao Pavaozinho, that you can see the beachfront highrises out peoples’ windows. This shows just how valuable the real estate is in these areas.

http://www.thepolisblog.org/2011/12/resisting-evictions-before-brazil-world.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RadQ4R3Rg-I

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XqueXdp__xc

#brésil #logement #expulsions #favelas, coupe du monde de #football #cdp

Brazil suspends Chevron’s drilling activities - Americas - Al Jazeera English
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2011/11/201111240404468280.html

The Brazilian government has suspended Chevron’s drilling rights in the country until it clarifies the causes of an offshore oil spill, those responsible for the disaster are identified and safety conditions are restored in the area.

http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/Images/2011/11/24/2011112405132119734_20.jpg

#Brésil #pétrole

World Cup / Olympics: who benefits? | squattercity
http://squattercity.blogspot.com/2011/06/who-benefits.html

With the World Cup in 2014 and the Olympics two years later, it seems that authorities in Rio de Janeiro are following a well-worn path: remaking the city in ways that help the rich and hurt the poor.

http://direitoamoradia.org/assets/304/rio_-_transcarioca_normal.jpg
#sport #urbanisme #inégalités #JO

#Brazil to step up crackdown on #biopiracy in 2011
http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/60675

“Given that (fighting biopiracy) is a new process and that Brazil has one of the biggest reserves of biodiversity in the world, I think most of this activity is illegal, and we’re going to find those people,” (...) examples of biopiracy abound, such as the development in the 1970s of the hypertension medication captopril from a snake venom that indigenous groups used on arrowhead tips.
Pharmaceuticals companies also used the yellow-and-green Kambo frog, found in Brazil’s Amazon state of Acre, to create anti-inflammatory drugs without distributing benefits to local residents, he said. Many of these incidents came before a 2001 decree that created the current rules governing species use.
(...) One of the biggest fines levied so far was on Brazil’s largest cosmetics maker Natura
(...)
Critics say Brazil’s often aggressive efforts to prevent biopiracy threaten to slow crucial scientific #research that could provide new #cancer treatments or remedies for diseases suffered by local populations.

alors, cancer ou cosmétiques ?