2010年11月11日星期四

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Search for disappeared dissidents begins in Brazil (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 12:36 PM PST

AP - The Brazilian government has started searching a cemetery for the remains of political dissidents who disappeared during Brazil's former military dictatorship.

Brazil tests literacy of clown elected to Congress (AP)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 10:34 AM PST

AP - Grumpy the clown won election in a laugher, getting more votes than any other candidate for Brazil's Congress. Now he has to prove that he can read and write.

Brazil's Lula considers next steps (The Christian Science Monitor)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 09:40 AM PST

The Christian Science Monitor - Now that Dilma Rousseff has been elected as Brazil's new president, the big question in voters' minds is not only what she will do in her four-year term but what will become of her predecessor, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.

Indigenous and Riverbank Communities Call on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Suspend the Massive Belo Monte Dam in the Brazilian Amaz (PR Newswire)

Posted: 11 Nov 2010 05:30 AM PST

PR Newswire - WASHINGTON, Nov. 11, 2010 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today international and Brazilian human rights organizations submitted a formal petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), denouncing grave and imminent violations upon the rights of indigenous and riverine communities affected by the construction of Belo Monte Dam on the Xingu River in the Brazilian Amazon. Signed by the Xingu Alive Forever Movement and as well as representatives of affected communities, the petition urgently calls on the Commission to adopt "precautionary measures" that would compel the Brazilian government to halt the dam, slated to be world's 3rd largest.

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