Tag: children
Infant Mortality Falls in Brazil While Killing of Youngsters Shoots Up
Violence affects Brazilian children and adolescents in different ways. Consequently, different instruments and programs ...
Brazil Says Is Trying to Catch Up on Its Debt to Its Youngsters
Brazil’s National Youth Secretary, Beto Cury, said that the Brazilian State has a debt ...
Two-Thirds of Brazil’s 32 Million Youths Are Poor Who Need More than Food
Brazil government’s policies for young people, concentrated on the war against poverty and hunger, ...
Brazil Uses Soccer Imagery to Vaccinate 16 Million Against Polio
Consolidated data from the first phase of Brazil’s National Vaccination Campaign Against Child Paralysis, ...
In 12 Years, Brazil’s Infant Mortality Drops from 50 to 29 Per 1000
An original study conducted by Brazil’s Ministry of Health demonstrated that the Family Health ...
More than 1 Million Children Between 5 and 9 Years Old Work in Brazil
Brazil’s National Residential Sample Survey (Pnad 2003/IBGE) found that the biggest decrease in the ...
Buenos Aires Declaration Decries Violence Against Children in Latin America
The family and State institutions are the main settings where Latin American children and ...
Brazil Needs to Learn to Set Goals and Apologize
At the beginning of 2003, when I was Brazil’s Minister of Education, I suggested ...
Brazil Wants to Reduce Mother and Baby Mortality by 15%
To mark World Health Day, commemorated today, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the ...
A Unicef Seal to Help 8 Million Poor Kids from Brazil
Brazil’s cabinet ministers, state governors, mayors, NGO and business leaders yesterday launched an unprecedented ...
