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The barons of the Brazilian meat blackmail the government

23 August 2011

The barons of Brazilian beef are blackmailing the government of Paraguay on land inhabited by uncontacted tribes.

Last year the Indians Ayoreo have obtained the right to ownership of land, but farmers refuse to recognize it unless it is allowed to deforestare a large area adjacent to the disputed land, already in their possession.

50 Anniversary of Independence of the request of West Papua: fear of repression

30 November 2011

The Papuan pro-independence demonstrations organized capillaries next Thursday, to coincide with the 50 years since they raised for the first time their symbolic flag of the "Morning Star". On the anniversary looms because a climate of fear in Indonesia continues to brutally suppress any opposition derisory sentences and fines for the security forces responsible for violence.

Wave the flag became a symbol of the struggle for the independence of West Papua since it was first flown at December 1, 1961, is punishable as a crime of treason.

Children's Day: worsen the living conditions of children in Italy

17 November 2011

Children pay the highest price of the crisis: 1,876,000 living in poverty, 18.6% in conditions of material deprivation. It widens the gap between South and Central North

There are 10 million 229 thousand children in Italy, 16.9% of the total population, 1,876,000 of them living in poverty and 18.6% in conditions of material deprivation. A planet in Italy childhood that aging is reduced even more. Naples, Caserta, Barletta-Andria-Trani provinces are in fact the only "green" Italian where the percentage of young people under 15 years remains on the majority over 65.
The economic crisis is likely to weigh particularly on children and adolescents, in the absence of specific measures of protection. Moreover, from 2008 to today, are the families with children to have paid the highest price of the largest global recession in recent years the percentage of low-income families with 1 child is increased by 1, 8%, and three times as much (5.7%) to those with 2 or more children. This detects the second Atlas of the Child (at risk), released by Save the Children on the eve of Day of the Child: over 150 pages and 80 maps that return a lot of information about the condition of children and adolescents of our country: the cities and territories they live in, child poverty, by green spaces and play available to urban, from school drop-in social spending and childcare. This year, the Atlas, on the occasion of the celebrations of 150 years from the unification of Italy, also includes a discussion of nearly one hundred boys who participated in the expedition of Garibaldi's one thousand, even a way to compare the "Young Italy" of that time with the current one.

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