By Shasta Darlington, CNN


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Brazil lifts ban on aborting brain-damaged fetuses

(Reuters) - Brazil's Supreme Court on Thursday voted to legalize abortions of severely brain-damaged fetuses, loosening the law in the world's biggest Catholic country and a region where the spread of evangelical denominations in recent decades has maintained fierce opposition to abortion rights ( Read more... )

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IN APRIL 2010, as part of a scheme to beautify the rundown port near the centre of Rio de Janeiro for the 2016 Olympic games, workers were replacing the drainage system in a shabby square when they found some old cans. The city called in archaeologists, whose excavations unearthed the ruins of Valongo, once Brazil’s main landing stage for African ( Read more... )

Brazil’s Insidious New Pregnancy Registration Law Violates the Privacy of Women

On December 27, while most Brazilians prepared for the New Year by bleaching their whites and gathering flowers to toss into the Atlantic for the goddess Iemanjá, Dilma Rousseff, Brazil’s first female president, was gathering a group a conservative legislators to ( Read more... )

Poor Brazilian women see job prospects widen
Source - BBC News
By Julia Dias Carneiro
BBC Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
12 August 2011 Last updated at 19:38 ET


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Role reversal: Latin America taunts U.S. on debt woes


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Women gain power in Brazil's Planalto palace
Brazil's first woman president now has ten women
in her cabinet, two short of her 30 per cent target.


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President Dilma Rousseff has suspended the distribution and production of sex education films for schools in Brazil ( Read more... )

Source:http://www.mymodernmet.com/profiles/blogs/when-obama-met-osama


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