Brazil

FIFA : Make the World Cup a Fair Game for Workers

Published in Wednesday July 17th, 2013 In Social movement news

Workers employed on construction projects to prepare for the 2018 World Cup in Russia and the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, most of whom are migrant workers, face numerous human rights violations, according to FIDH. In a letter sent today to the President of FIFA, Mr. Joseph Sepp Blatter, FIDH recalled the sports organisation’s responsibility to investigate and remedy reports that workers are being subject to unfair payment practices, excessive work hours, racist violence, and work conditions that can amount to forced labour.

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Water and Sanitation: UN special rapporteur’s visit to Brazil cancelled by the Government

Published in Wednesday July 10th, 2013 In News on the Rapporteurs

The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to water and sanitation, Catarina de Albuquerque informs that her visit to Brazil, originally planned to take place from 09 to 19 July was cancelled yesterday by the Brazilian Government.

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Brazil Tramples Poor Citizens In Its Rush To Glory

Published in Tuesday July 2nd, 2013

Brazil wanted this to be their moment in the sun — hosting the World Cup and the Olympics was meant to show the country at its best. Instead, the spotlight is being shone on glaring inequality and a culture that invests in glossy stadiums while displacing its poor. To listen to the interview, click here.

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Subscribe the appeal: Piquiá wants to live!

Published in Friday June 28th, 2013 In Mobilisation and agenda

We ask your help: click here to e-mail to the Mayor of Açailândia, to the Government and the General Attorney of Justice of Maranhão, northeastern Brazil, to say no more pollution killing the 1,100 residents of Piquiá de Baixo, no more excuses to delay their resettlement!

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Report on the São Paulo Consultation on Security of Tenure

Published in Wednesday June 26th, 2013 In News on the Rapporteurs

The event organized in São Paulo on June 17th, 2013, was attended by 28 people from different regions of the country, including representatives from government, academia, NGOs that work with technical and legal support to urban communities, and social movements.

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The Last Word: Mr Blatter, the party’s over

Published in Wednesday June 26th, 2013 In In the media

Empty rhetoric, regurgitated by grandees such as Sepp Blatter, has been rejected by those who want schools and hospitals rather than bread and circuses.

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Housing evictions, social services cited in broadening Brazil protests

Published in Tuesday June 25th, 2013

As the protests in Brazil continue, one of the primary issues that has emerged is the vast sums of money and resources the government is allocating for several high profile sporting events. Demonstrators say that vital services, like healthcare, education and transportation remain underfunded while Brazil is on pace to spend up to $40 billion dollars on the upcoming World Cup soccer tournament.

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Brazil is saying what we could not: we don’t want these costly extravaganzas

Published in Friday June 21st, 2013 In In the media

Brazil has been bamboozled into blowing $13bn on next year’s football World Cup, and then on a similar sum to be later extorted by the International Olympic Committee to host the 2016 Games. Brazil’s leftwing leader, Dilma Rousseff, was bequeathed the games by her predecessor, Lula da Silva. She has desperately tried to side with the protesters, but she is trapped by the oligarchs of Fifa and the IOC.

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Brazil’s Poor Pay World Cup Penalty

Published in Wednesday June 19th, 2013 In In the media

On June 15, the opening day of the Confederations Cup in Brazil — a warmup to the World Cup — thousands protested across the country against the amount of money being spent to host these mega-events. With signs that said “We don’t need the World Cup” and “We need money for hospitals and education”, protesters were sprayed with tear gas and dispersed with rubber bullets before the opening match in Brasilia. At least 39 were injured and 30 were arrested. Inside the stadium, president Dilma Roussef was booed as she inaugurated the Brazil-Japan match. Today, June 17, there are protests going on all over the country.

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Brazil protests take to the pitch as People’s Cup highlights evictions

Published in Wednesday June 19th, 2013 In In the media

Physically, it’s only a few kilometres away from the Maracanã stadium, but in symbolism, the People’s Cup could not be much further removed from the mega sporting events now being staged in Rio de Janeiro and other Brazilian cities.

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