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Brazil in the Afterglow of its Awakening
Written by rodolfomohr
Twenty cents, that’s what we’re talking about. The massive mobilization of the Brazilian population in June was sparked off by the fight to get rid of the 20 cent hike in public transport fares. Students were the first to call for the marches, which this time had a new […]
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El agronegocio soyero: ¿a quién alimenta?
Written by Lucia Querejazu
Abstract: The Bolivian government is planning to expand the agricultural border from 3 million hectares to 13 million in twelve years. This raises two big questions: Where will these extra ten hectares be located? And what will be grown in them? If it is soy, as in the 37% of […]
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Mobile Banking in Myanmar: No Gold Rush Yet!
Written by Sophie Waldschmidt
This was the first time I bought something on the black market. Yet I would have expected to have to enter a semi-legal market for purchasing other items than a perfectly ordinary SIM card. But when the Myanmar government stopped issuing temporary SIM cards in July 2013, the only way […]
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Internet, Trade and Democracy: Transatlantic Relations under the Shadow of Surveillance
Written by Ole Wintermann
We cordially invite you to our public discussion, an event held within the initiative Globalization and the Internet, lead by Internet & Society Collaboratory and the blogger project FutureChallenges.org of the Bertelsmann Stiftung. The event – to be held mostly in English – will deal with the interactions between the Internet, trade and […]
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Stuck in the Middle of Nowhere: Life on under € 56 a Month
Written by Ilina Mangova
“I know it’s sinful, but sometimes I feel like committing suicide” are the words of a 66 years old woman I went to interview for this article in Skopje, Macedonia. Mona* suffers from hyperlipidaemia, heart problems, bronchitis and chronic sickness of the uterus. She has no way of paying for […]
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La nueva ley de las domésticas brasileñas: una lucha histórica
Written by Sara Martin
Abstract: Mrs. Creuza Maria Oliveira is the face of the struggle for labor rights of domestic workers in Brazil. President and leading activist of the FENATRAD (National Federation of Domestic Workers), Creuza has played a central role in the process of drafting the new constitutional law, approved last May by the […]
