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Ending coziness: A new status for domestic workers in Brazil
Written by Aline Marsicano Figueiredo
A nation essentially dedicated to agriculture for so long has to face some serious challenges when modernization touches rural areas and expels the people who live there. “The city is, more than ever, a poverty pole”, says Milton Santos, a Brazilian geographer in “A Urbanização Brasileira”(“Urbanization in Brazil”), a place whose […]
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Aline Marsicano Figueiredo
Having grown up during the (re)democratization of Brazil, topics such as democratic institutions, freedom of speech, civil disobedience, and governance matters have always drawn my attention, which was complemented by a growing awareness of the feminist transversal perspective on several of these topics. While in Sciences-Po, I was able to contribute a few times with the Paris Globalist, which was both a great opportunity to explore writing about some of these topics and a motivation to join Future Challenges. Currently, I work at the Ethos Institute of Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability in the area of Institutional Affairs. I am especially involved with anti-corruption matters in both the private and the public sector, working in partnership with several major companies and the UN Global Compact to influence public policy and also, regarding the private sector more specifically, with compliance and integrity matters.
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The future we want and the future we’re actually working for
Written by Aline Marsicano Figueiredo
In 2000, all United Nations Member States, aiming at combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation, and discrimination against women, adopted the eight Millennium Development Goals. The established framework had a clear deadline: 2015. Yet despite important progress in several countries, there is still a great deal to be done. […]
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Brazil: The fallacy of perfect equilibrium
Written by Aline Marsicano Figueiredo
The current climate of upheaval and commotion took Brazilian decisionmakers by surprise. This is partly because the government so far has been a little too comfortable with the state of things as they are. Up to present, all their press releases and interviews have revealed nothing but coolness and complacency […]
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Migration in South America: the Many Colors of Brazil
Written by Aline Marsicano Figueiredo
In Brazil, immigration regains a central position in public debates as Bolivians arrive in increasingly greater numbers, revealing a renewed potential for Latin American integration. The result is a promising cultural blend that will add to the already very effervescent Brazilian milieu.
