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Poor Women in Brazil Sing Their Own Desire
Written by Yohana de Andrade
Injustice and inequality are no strangers for most of the women living in poor communities in cities across Brazil. They have to face long hours on public transport to get to work, they must struggle to find the work / family balance (an awful but still valid cliché) and manage […]
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Yohana de Andrade
Yohana is a Brazilian journalist. Interested in human rights, feminism and anything related to “minorities.” After study globalization issues in Washington, D.C., thanks to a scholarship, Yohana received a degree in Journalism and now is a content producer for internet and new technologies. Her dream would be live in a borderless world.
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How to Empower Women through Religion
Written by Yohana de Andrade
Gaia by Anselm Feuerbach. Image in public domain. This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013 to accompany a session on “Can Religion Help Solve Global Problems?” Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org. If religions could be defined by a gender, they would definitely be female. You can go to any […]
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Why Brazil should be interested in regional integration?
Written by Yohana de Andrade
Brazil was under almost 400 years of Portuguese influence, and only at the beginning of the 20th century did the country begin to form its own foreign policy. Most of its foreign policy was predicated on the North-South axis. However, with Lula as president in 2003, the country began not […]
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Catholicism Is Still Embedded in Brazilian Society — How Can We Take Advantage of That?
Written by Yohana de Andrade
This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013 to accompany a session on “Can Religion Help Solve Global Problems?” Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org. World Youth Day took place in Rio de Janeiro, and Pope Francisco was in Brazil. Although it was his first visit, Catholicism has been interconnected with […]
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When Politics Help Religion and Religion Helps Politics
Written by Yohana de Andrade
This post was produced for the Global Economic Symposium 2013 to accompany a session on “Can Religion Help Solve Global Problems?” Read more at http://blog.global-economic-symposium.org/. In 1999, during a hot spring week, as weeks usually are in Bahia, Brazil, Gildásia dos Santos e Santos began to live her last months on […]
