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members CONCEA legislation Barriguda Project - Quilombola Capoeira Community SNCT 2021 2022 2023 2024 Brain Week 2024 Career Suppliers Open doors News Press room Neuroengineering Symposium Day of the Care Network for people with disabilities Neurogenic Bladder Journey Science Fair - SNCT Neural Mechanisms of Cognitive Function Qualification as a social organization Management contract with MEC and transfers Federal Control Bodies Management contract report Institutional Documents They were accompanied by the coordinator of the Science and Robotics workshop and during the visit they were able to see how the planting process takes place and observe whether or not electromechanical equipment is used by closely observing the community's processes the students were able to better understand how the community organization of producers is formed and pay attention to the challenges of the community living in a place without access to running water and which makes intensive use of cisterns During the time they spent in Barra do Vento they were able to learn about building vegetable gardens geographical aspects of the local landscape and small crop fields During the visit, the students were at the home of a farmer registered with the National School Feeding Program (Pnae) and participated in a conversation circle with Jucicleide Ramos president of the local Community Association who explained how the entity works and how important it is for the community's residents it was possible to compare the automated irrigation projects for vegetable gardens built by the Science and Robotics Workshop at CEC Serrinha with the technologies used by producers in the community Gedeão explains that the expected objectives of the activity were achieved: “We realized that most of the students enjoyed the experience They understood the importance of the Association and also expressed themselves in relation to their experiences with the countryside and family farming.” Communication Officecomunicacao@isd.org.br(84) 99416-1880 Rural Area / CEP 59288-899Macaíba/RN – Brazil The Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa Alberto Santos Dumont is a Social Organization qualified by the Ministry of Education through Presidential Decree of February 27 Pretinho da Serrinha has become the most requested musician of the new samba generation because of his unique talented way of playing percussion and cavaco (cavaquinho) Many of the greatest Brazilian artists have invited Pretinho to tour and record with them – names like Caetano Veloso Friends with many great musicians and he has that magic to take a musical piece to a different view Please enter an answer in digits:six − four = Four cities in Brazil have committed to the Sustainable School program whose goal is to achieve 100 percent plant-based menus in their school cafeterias and Teofilândia signed the agreement on March 19 Schools have committed to being completely plant-based by the end of 2019 The Sustainable School program is based on the right to health and food which is provided for in the Federal Constitution and Law 11477/2009 school performance and the formation of students’ healthy eating habits.” Although the interpretation of this law is rather open-ended Sustainable School’s creators have determined that plant-based school lunches contribute to that goal The program began with four days of plant-based culinary training for the cities’ school cooks, led by a chef from Humane Society International The vegan chef taught local school cooks how to prepare affordable nutrient-dense recipes made from accessible meat and other animal products will be phased out gradually with a 25 percent reduction each semester until they reach their goal of 100 percent plant-based meals Schools will begin with one meatless day per week The changes are expected to impact more than 30,000 students in 435 lunchrooms serving more than 23 million meals annually Although animal products will not be made available in the schools Families who still want their children to have meat and dairy at school are permitted to send packed lunches Even study subjects who did not fully adhere to the plant-based diet lost more weight than those involved in omnivorous weight loss plans This means that health benefits can result from plant-based diets even without perfect adherence A study from Loma Linda University shows that plant-based diets are more sustainable than diets containing animal products because they use fewer natural resources and are less environmentally devastating Cows and sheep produce 80 percent of all agriculture-related greenhouse gas emissions omnivorous diets require up to 2.9 times more water and 1.4 times more pesticides when compared to vegetarian diets they are also better for the environment than diets that contain animal products The first two years of the program are considered the experimental phase Students will undergo periodic health evaluations to determine the efficacy of the program https://www.mpba.mp.br/noticia/41698 Public Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Bahia https://twitter.com/mpdabahia The  Sustainable School program was partially inspired by the Meatless Monday campaign, which has been adopted by schools across the United States as well as in some other countries. 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Read more here: https://nycfoodpolicy.org/write-nyc-food-policy-center/ Copyright © 2021 Hunter College New York City Food Policy Center Consanguineous marriages bring about an unknown form of deficiency in a Northeast town EDUARDO CESARA family member with one of the 26 people: affected by the syndrome: recessive illnessEDUARDO CESAR Some fifteen years ago Elenara Maria de Queiroz Moura was pregnant– and a scene from a soap opera would not go out of her head A couple who were cousins wanted to have children and looked for a gynecologist the television soap opera doctor was tacit: it’s better to avoid a pregnancy Consanguineous marriages show a higher risk of generating children with some kind of hereditary disorder some 370 km to the west of the state capital Natal where marrying a relative is a local custom And there were in the family “handicapped” uncles confined to wheel chairs due to a mysterious disorder stiffens the joints and then weakens first the legs and then the arms “I was relieved and thought that everything was alright” “I became pregnant with my second child without having any fear” But the story of Paulinha a neurodegenerative disorder recently discovered among the inhabitants of the small town and described in May by researchers from the Human Genome Studies Center of the Clinical Hospital of the University of Sao Paulo (USP) in an article published in the North American magazine Annals of Neurology As yet it is unknown on which gene the mutation occurs that causes the disorder but the scientists have analyzed DNA samples of 74 of the town’s inhabitants and the results of the study indicate that the SPOAN gene can be found in the region of chromosome 11 The problem is that there exist at least 143 genes in this region almost one hundred genes are candidates for causing the disorder “We’re mapping the gene region or district where it is found” the coordinator of the work on the new disorder who heads up the Human Genome Studies Center Innovation and Diffusion Centers (Cepid) funded through FAPESP the gene linked to the syndrome.” With luck the USP team hopes to have isolated the gene and identified the mutation that causes SPOAN the scientists are going to make a pre-natal test capable of detecting the presence of the mutation in babies still in gestation and identify the heterozygote individuals of this genetic anomaly (healthy people but who could have children with this disorder) “Up until now there is not a single neurological disorder associated with genes in this region of chromosome 11” says the doctorate student Lucia Inês Macedo-Souza given the responsibility of finding the “house” where the molecular base of SPOAN is found one is not simply talking of the inhabitants of Serrinha Up until now the scientists have identified 26 people living with SPOAN of whom 17 are women and 9 are men All of the individuals affected are white Caucasians probably of Portuguese or perhaps Dutch descent The majority still live in their native town and all of them are descendants of related couples “We examined patients of various ages with the syndrome the main person responsible for the unprecedented pathology discovery who is receiving a post-doctoral grant from FAPESP the illness in itself is not fatal and maintains the thinking capacity of the patients intact It does not bring about mental retardation But its effects on the quality of life of those affected Above all in a rural population and one short of health services such as Serrinha dos Pintos the origin of the illness to be hereditary syphilis of an ancient and ancestral womenizer that has been spread through  family blood (see chart on page 42) Here there is no physiotherapy service to minimize the problems of posture coming from the paraplegia associated with the illness and the victims of the syndrome live secluded from day to day happenings totally dependent on the care of their family nobody takes medicine to reduce the rigidity and the weakening of legs and arms With the interminable energy that only children appear to have the girl manages to get about with the help of a walker on wheels SPOAN classified itself among the heredity recessive autosomal disorders Men and women have the same probability of presenting the pathology in spite of the number of cases known in Serrinha being greater among the female sex A person will only develop SPOAN if the two copies of the as yet unknown gene associated with the syndrome one coming from the father and the other from the mother carry the mutation that leads to the health problem Therefore the parents of a patient with SPOAN are necessarily heterozygotes They are carriers of the gene in only one of the two copies of the gene But they can transmit it to their offspring Sons and daughters of heterozygotes participate involuntarily in a game of biological Russian roulette of inheriting the two copies of the gene with the mutation; 50% risk of only being a carrier of the mutation in one of the gene copies; and 25% risk of not being a carrier of having no alteration in the two copies of the SPOAN gene being healthy and incapable of passing on the mutation “One in every 250 of the Serrinha population has the illness and one in every nine is a heterozygote for this condition” who carried out the clinical and neurological description of the SPOAN symptoms Trembling eyes During the first months of life the recently born attacked by the illness do not show any clinical symptom of SPOAN perceptible only to those who have had a history of the illness in the family: the children show “trembling eyes” These abnormal and involuntary movements of the ocular globe resulting from the congenital atrophy of the optical nerve reduce the field of vision of those effected To this ocular malfunction the doctors have given the name of nystagmus “They manage to see the fingers of a hand at a maximum distance of two meters” fifty seven year old Maria Inês de Queiroz had six children of whom three died while still babies and three are alive who for most of the day are looked after their healthy sister The mother of the house remembers having seen the tremor in the eyes of one of her sons when he was four months old who sold clothes and lived for a decade in the city of Sao Paulo Her memories of life in the city   are not of the best “I spent ten years going from one doctor to the next There was a pediatrician who told me that Marquinhos was healthy – and that I was the sick one” Marquinhos is the endearing name that family and friends use when referring to the youngest in the family like his thirty-nine year-old older brother Probably the doctors thought that Marquinhos was normal because the boy walked until he was ten years old The only thing was that he walked with difficulty and his mother knew that Similar stories are not rare among the Serrinha families who have relatives with the new syndrome among the people who have lived with the SPOAN sick A progressive spastic paraparesis of the lower and upper limbs – difficult terms of the medical language that mean the continuous stiffening and weakening of the legs and arms – is one of the clinical signatures of the syndrome Another is progressive lesions of the motor and sensorial neurons damage that further diminishes body movements and reflexes in spite of not managing to move the legs spontaneously almost all of the patients react abruptly when they hear unexpected sounds: they produce involuntary contractions in the muscles of the lower limbs Some inhabitants of the town say that certain children who were affected had already been born more or less “unsteady” without a lot of firmness to sit up or even to crawl But even these sick children generally more precociously fragile The paralysis normally reaches the arms a short time later at the end of adolescence or around twenty years of age who had never been given any form of physiotherapy “I had put on high heeled shoes to help Sarinha to walk” a sixty-seven-year-old widow whose husband “She walked almost without falling until she was eight years of age” When a child and the use of the high heeled shoes had serves her as support To meet up with Dona Loló in the small Rio Grande de Norte town is easy located at the side of an Evangelical church almost at the exit of the town in the direction of Martins the neighboring municipality from which Serrinha dos Pintos separated in 1993 sitting next to her daughters: Sara and Eda both with SPOAN and in their wheel chairs; Tranquilina her granddaughter who has psychiatric problems and does not stay long in any one place; and Iza the only one of her five daughters without health problems died of cerebral aneurism in 1999 when she was 46 years old who had attended school until the old six grade level and knows how to read and write I would have tried to forget Francisco and find somebody else” says the zealous mother without much conviction These days Dona Loló gets up at 5:30 in the morning to make breakfast and wash and cloth her sick daughters who is in the most delicate condition and who awakens with tremors typical of the abstinence syndrome Eda takes another dose of the tranquilizer and Sara Dona Loló guarantees that she herself had already given up this habit although she did not deny that she returns to taking the tranquilizer on more difficult days “The girls become nervous for any problem” Nervous is an adjective often used by the families of the victims of SPOAN in order to describe the behavior of the sick It’ impossible to know since when patients families and other people in the town have been consuming medicines that are controlled That the practice is of long standing and institutionalized “We have 345 people registered at the city hall to receive says the pedagogue and ex-community agent José Antonio Queiroz today Serrinha’s municipal secretary of health This is almost 10% of the local population Some townsfolk say that the number of tranquilizer users is Fernandes and Dias family names Situated in a region of mountains of modest size Serrinha dos Pintos has a pleasant climate for a place that the maps locate in the interior of the Northeast Caatinga (shrubland) with an average temperature lower than 25°C In spite of the almost 400 kilometers that separate it from Natal From the state capital one can arrive in this little known piece of Rio Grande do Norte by way of paved roads and potholes are not a problem during the journey when it was still a part of its neighbor Martins From the initial inhabitants of this extensive rural property practically all of the current population are descendants with Queiroz the vegetation at this time of the year is abundant and the plants show hues of green normally not associated by the citizens of the south to a semi-arid area But its town center is clean and the streets are paved with stones Probably in the backland small farms the situation may well be more precarious says the teacher Leidmar Fernandes de Queiroz a twenty-year old girl with SPOAN and with a beautiful smile For the hospitalized and humble people of Serrinha from whose houses one does not leave without having taken a cup of coffee or having tried a corn cake or piece of salted meat They plant corn and beans and remove the nuts from the cashew tree there is the alternative of getting a job at the city hall There are no banks in the town and the closest bank branch is in Martins The pensions of the oldest citizens and the money coming from federal programs such as Family Grant ( Bolsa Família) are also important sources of family income those handicapped with SPOAN (and other pathologies) have been pensioned off and therefore also help to reinforce the household income But the most of the city revenues do not come from some local economic activity It comes from a federal grant known as the Municipalities Participation Fund with an annual value that runs to about R$ 2 million In the 2003 registers of the National Traffic Department there are around 300 vehicles with the town’s number plate and almost two thirds of them are motorcycles the motorcycle stand out in the local countryside Serrinha has been able to count upon a hospital The building of the Mista Terezinha Maria de Jesus unit planned to be a hybrid of hospital and health clinic was ready in November last and is partially in operation it is underused and the town doesn’t have the money to make it work completely The reason: built with federal cash contrived with the support of a Rio Grande de Norte politician of some influence in Brasilia according to the municipal secretary of health was conceived for a town of 20,000 inhabitants five times greater that the local population it’s a lot of nuts for a small cashew tree like Serrinha Almost all of its most sophisticated equipment such as the X-ray machine The present electrical circuit for the building cannot support the equipment The majority of the medical rooms are empty “It’s going to be difficult for us to make all of the hospital operational” the municipal secretary of health states frankly One cannot say that a mixed unit does not work because two general clinical doctors and two dentists provide service during the week in the ample sized building also frequented by the personnel of the health clinic and by a cardiologist who fortnightly attends to the town’s citizens the townsfolk have to fall back on the services of the neighboring towns Every fortnight a van with patients sets out for the state capital A “family problem” If the researchers no longer have any doubts that the SPOAN syndrome is a recessive genetic disorder inherited by some offspring of consanguineous marriages of Serrinha dos Pintos the parents of the sick still do not think that way They attribute the genesis of all of the cases of the syndrome to a “family problem” — to hypothetical hereditary syphilis that had attacked them some 150 years ago and spread through their blood to their descendents “My grandparents told me that the problem came from the Days of the Cattle Water Hole” tells sixty-five-year old Laurita Firmino de Queiroz is pointed to as the depository of the origin of the physically handicapped The parents of those affected by SPOAN also suggest that their children had only began to have greater difficulties of movement after having been the victim of some traumatic event in their childhood Dona Laurita remembered that her 43-year-old son attempting to explain his very own difficulty of movement the thesis that family blood could be the agent of the hereditary transmission of an illness such as SPOAN could be valid during the 19th century with the advance of science this idea can no longer be told as science attributes the cause of the pathology to a genetic mutation still persists in the minds of many people above all in a locality of simple people such as Serrinha “One of our challenges is to explain to the town’s population who in August will launch a book with respect to how laypersons understand the concepts of genetic heritage “The people need to understand the significance of being a heterozygote for an illness such as SPOAN and also which are the repercussions of the eventual development of a pre-natal test capable of identifying © Revista Pesquisa FAPESP - All rights reserved. , opens new tab, Bunge (BG.N), opens new tab Louis Dreyfus and COFCO.'SOYBEANS DON'T COME WITH A BRAND'When asked about possible sourcing of soy grown illegally on Indigenous land Cotrisal's Debona said that it is impossible to trace the origin of 100% of its grain purchases."We can't guarantee," he said in an interview "Soybeans don't come with a brand."Cotrisal did not respond to emailed requests for further comment Cotrijal said it had not bought grains from farmers leasing lands in Serrinha and that it does not operate in the area.Over the years global agricultural companies have made assurances about respecting land rights and human rights highlighting their attention to Indigenous communities in annual sustainability statements.ADM made no mention of Indigenous rights or land disputes in its most recent corporate sustainability report last year the company noted the pervasiveness of land disputes in South America and said that it is not directly implicated in any land disputes The 2022 report did not discuss cultivation on Indigenous reserves.In an email to Reuters ADM said it had investigated the news agency's findings and found no evidence that the soy it purchased had been raised on lands leased on the Nonoai and Serrinha reservations."We do not source any grains from Indigenous territories in the Rio Grande do Sul region," Jackie Anderson buying from large farmer cooperatives in southern Brazil can obscure the origin of grains according to six lawsuits filed between 2008 and 2022 by federal prosecutors on behalf of the tribes At least two of the cases are ongoing.Bunge COFCO and Louis Dreyfus did not respond to requests for comment and referred questions to the national soy industry group Abiove."Cotrijal and Cotrisal declared to us they don't buy grains produced on the reservations of Nonoai and Serrinha," Abiove said in an email.Abiove said its members are pushing the cooperatives to ensure their supply chains conform with laws and contractual obligations against buying grains from protected territories.Andre Nassar said in a separate statement that traders can "stop all purchases" from a cooperative if it becomes clear that it is sourcing soy from reservations.Nassar said traders can also ask cooperatives for assurances that the soybeans were raised by members of the Indigenous community – and not leased to third parties.Abiove did not respond to Reuters' questions on whether its members ever turned down a purchase from Cotrisal or Cotrijal and did not provide further evidence of its efforts to remove grain from indigenous lands from its supply chain.'A NEFARIOUS PRACTICE'Reuters reviewed court records including a November 2018 Cotrisal invoice for herbicide purchases against future delivery of grains issued to a farmer being sued by federal prosecutors for leasing land to plant soy in Serrinha.Court rulings in 2017 and 2018 ordered the seizure of tons of soy grown on Indigenous lands from silos operated by Cotrisal Cotrijal and other cooperatives.Cotrisal and Cotrijal did not respond to requests for comment on the seizures.In a July 2022 decision ordering measures to stop the practice Federal Judge Diogo Edele Pimentel said private leasing of lands in the Nonoai territory was a major source of division."It is a nefarious practice of private appropriation of a public good completely disfiguring its collective nature and deepening inequality in these communities," he wrote.Nascimento as well as his son and a former FUNAI official were fined a total of around 4.5 million reais (nearly $800,000) for embezzling profits from the illegal leases according to a July 2019 ruling seen by Reuters.Nascimento said an appeal is pending and that "all is back to normal," with non-Indigenous farmers delivering their harvests to the same coops including Cotrisal."The soy is sold on the local market There are farm cooperatives all around the Indigenous territories and other large cooperatives which buy any quantity of soy everything," he said.Reuters could not independently verify whether the lawsuit remains active.In 2021 11 members of the Serrinha community filed a civil lawsuit in the federal court of Carazinho accusing their chief Claudino of controlling the territory's soy trade to enrich his family.The 2021 lawsuit reviewed by Reuters said Claudino has crushed dissent with "violence oppression and human rights violations."In a telephone interview Claudino said his opponents spread lies about his leadership and that most of the community supports him The lawsuit is ongoing.Claudino remains under investigation - but has not been charged - in connection with a double homicide in Serrinha in 2021 which police and local community members link to land and power disputes fueled by the soy trade He denies involvement in the killings.At least 30 families who objected publicly to Claudino's involvement in the soy trade have left the reservation since October 2021 Several had their homes looted and ransacked according to three of the victims and a 2022 report by the federal human rights commission which connected the violence to the land leases.Claudino said only a dozen families left the reservation in recent years some of whom have returned."Some are back already But I'm not going to let people come here and make trouble for me again," he said.Reporting by Ana Mano in Passo Fundo and Sao Paulo; Editing by Brad Haynes and Suzanne Goldenberg Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab , opens new tab Browse an unrivalled portfolio of real-time and historical market data and insights from worldwide sources and experts. , opens new 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All rights reserved Get Recruited Faster with a Player Profile on SoccerWire.com Under-17 Men’s National Team fell to the Netherlands in its final Group D match of the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup on Saturday night at Estádio da Serrinha the USA finished fourth in the group and will not advance to the knockout stage of the tournament The match was evenly played for large portions of the first half white and blue in the second after going down a goal just before the break Netherlands forward Santje Hanson had a hand in three goals – scoring the first two and assisting on Mohamed Taabouni’s tally before Jayden Braaf closed out the scoring late The USA twice were inches from taking the lead within the first ten minutes of the game right back Joe Scally pushed down the line and sent a driven cross into the box Gio Reyna made an aggressive run towards the ball and sent a glancing flicked header to the back post that went inches wide of goal the Netherlands defense headed away a USA corner that fell to the feet of Adam Saldana just outside the box Saldana hit a low shot through the defense that also went just wide of goal held strong and started to create their own chances The breakthrough came just before the half when Hansen danced around at the top of the box before cutting to his left and tucking a shot just past the outstretched diving attempt by U.S goalkeeper Chituru Odunze and into the near post The USA made two changes to start the second half and were more aggressive offensively right off the whistle it was Jansen who opened the second-half scoring with a first-time shot from inside the box taking a ball to the end line before finding Taabouni Hansen again went at the USA defense and drew a penalty kick after being clipped by Bryang Kayo Kenneth Taylor stepped up to shoot but was denied by a diving save from Odunze The Netherlands finished the scoring in the dying minutes with Jayden Braaf netting one from close range Hansen took an innocent ball on the top of the right side of the box and cut to his left past two U.S defenders before shooting low to the near post Goalkeeper Chituru Odunze dove to his left and got a slight touch but it wasn’t enough to prevent the opening goal A Dutch player advanced the ball to the USA end line on the left side before sending a cross through the defense back to the penalty mark where Hansen hit a one-time shot past Odunze Hansen took the ball towards the right U.S post before touching a short pass back to the corner of the six-yard box where Mohamed Taabouni beat a USA defender to put it away Bannis entered the USA box right of the arc and after drawing a defender sent a square pass to the center where an unmarked Braaf took one touch to his right before shooting past Odunze 11th minute: A Dutch forward did well to create separation from the U.S defense at the top of the left side of the box before hitting a low hard shot that forced Odunze to dive to his left for the save NED – Sontje Hansen (Naci Unuvar)                   42nd minute NED – Sontje Hansen (Anass Salah Eddine)         51 NED – Mohamed Taabouni (Sontje Hansen)       70 NED – Jayden Braff (Naoufal Bannis)                  86 USA – Joe Scally                        90 The USA fell 4-1 to Senegal at the FIFA U-17 World Cup Tab Ramos is stepping down from his positions at U.S Join the SoccerWire College Soccer Recruiting Search Engine and learn how to be seen OVER 1 MILLION TIMES PER YEAR This site uses cookies to give you the best possible experience but do not collect personal information By continuing to use the site you agree that we can save cookies on your device Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information 2022 at 8:29 AM EDTBookmarkSaveLock This article is for subscribers only.The US embassy in Brasilia described Brazil’s elections as a “model for the world,” one day after President Jair Bolsonaro told foreign ambassadors that the country’s electronic voting system is subject to fraud Echoing comments made by President Joe Biden during a bilateral meeting with Bolsonaro last month the embassy said in a statement late Tuesday that the US “trusts in the strength” of Brazil’s democratic institutions The recent release of videos showing women subjected to a degrading act of violence with their hair forcibly shaved in the Serrinha community in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone has sparked a necessary debate about the power dynamics perpetuating gender oppression in the favelas Similar practices have occurred in other historical contexts when women who had relationships with German soldiers were publicly humiliated with the same type of punishment.[1] These practices reflect the intersection of social control exercised by Illegal Armed Groups (IAGs)[2] and the structural machismo that dominates urban violence they expose power dynamics that normalize oppression against women in these territories Criminal Governance and Gender-Based Violence Criminal governance practices are structured to maintain territorial control and discipline bodies and behaviors as discussed by Júlia Quirino in her dissertation “Crime Panopticon,”[3] draws on Michel Foucault’s reflections on biopolitics describing how power regulates the lives and behaviors of individuals In territories controlled by drug trafficking blending elements of sovereign and disciplinary control It employs tactics designed to maintain internal order often rooted in patriarchal norms that perpetuate the marginalization of women The case in question involves the so-called ‘trafficking tribunal’ in which gang leaders judge and punish those who violate their rules are frequent targets of punishments exploiting their physical and social vulnerabilities This dynamic reflects a patriarchy that limits women’s choices and reinforces their subjugation The act of forcibly shaving a woman’s hair symbolizes not only submission but also an attempt to publicly dehumanize them as a tool of oppression reinforcing the hegemonic masculinity that dominates these spaces Shaving a woman’s head as punishment for alleged betrayal or gossip is an extreme manifestation of machismo and misogyny This form of gender-based violence reflects not only the internal dynamics of IAGs but also broader structural issues Practices like these demonstrate how women are often treated as the “property” of men subject to imposed norms that limit their autonomy and freedom IAGs regulate not only the economic activities and flow of goods within their territories but also the individual choices of residents Women in Drug Trafficking: The “Pink Belt” women in communities controlled by Illegal Armed Groups (IAGs) have been relegated to passive or supportive roles This dynamic reflects not only gender oppression but also the hierarchical structures imposed by these groups which employ disciplinary practices to legitimize their authority within the community there has been a rise in female participation in leadership roles although still limited compared to male representation.[5] Despite this increase women’s involvement in leadership positions in trafficking remains heavily shaped by gender inequality Data from the National Secretariat of Penal Policies (2022) reveal that 54% of incarcerated women in Brazil were arrested for drug-related offenses compared to 27.65% of men.[6] These figures highlight the disproportionate impact of criminalization on women often involved in lower-profile activities within criminal organizations The expression “Pink Belt” (“Faixa Rosa”) refers to women directly involved in drug trafficking The term alludes to the sling used to hold weapons is used to describe men involved in drug trafficking who carry rifles while “black” evokes associations with skill and danger Just as a black belt in martial arts symbolizes mastery the term conveys an image of armed men as highly skilled and dangerous combatants within criminal organizations “calicas” (“calicos”) represent a different group: women not directly involved in trafficking but connected to the local culture They attend funk parties and maintain relationships with members of armed groups (IAG) known as “Hello Kitty,” is a prominent example of female leadership in drug trafficking.[7] Described as “beloved,” “vain,” yet also “courageous” and “violent,” she challenged stereotypes associating women in crime with masculinization The Pink Belt often maintain an appearance considered “feminine,” personalizing weapons with vibrant colors and shiny adornments while adopting active roles in a male-dominated and conflict-ridden environment Another striking case is that of Gabrielly Pantoja Machado known as “Faixa Rosa.” Killed in 2023 during a police operation she served as a bodyguard for Leonardo Costa Araújo known as “Pará,” an uncommon role for women in such a high-risk environment reaffirming her influence within the Comando Vermelho (Red Command) and breaking stereotypes associated with passive female roles These cases highlight the complex gender dynamics within Illegal Armed Groups (IAGs) While they challenge the traditionally submissive roles of women in these contexts these figures also reveal how gender inequality persists even when women occupy leadership positions the media visibility of these women raises questions about how they are represented either perpetuating or challenging narratives that link gender The Responsibility of the State and Society Although these practices are carried out by IAGs The absence of effective public policies to ensure women’s safety and rights creates a vacuum filled by groups like the Red Command the stigmatization of women in these communities as “accomplices” or “property” of traffickers reinforces narratives of blame that hinder social mobilization in defense of their rights Society must break away from this reductionist perspective and recognize that women are often victims of multiple forms of systemic violence Overcoming this cycle of violence requires a collective effort that goes beyond punishing those responsible It is essential to implement policies promoting gender education and social inclusion for women in vulnerable territories Only by addressing the structural roots of this violence can we construct a scenario where such practices no longer find a place to exist The case of women with shaved heads serves as a stark reminder of the urgency to rethink power dynamics perpetuating gender inequality Let this tragic episode act as a catalyst for a deeper debate about women’s rights across all spheres of society Vigiar e Punir: história da violência nas prisões “Police investigate video of women whose hair was forcibly shaved in a Rio community.” G1 (Globo). 7 January 2025, https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2025/01/07/policia-investiga-video-de-mulheres-que-tiveram-cabelos-raspados-a-forca-em-comunidade-do-rio.ghtml “Police investigate video of women whose hair was forcibly shaved in a Rio community.” G1 (Globo).  7 January 2025, https://g1.globo.com/rj/rio-de-janeiro/noticia/2025/01/07/policia-investiga-video-de-mulheres-que-tiveram-cabelos-raspados-a-forca-em-comunidade-do-rio.ghtml “Crime Panopticon: the criminal governance of the Red Command in Rio de Janeiro.” Unpublished dissertation La France “virile”: des femmes tondues à La Libération Alba Zaluar, “Mulher de Bandido: crônica de uma cidade menos musical [Bandit’s Woman: chronicle of a less musical city].” Feminist Studies, Vol.1, no. 1, pp. 135–142, 1993. Available at: http://educa.fcc.org.br/pdf/ref/v01n01/v01n01a08.pdf N.B. An earlier version of this research note appeared on the author’s blog, Júlia Quiino tagged under Governança Criminal on 11 January 2025. See: https://juliaquirino.com.br/tribunal-do-trafico-violencia-de-genero-como-ferramenta-de-poder-nas-favelas/ “Mulher de Bandido: crônica de uma cidade menos musical [Bandit’s Woman: chronicle of a less musical city].” Feminist Studies [7] Rayane Nazareth Cardozo da Silveira was a Brazilian gospel singer with links to the Comando Vermelho and evangelical Christianity She was killed in a police action on 16 June 2021 in São Gonçalo Unlock exclusive members-only ad-free content SIGN ME UP ￫ Court documents show that the suit, filed on 1 June by the labour prosecutor’s office, alleges that JBS discriminated against these workers as the COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly through Brazil The announcement caused JBS shares to fall 1.37 percent in late-afternoon trading "[The workers] were dismissed in a critical period when the return to the labour market is unlikely until the pandemic is controlled," Labour Prosecutor Edson Rodrigues Junior said The goal of the prosecutor's office is to force JBS to re-hire the indigenous workers The prosecutor is also seeking at least 10 million reais ($1.9 million) in fines and damages The dismissed employees of the Kaingang tribe commuted from the Serrinha indigenous land where there were at least two confirmed cases of COVID-19 JBS confirmed dismissing 40 indigenous workers from its Seara chicken-slaughtering plant but said the decision came after the company discontinued a bus service that brought the workers to the plant every day JBS gave no reason for discontinuing the bus service and denied any discrimination a lawyer representing the dismissed workers told Reuters by telephone the two people sick with COVID-19 in the Serrinha indigenous land did not work for JBS The lawyer said the dismissed JBS workers earned a net 1,200 reais ($230.10) per month and were "surprised" when they learned they had been fired At least one fired indigenous worker was a pregnant woman adding all women employees in such a condition were placed on leave JBS noted the dismissed workers were paid in full what they were entitled to and added that the plant in the town of Seara employs 3,700 people including 200 from indigenous communities in surrounding areas The indigenous workers at the plant were preemptively placed on leave as required by law to protect them amid the pandemic The company said the workers fired on 6 May travelled 300 kilometers every day to get to the plant on transportation arranged by the company Read more about this story on Reuters Global Ag Media provides a knowledge sharing platform offering premium news analysis and information resources for the global agriculture industry Sign up to our regular newsletter and access news from across the Global AG Media network School cafeterias in Brazil are transitioning to vegan menus, the Humane Society International (HSI) has announced The transition will be seen in four cities and will be completed by 2019 The schools are participating in a new project, “Escola Sustentável”, launched in partnership with HSI is taking place in the country due to a growing awareness of the environmental impact of meat production as well as the negative effect it can have on human health and Biritinga in Bahia are the four northeastern cities making history with the new programme HSI has been working closely with the participating schools running culinary training classes for cafeteria staff to help with the transition and eggs will be cut from menus by a quarter each semester until the ingredients in every dish served are locally sourced from nearby farms “Providing our school districts with plant-based meals will help save environmental and public financial resources and build a fair world for the animals,” Leticia Baird Brazilian public prosecutor for the environment in the state of Bahia added: “We applaud the cities of Serrinha and Biritinga for becoming the world’s first school districts to commit to going 100 percent plant-based It’s an honor to have worked with city authorities nutritionists and school cooks on the adoption and implementation of this initiative and we’re excited to continue working closely with them to ensure the success of this program.” This is not the first time cities in the country have placed plant-based meal plans in school cafeterias. Last summer, Várzea Grande, Cuiabá, and Sao Gonςalo introduced a new conscious eating program for children The cities schools pledged to go meat and dairy-free for one day out of each week resulting in 5 million more vegan meals to be served each year in the nation Image Credit: Humane Society International Sign up for updates and membership opportunities Try finding what you're looking for in our search box ...or hit the homepage for the latest news updates Tell us which broken link brought you here if you really think the page you were looking for should be here © 2025 SurferToday.com | All Rights Reserved Disease identified in the State of Rio Grande do Norte deforms hands and feet paulo otto and silvana santosHand with six fingers: some of the defects caused by the syndromepaulo otto and silvana santos the researcher identified another genetic disease not described in medical literature identified in six members of a family; the syndrome’s main characteristic is congenital malformation the long bone located on the side of the leg who grows to a maximum height of 1.50 meters the patient may have missing fingers or additional fingers and the nails have tiny defects A description of the syndrome was published in the December 15 issue of the American Journal of Medical Genetics Other degenerative diseases cause some of the characteristics provoked by the Riacho de Santana syndrome the clinical condition identified in the second town which also has a population of 4.300 inhabitants The technical name of this disease is agenesis/hypoplasia of the fibula associated with oligodactylous syndrome and other defects “This disease differs from other diseases because of tiny details,” says physician and geneticist Paulo Otto who provided the clinical description of the syndrome and co-authored the referred article “But we immediately suspected that this was something new.” The syndrome’s effects do not alter the afflicted person’s cognitive ability “The patients are normal in this respect,” says Silvana currently at the State University of Paraíba/UEPB the patients lead relatively normal lives and adapt to their limitations Although the tradition of marrying blood relatives is still maintained in Riacho de Santana the form of the syndrome’s hereditary transmission is unknown Neither do researchers know whether the syndrome is associated with such marriages The malformations are caused by a simple genetic defect which spread to the members of the affected family (four siblings and a cousin the most likely hypothesis is that this a dominant autosomic syndrome then any child who inherits one copy of the mutated gene will manifest the syndrome because otherwise it would have been found elsewhere,” says Silvana With funding from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico/CNPq [national scientific and technological development council] and the help of colleagues from other universities the researcher traveled to cities in the Northeast of Brazil with a significant population of physically disabled people and a high number of blood marriages in order to study the incidence of genetic problems Scientific Article SANTOS, S. C. et al. A previously undescribed syndrome combining fibular agenesis/hypoplasia, oligodactylous clubfeet, anonychia/ungual hypoplasia and other defects. American Journal of Medical Genetics © Revista Pesquisa FAPESP - All rights reserved Who would have thought that guitar chords, a soccer match or a popular song could become weapons of resistance? That's what Democracia! is all about, a free event open to all, organized on April 5 and 6, 2025 at the Théâtre de la Concorde, in partnership with SACEM and as part of the Saison France-Brésil 2025 this weekend highlights the crucial role of Brazilian popular music in the fight against dictatorship and in Brazil's democratic history committed event at the crossroads of politics the event opens with a round-table discussion entitled " Music and Democracy " renowned musician and Music Director of Marisa Monte an emblematic artist on the Brazilian scene they will discuss the role of popular music in Brazil's political history from the fight against military censorship to the voices of committed artists Are you passionate about the links between music and society In this discussion you'll find valuable insights into music as a space of freedom in the face of oppression and the power of artistic expression in the face of authoritarian regimes The evening continues with a sung lecture, an immersive and sensitive format hosted by Elsa Boublil, director of Théâtre de la Concorde, and Jérôme Pigeon, producer of Seu Jorge 's album Cru (Babelville Prod) they will revisit the great anthems of Brazilian resistance tracing through words and sounds the struggles of a generation in the face of the dictatorship of the 70s A conference that doesn't just tell the story: it makes you feel and transports you into the effervescent atmosphere of insurgent Brazil is as much for those curious about contemporary history as it is for music lovers or friends eager to share a moment of reflection and emotion ideal for those who like to get off the beaten track and explore the crossroads between culture and commitment Have you ever felt the political power of a song understand and sing about democracy the Brazilian way over a committed weekend in the heart of Paris This page may contain AI-assisted elements, more information here Refer your establishment, click herePromote your event, click here