News stories by Clarinha Glock

CANOAS, Brazil, Jan 24 (IPS) - The challenges of the digital age call for schools to develop an alternative model of education, with teachers who incorporate new technology and employ a more critical pedagogy, participants said at the Fórum Mundial de Educaçao (World Education Forum) in this southern Brazilian city.

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Jun 01 (IPS) - Healthcare for Brazil's indigenous minority is in poor health, according to U.N. experts, missionaries, social workers and native people themselves.

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, May 21 (IPS) - Indigenous communities in remote areas of Brazil have begun to recognise that they have the right to not be hungry, and are learning that food security means much more than simply having food on the table.

BRASILIA, Apr 30 (IPS) - A new social contract is needed in education, that would fully incorporate informatics and the 21st century conception of human rights, French professor Divina Frau-Meigs says in this interview with IPS.

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Mar 01 (IPS) - March will be a key month for defining the future of the Inter-American human rights system, which has come under fire from a number of countries in the region.

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, Feb 05 (IPS) - The tragedy at the Kiss nightclub cast a dark shadow on proceedings at the Thematic Social Forum held in Porto Alegre, the southern Brazilian city renowned for hosting the first World Social Forum in 2001.

PORTO ALEGRE, Jan 31 (IPS) - At 8 a.m. on Oct. 25, 1975, Brazilian journalist Vladimir Herzog voluntarily reported to the São Paulo headquarters of the government's intelligence agency and was never seen alive again.

In this southern Brazilian city that has an international reputation as a pioneer in environmental policies and citizen participation, the city government has set an eviction date for the small protest movement that is occupying the central square.

Traditional social movements of homeless and landless people have for years been organising occupations as a pressure tactic. Now 'occupying' is a key element for fighting the capitalist system in its hour of crisis, and also in the realm of virtual reality.