Books on Brazil

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Human Rights in Brazil - 2000
(Direitos Humanos no Brasil - 2000)

Edited and Translated by James Cavallaro and Maria Luisa Mendonga

This new report addresses human rights issues in a broad sense, considering civil and political, as well as economic, social, and cultural rights. (A joint bilingual publication of Global Exchange and Justicia Global, 2001) (93 pages in English, 93 pages in Portuguese, $10.00).

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Benedita da Silva: An Afro-Brazilian
Woman's Story of Politics & Love

as told to Medea Benjamin and Maisa Mendonça

This book offers lessons for organizing, whether one works in a neighborhood or a church, with women's groups, or in a city or county government. (207 pp., $15.95)

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Fighting for the Soul of Brazil

edited by Kevin Danaher & Michael Shellenberger

A timely collection of 40 essays on South America's largest country. Eyewitness reports, interviews, political and economic analyses make clear how Brazil holds lessons for the world in the new century. (272 pp., $15.95)

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