17th January 2014 Brasilia, Brazil
In December 2013, I was fortunate enough to be invited to Rio de Janeiro and Brasilia by the British Consulate in Rio and the British Embassy in Brasilia. As an accessible travel writer and a wheelchair user myself, I was particularly interested in exploring accessibility in Rio, the city that is to host the Olympic […]
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7th January 2014 Brasilia, Brazil
Located in the state of Bahia, Salvador is a Brazilian city whose population is mostly composed of afro-descendants. These afro-descendant women have always had a distinct position either as head of the household or working informally. It is reasonable to say that they were the first individual entrepreneurs in Brazil. For a long time, […]
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10th December 2013 Brasilia, Brazil
The following is a guest blog by Louise de Sousa, Head of the Foreign Office’s Human Rights and Democracy Department. I’m looking forward to arriving in Brazil tomorrow, the day after International Human Rights Day, for my first visit to discuss human rights issues since I left the Embassy after three happy years in 1997. […]
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25th November 2013 Brasilia, Brazil
Maria da Penha was shot in the back while she slept. Not by a stranger, but by her husband. She survived, but the attack left her paraplegic and consigned to a wheelchair. The second attack happened on her return from hospital, when her husband tried to electrocute her in the shower. She survived that too. […]
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