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Topic: Child labor in Brazil...
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It is really sad that something like this is allowed to happen.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298887,00.html
http://www.un.org/works/goingon/labor/goingon_labor.html
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that IS  really sad.
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The saddest part is that money is NOT the problem here, but its inequal distribution. Very few families own far more than 50% of all the country's riches, besides controlling the mass media and virtually all the major political parties. This way they can keep everything exactly as it has always been since the arrival of the first Portuguese in 1500. There's a saying here, "mude tudo para não mudar nada", which means "change everything (in appearence) in order not to change anything". That's what happened in our fake "Independence" from Portugal in 1822, and again in the fake "Proclamation of Republic" in 1889. It happened again with former president Cardoso and his so-called policy of "privatization" in 1998, when hundreds of the major State companies were basically transferred to the hands of political groups for almost nothing, and the money received disappeared in the payment of debt service charges to IMF. All these were perpetrated by the very same ruling elites in order to keep their centuries-old power, with a minimum participation of the people. What future can we expect from such a country?
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It's the same scenario here in the Philippines. Its the Pareto principle all over
again. The few elites control big business, own most of the land, and politics wherein they are able to protect their interests through legislation and connections to the elected officials.
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The more I research the worse it gets...
"Brazil is considered to have the worst child sex trafficking record after Thailand. According to the recently released Protection Project report, various official sources agree that from 250,000 to 500,000 child live as child prostitutes. Other sources in Brazil put the number at up to 2,000,000 children."
http://www.libertadlatina.org/LA_Brazils_Child_Prostitution_Crisis.htm
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""None" was registered in Queen Alice in Jan/12/2008 and posted your topic a day after. Achmed did the same thing. Am I the solely one that writes with my own name? Maybe I am a wrong."
What are you talking about? You make no sense.
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