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Brazil: marching against corruption

20 August 2014 in Access to information, Accountability, Americas, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Education, Health, Human rights, Impunity, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Water, Young people

On 24 July the town hall in Queimada Nova was packed. The citizens of this small town – which has about 8,000 residents and is situated 520km from Teresina, the state capital of Piauí – had gathered to listen to a group of volunteer anti-corruption activists who had just finished analysing the town’s accounts. This was […]

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Marching against Corruption in Brazil: Day One

16 July 2013 in Americas, Anti-corruption movement, Civil society, Cost of Corruption, Human rights, People power, Politics and government, Poverty and development, Water

  This post is authored by Lirian Pádua, a Journalism graduate who works as a reporter, editor, and photographer and is volunteering for the NGO Batra (Bauru Transparente), a member of Amarribo Brasil’s network.   About 25 volunteers from a number of different organisations gathered today in Guaribas, a town of 4,800 in the arid bushland in the […]

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