brazil

Signing agreement witnessed by FAO Director-General

UN agency to boost Brazil's twin-track Zero Hunger Programme

8 December 2003
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today it had signed a $5.8 million agreement with the government of Brazil, strengthening its collaboration and support of the country's twin-track Zero Hunger Programme, which aims to address the root causes of poverty that result in hunger.

Killing of witnesses show death squad problem in Brazil - UN rights office

10 October 2003
The United Nations human rights office said today it had learned "with great consternation" of the shooting in Brazil of a second person who had spoken to a UN expert investigating extrajudicial killings in that country, which a spokesman said was indicative of the very problem the expert had been studying.