Meeting of Security and Military Experts on the Stabilization of Somalia 15 - 16 December 2004 Nairobi, Kenya ; Réunion de la sécurité et experts militaires sur la stabilisation de la Somalie 15 - 16 Décembre 2004 Nairobi, Kenya ; اجتماع الخبراء العسكريين والأمن في تحقيق الاستقرار في الصومال 15-16 ديسمبر نيروبي لعام 2004، وكينيا ; Reunião de Segurança e peritos militares a estabilização da Somália 15-16 dezembro 2004 Nairóbi, no Quênia
The reform of the Social Security system is perhaps the most important item of the agenda of Constitutional reforms in Brazil. Without it, the increase in the (Number of retired people/Number of contributors) ratio will create dramatic fiscal problems in the long term. This article analyzes the evolution of the Social Security expenditures in Brazil during the last 15 years. The focus of the paper is on the composition of expenditures and the trajectory of its real value, with special emphasis on the impact of inflation. After the Real Plan, the possibility that the prices might accomodate the structural pressures for increasing expenditures has practically disappeared. As a consequence, the necessity to reform the retirement system has become more evident. The paper defines a taxonomy of the different proposals of reform, comments on the most relevant issues being discussed within the debate about the Social Security and includes a proposal of reform. This proposal makes only a few changes in legislation and preserves the legal existence of the job time retirement. Nevertheless, it would have a considerable economic impact compared with the preservation of the status quo and would be a more ambitious and more feasible alternative than the one currently being discussed by Congress.
Peace and Security Council Fifth Session 13 April 2004 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ; Conseil De Paix Et De Securite Cinquieme Session 13 Avril 2004 Addis Abeba, Ethiopie ; السلام والأمن الدورة الخامسة المجلس 13 أبريل 2004 أديس أبابا، إثيوبيا ; Paz e do Conselho de Segurança Quinta Sessão 13 abr 2004 Addis Abeba, Etiópia
Peace and Security Council 12TH Session 4 July 2004 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ; Paix et de sécurité 12ème session 4 Juillet 2004 Addis-Abeba, Ethiopie ; السلام والأمن التابع الدورة 12TH 4 يوليو 2004 أديس أبابا، إثيوبيا ; Paz e Segurança sessão do Conselho 12TH 04 de julho de 2004 Adis Abeba, Etiópia
Peace and Security Council Fourth Session 6 April 2004 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia ; Conseil De Paix Et De Securite Quatrième session 6 avril 2004 Addis Abéba (Ethiopie) ; السلام والأمن التابع الدورة الرابعة 6 أبريل 2004 أديس أبابا، إثيوبيا ; Paz e Segurança sessão do Conselho Quarta 6 de abril de 2004 Adis Abeba, Etiópia
Traditional Storage in Guinea Bissau is closely linked to food security of its rural population. Storage occurs nearly exclusively on the compound or family level and is subject to complex relationships between family members. Crop protection and storage are highly ritualised domains as they are closely linked to the survival of the families. Any interventions intended to improve or change storage systems, in order to reduce post-harvest losses, which for many crops are very high, therefore have to deal with the internal power structures as well as with the spiritual dimension associated with this basic human activity. A profound knowledge of current practices is therefore of the essence. Traditional storage systems show a clearly ethnic configuration. This report presents the first five results of a study on 11 ethnic storage systems, namely: Mandinga, Beafada, Nalú, Fula de Quebo and Balanta. It details for each crop cultivated the seeds, the harvest methods, the storage system, including receptacles, containers and magazines, (with drawings) and the major threats facing different crops in each stage.
This article looks at the notion of 'risk' in the construction of the body as a spectacle. Its specific focus is on the body of the aerial acrobat and the production of an aesthetic of risk in the circus. The aim of the article is to understand the ways in which the illusion of risk is created in the circus, and how this fits into the framework of adventure-risk in society at large. In understanding how risk is created, we shall see that every risk has its counterpart in strategies of safety. We shall see that modernity's quest for thrills is linked to its concern for means of ensuring safety, though technologies of prevention, insurance cover, and rigorous training programs to ensure the technically perfect execution of skills. It is this concern for security which, paradoxically, makes an aesthetics of risk meaningful. Our research examines the point at which the aesthetics of risk is embodied in the body of the acrobat. We use a variety of research methods, including observation, field diaries, photography, image-searches, interviews and documents in the public domain. The questions we address are the following: what are the bodily risks of acrobatic shows? How are such risks used? How is it that sensitivity to bodily practices has changed so much? Our analytic path starts by contextualizing the notion of risk, then proceeds to characterize the spectacle of the circus, and continues through an account of the technical aspects of acrobatic skill. We arrive ultimately at our end-point: the 'aerial acrobat', which, in embodying the illusion of risk and the transcendence of human limits, stands as an example of contemporary subjectivity.
O artigo problematiza criticamente o debate sobre o conceito de "terceiro setor", apartir não do que é chamado "terceiro setor", mas das reformas mais gerais operadassob a hegemonia do grande capital, particularmente o financeiro. Procura-secaracterizar a origem setorializadora desse termo que, de um lado, impede uma visãode totalidade e, portanto, deita por terra a perspectiva de transformação social; e, deoutro, determina sua clara funcionalidade ao projeto hegemônico de reestruturação docapital que, orientado nos postulados neoliberais, mistifica a sociedade civil, desarticulae apazigua as lutas sociais, além de propiciar maior aceitação à reforma do Estado,particularmente no que refere à Seguridade Social e à responsabilidade estatal naresposta à "questão social" como direito de cidadania. ; This article critically problematizes the debate on the concept of the "thirdsector," departing not from the fact that it is called the "third sector," butfrom the more general reforms undertaken under the hegemony of big capital,particularly financial capital. It tries to characterize the sectoralized origin ofthat term, which, on the one hand, impedes a vision of the totality and, as aresult, undercuts a socially transformative perspective and, on the other hand,determines its clear functionality for the hegemonic project of capitalrestructuring. This project, oriented by neoliberal postulates, mystifies civilsociety and disarticulates and pacifies social struggles, at the same time that itpromotes a greater acceptance of state reform, particularly with regard tosocial security and the state's responsibility to treat the "social question" as aright of citizenship.
