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Brazilian Organizations
Empresa Forum EMPRESA's mission is to strengthen and help establish national and regional business organizations committed to social responsibility. We accomplish our mission by working with three principal programs:
The Brazilian Landless Workers Movement is the largest social movement in Latin America and one of the most successful grassroots movements in the world. Hundreds of thousands of landless peasants have taken onto themselves the task of carrying out a long-overdue land reform in a country mired by an overly skewed land distribution pattern. Less than 3% of the population owns two-thirds of Brazil's arable land. While 60% of Brazil's farmland lies idle, 25 million peasants struggle to survive by working in temporary agricultural jobs. The Landless Workers' Movement (MST) is a response to these inequalities. In 1985, with the support of the Catholic Church, hundreds of landless rural Brazilians took over an unused plantation in the south of the country and successfully established a cooperative there. They gained title to the land in 1987. Today more than 250,000 families have won land titles to over 15 million acres after MST land takeovers. The success of the MST lies in its ability to organize. Its members have not only managed to secure land, thereby guaranteeing food security for their families, but have come up with an alternative socio-economic development model that puts people before profits. This is transforming the face of Brazil's countryside and Brazilian politics at large.
WEDO WEDO is an international advocacy network that seeks to increase the power of women worldwide as policymakers in governance and in policymaking institutions, forums and processes, at all levels, to achieve economic and social justice, a peaceful and healthy planet and human rights for all. WEDO's program areas are Gender and Governance, Sustainable Development, and Economic Justice. By emphasizing the linkages between these sectors and by highlighting the critical role of women at the social, economic and political levels, across all regions of the world, WEDO seeks to:
World Social Forum The mission is to go farther than demonstrations and mass protests, looking for new and accurate answers to the definition of building of "Another World", in which the economy would be in the service of the human being and not the opposite. |
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