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For more than 50 years, North Korea has been operating prison camps that are actually forced labor concentration camps. Government and political oppositionists are incarcerated and forced to do slave labor in these camps which hold an estimated 200,000 prisoners. Forced labor has been regarded as ‘an opportunity for redemption.’ North Korea’s [...]

The international economic crisis could harm relations between Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and the country’s social movements that expect him to carry out land reform. Organizations like the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) and the Pastoral Land Commission (CPT), linked to the Catholic Church, allege that much of the resources [...]