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By Fabiana Frayssinet RIO DE JANEIRO, Jul 4 (IPS) - It’s another day marked by gunfire in the Morro da Providencia "favela", one of the most dangerous slums in this Brazilian city, and the only area where people can move around in relative safety is in the lower part of the neighbourhood, towards the foot of the hill. Alessandra da Cunha is one of the 11,000 women "peace workers" recruited by the Ministry of Justice’s National Public Security and Citizenship Programme (PRONASCI) to try to create a peaceful haven in the favelas, as the shantytowns on the outskirts of Brazil’s cities are known. The programme - involving 3.35 billion dollars in spending through 2012 - was launched by the leftist government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in August 2007 with the aim of integrating law enforcement, public safety and social... [read full story]
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