Weekly Report - 23 August 2007 (ISSN 1741-7422)

The government has finally launched its national public security and citizenship programme (Pronasci). The programme aims to tackle violence by combining public security policies with social programmes; initially in Brazilian urban sprawls suffering from the highest crime rates. However, so far there has been no talk of expanding the Pronasci to the Brazilian countryside, where violence is also a wide-spread phenomenon.