Violent crimes against children highest ever From sexual abuse to grooming, through pornography, rape and sharing of intimate images and harassment: reported sex crimes against children increased almost 50% in a period of three years (2022 – 2024), to a total of more than 5000 crimes, according to the Portuguese Victim Support Association (APAV). Of […]
‘Women who abort in Portugal can still be criminalized for it’ In Portugal, the voluntary interruption of pregnancy (IVG) carried out by a doctor, in an officially recognized health establishment and with the consent of the pregnant woman, is since 2007 not punishable in the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. Between 2007 – after the […]
The right to die with dignity Portugal’s earlier approved euthanasia law – published on the 25th of May, 2023 – is going nowhere. In fact, it is going ‘’back deep into the drawer’, writes Correio de Manhã, the country’s biggest and most popular newspaper. According to the approved law, people aged over 18 should be […]
Language is the door to culture’ The National Education Federation (FNE) is warning of a decline in the Portuguese language education abroad. We are therefore going to discuss Portuguese mini-expressions with only one consonant and the letter ‘a‘.We’ll travel in alphabetical order; courtesy of Marco Neves. Bá Just like that doesn’t exist in the Portuguese […]
Centre-right wins election as far-right makes record gains Portugal’s centre-right Democratic Alliance (AD) has won the country’s third parliamentary election in three years as the underperforming socialists were left for second place, together with the far-right party Chega (meaning ‘Enough’). Luís Montenegro, the leader of the AD – that has governed the country since its […]
‘Another language is another view of life’ (Frederico Fellini) More than 7000 languages are spoken today. Calculating the part that a language plays in the world is not an easy task. One of the possible ways to calculate the number of speakers is to consider how many people use a language as their mother tongue. […]
From symbol of modern technology during Salazar to symbol of revolution Fifty-one years on, revolutionary anthems will be sung again on the 25th of April when Portugal celebrates its Carnation Revolution, which in 1974 ended the Estado Novo (New State) of dictator António Oliveira Salazar, Europe’s longest-lasting dictatorship of more than forty years. After an […]
Bordalo II – Portuguese street artist famous for his large-scale animals made from urban trash (www.lusolobo.com/bordalo)
‘Doctors – like poets – need to be in touch with their feelings’ The poet João Luis Barreto Guimarães (1967) is a breast cancer surgeon, who uses poetry alongside medicine to help trainee doctors empathize with their patients. In 1989 he made his literary debut with the collection Há Violinos na Tribo (The Tribe has […]
The Algarve houses the largest colony of Audouin’s gulls in the world The Audouin’s gull is declining around the world but flourishing in the Algarve, establishing there the largest colony in the world. Year on year this threatened species has increased since settling in the Ria Formosa a decade ago. More than seven thousand nests […]