Later in the 1990s, attention shifted to collective human rights in general, and to economic and social rights, affected by the implementation of structural adjustment policies, in particular. Small Pentecostal church 60 km from Rio de Janeiro. A striking development in Latin America has been the rapid growth of Evangelical and Pentecostal churches. Today these churches are demonstrating a desire to influence social, political and economic life, and some have even formed their own political parties. EPOS is a regional network of churches and church-related organizations based in Peru.
National coordinators meet annually to evaluate and plan the network's activities.
The Centre for the Defence of Children's and Adolescents' Rights works in Pernambuco, Brazil, with young women, adolescents, street children and child workers, prostitutes, teenage mothers and delinquents. One of its aims is to provide a useful model for other Brazilian institutions mandated to work with girls and young women. Regional Relations' Latin America Desk recognizes the value of such pilot programmes and has offered its support to the Centre.