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National Congress of Brazil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Brazil's bicameral National Congress (Portuguese: Congresso Nacional) consists of a Senate (the upper house) and a Chamber of Deputies (the lower house). Both houses of Congress meet in a purpose-built legislative palace in the centre of Brasília. Since it is common for politicians to switch parties, the proportion of congressional seats held by particular parties changes regularly. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Federal_Senate_of_Brazil   (224 words)

CONK! Encyclopedia: Brazil Brazil is characterized by the extensive low-lying Amazon Rainforest in the north, and a more open terrain of hills and (low) mountains to the south, home to most of Brazil's population and its agricultural base. Brazil and its 26 states and Federal District are divided by IBGE into 5 distinctive regions: North, Northeast, Center-West, Southeast and South (Division by Regions). In 1808 Queen Maria I of Portugal and her son and regent, the future João VI of Portugal, fleeing from Napoleon, relocated to Brazil with the royal family, nobles and government. www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Brazil   (1754 words)

Huge Gay Pride parade held in Brazil - Wikinews The National Congress of Brazil has debated legalization for 10 years, and such civil marriages are currently only legal in Rio Grande do Sul. Protesters hope to collect a petition of 1.2 million signatures to present to the National Congress in November. Brazil is the largest Roman Catholic country on Earth, and the Roman Catholic Church has consistently opposed the legalization of same-sex marriage in the country. en.wikinews.org /wiki/Huge_Gay_Pride_parade_held_in_Brazil   (346 words)

Against Expulsion of PT Members of Congress The term “parliamentarian” is used here to mean “member of parliament”; that is, member of Brazil’s National Congress, which consists of two houses, the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. Brazil: In Defense of Democracy—Against Expulsions of Workers Party Members of Congress She is part of the National Leadership of the party and its National Executive Commission. www.laborstandard.org /Brazil/brazil_nov22_03.htm   (1364 words)

Human Rights Watch: Publications: Americas : Brazil Brazil's National Congress promulgated it on 5 August 1999 by Decree 3.128. Yet protecting Brazil's children and adolescents—and particularly the most common targets of violence: poor, black or dark-skinned adolescent boys—from violence cannot and should not wait for the solutions to other entrenched social problems, particularly when it is apparent that the police, either on- or off-duty, are responsible for a significant proportion of the killings. Brazil is a federation of states, much like the United States, and each state controls its own juvenile detention system. www.hrw.org /hrw/pubweb/Webcat-17.htm   (1809 words)

Brazil's IMF-sponsored economic disaster Brazil's National Congress was also blamed for asking deceptive questions and for not having granted in December a swift and 'unconditional rubber-stamp' to the IMF's lethal economic medicine. Imposed by Brazil's creditors, the IMF programme was to include: 'a large up-front fiscal adjustment of over 3% of GDP with reforms of social security, public administration, public expenditure management, tax policy and revenue sharing that confront head-on the structural weaknesses that lie at the root of the public sector's financial difficulties'. In contrast, in Brazil the IMF financial operation was negotiated 'before' as part of a new standing IMF-Group of Seven industrialised nations (G7) arrangement. www.twnside.org.sg /title/latin-cn.htm   (3435 words)

NDI - National Democratic Institute for International Affairs NDI began working in Brazil in 1986 when NDI and the State University of New York (SUNY)at Albany responded to requests from leaders of Brazil's National Congress to conduct a program on legislative oversight of the budget process. Despite the presence of approximately twenty political parties in the federal Congress, many are actually "movements" centered around a key figure, rather than political parties with a solid following from election to election. The 1986 Congress was charged with drafting a new constitution that was eventually adopted in late 1988. www.ndi.org /worldwide/lac/brazil/brazil_pf.asp   (433 words)

Brazil Introduction - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography, Climate, Natural Resources, Current Issues, International Agreements, Population, Social Statistics, Political System A national plebiscite was held on April 21, 1993, to decide the form of government (a republic or, oddly enough, a constitutional monarchy) and the system of government (presidential or parliamentary), and it overwhelmingly reaffirmed Brazil as a presidential republic. Brazil is becoming the largest market for money laundering in the world, according to the Federal Police (Polícia Federal) and Ministry of Justice. Although Brazil, with annual inflation of 7.2 percent in 1997, is clearly on a steadier course than it was in the first half of the 1990s, the country still has a long way to go in reversing the ever-widening socioeconomic inequities between rich and poor. www.workmall.com /wfb2001/brazil/brazil_history_introduction.html   (15446 words)

New Page 1 The Convention and the protocols have been submitted to the National Congress of Brazil for approval. Brazil welcomes the Secretary General’s report A/57/153, which highlights the progress made with regard to the promotion of the entry into force of the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime and its three protocols. One important result of this process is the creation of the National Anti-Drugs Bureau, which co-ordinates the activities of prevention and rehabilitation, whereas the agency responsible for repression is the police department. www.un.int /brazil/speech/02d-mlrv-57agnu-crime-3009.htm   (691 words)

the Globe - Summer '98 Page 5 elivering an impassioned speech about the racial discrimination and political disempowerment of the poor in Brazil, Senator Benedita da Silva, the first Afro-Brazilian woman to be elected to Brazil’s National Congress, received a warm, homecoming-like reception at Howard University on November 13, 1997. Hosted by the Bunche Center and the University of Maryland’s Committee for Africa and the Americas, da Silva talked about her fight to make a difference for "my people" in Brazil, where, she said, 70 percent of the 165 million people are of African descent and poverty prevails among them. Though well-known throughout Brazil, Da Silva stressed the fact that her interest in politics is "acting as a voice for the voiceless." www.founders.howard.edu /globe/5.htm   (250 words)

Feminist Daily News 8/11/2000: Women In Brazil Visible In Local Elections, But Absent In National Politics The number of female lawmakers in Brazil’s national Congress has dropped from 34 in the 1994 elections to 28 in 1998. Women’s rights advocates in Brazil are urging reform of quota laws on a national level. In three of Brazil’s state capitals women are running against women for the seat of mayor, a refreshing indicator that women’s participation in local politics is flourishing. www.feminist.org /news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=5055   (283 words)

Library of Congress and National Library of Brazil Launch Joint Web Site Dedicated to U.S.-Brazil Interactions Librarian of Congress James H. Billington and President of the National Library of Brazil Foundation Pedro Correa do Lago have launched a collaborative Web site that explores the historical similarities and contrasts, ethnic diversity and interactions between Brazil and the United States. The project grew out of a visit to Brazil in 1999 by Billington and subsequent discussions between the two national libraries about the numerous parallels in the histories of the two largest countries in the Americas. The Library of Congress, founded April 24, 1800, is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution. www.loc.gov /today/pr/2004/04-056.html   (594 words)

Read a Peace Report- Culture of Peace Advances in Brazil Three other cities are awaiting approval by the National Congress of Brazil: Curitiba, Ribeirão Pires and Cotia. Already the national health system of Brazil is using the culture of peace in its program called CONASEMS in over 5,000 municipalities to treat local and family violence as a public health problem. There is also a national program of disarmament run by the police for the turning in of guns which is part of these culture of peace initiatives. cpnn-usa.org /cgi-bin/read/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=229   (842 words)

SenadoraMarinaING.doc In 1992, Brazil hosted the UNCED and signed the Convention on Biological Diversity, which was ratified by the National Congress two years later (1994). Brazil's Ministry of Foreign Relations recently presented a document that seems to reflect much of this debate that the Brazilian Congress and society have been promoting in recent years. This will be another excellent chance to announce to Brazil and to the world proposals of interest to those who, despite the unsustainable development model currently reigning in much of the world, have known how to conserve and make sustainable use of the natural resources they received from the Creator. www.amazonlink.org /gd/diversity/SenadoraMarinaING.doc   (1871 words)

Brazil News 24/7 - Nothing But Brazil - Brazzil Magazine - Fresh news daily - English-language Magazine on Brazilian Culture - Brazil - Brasil - Brésil The Brazilian National Bishops Conference (CNBB) has decided to wage a campaign against Bill 1135/91, now before the Brazilian Congress, which proposes to legalize abortion. The decision by members of Brazil's Chamber of Deputies' Ethics Council to approve a report recommending that deputy Romeu Queiroz (from the PTB party, Minas Gerais state) be deprived of his parliamentary mandate is seen as a "trend" that is expected to be repeated in the analysis of other cases. Brazil's Program for the Eradication of Child Labor (Peti) will be incorporated into the Family Grant by the end of the year as announced by Patrus Ananias, the Brazilian Minister of Social Development. brazzilmag.com /index.php?...&task=view&id=1684&Itemid=49   (1780 words)

UNCCD Round Table - 1999 We are deeply alarmed by the impact of land degradation and desertification processes that are occurring, and accelerating, over much of the 30 percent of the Earth's surface, which is designated by the UN as dry or semi-arid. The Secretariats of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and the Inter-Parliamentary Union to take follow-up action on the present Round Table decisions and develop strategies in order to achieve universal awareness of the declarations and progress reports of the High-Level Forum of Members of Parliament. The Secretariats of the Inter-Parliamentary Union and of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification to continue their co-operation and to submit a proposal for the dissemination of information on progress in fighting desertification by the next session of the Conference of the Parties; www.ipu.org /splz-e/unccd99.htm   (1374 words)

A virtual travel to Brazil - Brasil - South America - Brazil visitors guide US Library of Congress / Country Studies / Brazil By far the largest and most populous country in South America, Brazil has overcome more than half a century of military intervention in the governance of the country to pursue industrial and agricultural growth and development of the interior. The President of the Federal Republic of Brazil - Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's Office. www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/brazil.htm   (890 words)

BBC NEWS Americas Protesters attack Brazil's Congress Earlier on Wednesday, the lower house of the Brazilian Congress gave its initial approval to the reform bill. The president, or Lula as he is known, came to power in January promising jobs and change for Brazil's millions of poor and the reform law is expected to put his on collision course with strong traditional allies of his Workers' Party. The vote in the lower house, after the ruling Workers' Party watered down some of its proposals for the debt-ridden system, is only the first step in at least another week of votes on individual amendments. news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/americas/3130561.stm   (410 words)

Attacks on Brazil's Enéas Carneiro Brazilian Congressman-elect Dr. Enéas Carneiro of the nationalist PRONA party, has been subjected to a string of spurious accusations over recent weeks, regarding alleged irregularities in the reporting of legal residences of candidates who ran for office on his PRONA party ticket. Enéas was elected to Brazil's national congress in the late October general elections, with the largest vote total, by far, ever received by any congressional candidate in the country's history. Enéas, as he is widely known throughout Brazil, is a personal friend of U.S. Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche, and had hosted LaRouche's June 2002 visit to Brazil, where LaRouche was made an Honorary Citizen of São Paulo by the City Council. www.larouchepub.com /pr_lar/2002/021203eneas.html   (447 words)

National Catholic Reporter: Gun sales curtailed - World - Brazilian government approves gun control statute - Brief Article SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Brazil's Congress has approved the Statute of Disarmament, a law that prohibits civilians from carrying firearms and severely curtails private gun sales. According to the civil society group, Sou da Paz, someone is murdered in Brazil every 13 minutes, and 90 percent of homicides are committed with firearms. The law is likely to be resisted by the arms industry in Brazil, which earned an estimated $142 million in profits in 2002. www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1141/is_13_40/ai_113302224   (304 words)

Center for Latin American Studies, UC Berkeley In 2002, she was elected Rio de Janeiro’s Representative to the Brazilian Congress in a landslide, garnering more votes in that election than any of her colleagues. In 2003, Justice Barbosa became the first Afro-Brazilian member of the Supreme Court of Brazil. After the judgment, she spent a year in the United States, returning to head the Brazilian branches of Transparency International and the Women’s Bank. socrates.berkeley.edu:7001 /Events/series/lawinlatinamerica   (465 words)

Parliamentarians for Global Action PGA convened the Ibero-American and Lusophone Parliamentary Conference on the International Criminal Court (ICC) in collaboration with the Federal Senate, the Chamber of Deputies, the Parliamentary Confederation of the Americas (COPA), and the Ministry of Human Rights of Brazil. Oliveira, (Brazil) Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies Nilmario Miranda, Brazil's Human Rights Minister and former PGA member, met with President Lula to discuss the Rome Statute implementation process. www.pgaction.org /prog_inte_upco.asp?ID=166   (258 words)

Labor Standard 6 for Web rom November 24 to 28, at the Venda Nova training institute in Belo Horizonte, in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, 927 delegates gathered for the Second National Congress of Brazil’s Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores, better known as the PT). Squeezed by lack of time, mainly because a whole series of parallel meetings prevented the Congress sessions from starting on time, the discussion of new statutes for the PT ended up being referred back to the next meeting of the National Directorate (DN), with two important caveats. Federal Deputy Milton Temer, arguing in favor of including the slogan, pointed out that all the PT’s state conventions — with the single exception of that in the state of Parana — had elected their delegates to the PT Congress on the basis of support for the slogan. www.laborstandard.org /Vol2No1/Brazil_PT_Conference.htm   (1169 words)

Alberto Santos-Dumont, Brazil According to the law no. 165 of December 5th, 1947, enacted by the National Congress of Brazil and sanctioned by His Excellency President Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Alberto Santos Dumont was permanently listed in the Brazilian Air Ministry Almanac with the rank of Lieutenant Brigadier. Alberto Santos Dumont was born July 20, 1873, in the village of Cabangu, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil. He was promoted to the Honorary rank of Air Marshall on September 22, 1955, according to the law no. 3636, and is permanently listed in the Brazilian Air Ministry Almanac. smithsonianeducation.org /scitech/impacto/graphic/aviation/alberto.html   (697 words)

Photo Marketing: Seventh Brazil National Congress draws industry support. (Association News).@ HighBeam Research Approximately 230 photo industry members from Brazil gathered in Sao Paulo, Brazil, July 12-13, for the 7th PMA Brazil National Congress. Highlights of the event at the Hilton Sao Paulo Hotel included presentations by PMA Brazil National Chairperson Carlos Simon, as well as PMA President George R. Champagne, who described his Abar Imaging Center business back in the United States, in Providence, R.I., and the growth of the consumer digital imaging business. Photo Marketing: Seventh Brazil National Congress draws industry support. highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?docid=1G1:91566101&...   (200 words)

Library of Congress Classification [encyclopedia] The classification was originally developed by Herbert Putnam with the advice of Charles Ammi Cutter in 1897 before he assumed the librarianship of Congress. The National Library of Medicine uses unused letters W and late Qs. The Library of Congress Classification (LCC) is a system of library classification developed by the Library of Congress. encyclozine.com /Reference/Library/Classification/Congress   (436 words)

#503: 10-26-99 ATTORNEY GENERAL SIGNS ANTITRUST COOPERATION AGREEMENT WITH BRAZIL The agreement, which also was signed by Federal Trade Commission Chairman Robert Pitofsky and Brazil Minister of Justice José Carlos Dias, becomes effective after approval by the Brazilian National Congress. Brazil is the world's eighth largest economy, with a gross domestic product of over $750 billion in 1998. "This new agreement is a significant step in developing a close relationship between the antitrust agencies of the United States and Brazil," said Attorney General Janet Reno. www.usdoj.gov /opa/pr/1999/October/503at.htm   (470 words)

Национальный Конгресс Бразилии ратифицировал Договор с Украиной по космическому проекту «Циклон-4-Алкантара» On August 11, 2004 the Chamber of Deputies of the National Congress of Brazil ratified the Agreement between Ukraine and the Federative Republic of Brazil on long-term cooperation In particular, Ukrainian delegates handed over copies of NSAU Director General letters for Heads of both Chambers of the National Congress and Minister of Science and Technology of Brazil during the meeting on July 27 at the Environment and Special issues Department with the Head of Sea, Antarctic and Space Division, Mrs. On August 4, according to instructions by the Head of the Chamber of Deputies of the National Congress Ukrainian delegation met with his Deputy and International Issues Advisor. www.nkau.gov.ua /nsau/newsnsau.nsf/AllnewsR/E6FD4AA65FCF803EC2256EEF003787C9?openDocument&Lang=E   (526 words)

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