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Secretariat For Human Rights
The Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship (, MDHC), formerly the Ministry of Woman, Family and Human Rights (2019–2022) and Secretariat for Human Rights of the Presidency of the Republic (1997–2015) is an office attached to the President of Brazil, Presidency of Brazil. Its purpose is to implement, promote, and protect human rights, civic rights, and the children's rights, rights of children, adolescents, women, families, the elderly, and the disabled. Background The Secretariat was created on 7 April 1997, during the first administration of Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Originally called the National Human Rights Secretariat ''(Secretaria Nacional dos Direitos Humanos),'' it was initially attached to the Ministry of Justice. On 1 January 1999, responsibility for the Secretariat was transferred to the President's office. On 28 May 2002, it was renamed Special Secretariat for Human Rights (''Secretaria Especial dos Direitos Humanos''). It assumed its current name on 25 March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry (government Department)
Ministry or department (also less commonly used secretariat, office, or directorate) are designations used by first-level executive bodies in the machinery of governments that manage a specific sector of public administration." Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона", т. XIX (1896): Мекенен — Мифу-Баня, "Министерства", с. 351—357 :s:ru:ЭСБЕ/Министерства These types of organizations are usually led by a politician who is a member of a cabinet—a body of high-ranking government officials—who may use a title such as minister, secretary, or commissioner, and are typically staffed with members of a non-political civil service, who manage its operations; they may also oversee other government agencies and organizations as part of a political portfolio. Governments may have differing numbers and types of ministries and departments. In some countries, these terms may be used with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of State
The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other nations, its primary duties are advising the U.S. president on international relations, administering diplomatic missions, negotiating international treaties and agreements, protecting citizens abroad and representing the U.S. at the United Nations. The department is headquartered in the Harry S Truman Building, a few blocks from the White House, in the Foggy Bottom neighborhood of Washington, D.C.; "Foggy Bottom" is thus sometimes used as a metonym. Established in 1789 as the first administrative arm of the U.S. executive branch, the State Department is considered among the most powerful and prestigious executive agencies. It is headed by the U.S. secretary of state, who reports directly to the U.S. president and is a mem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilma Lino Gomes
Nilma Lino Gomes (born 1961) is a Brazilian professor, researcher, and university administrator. She was the first Black woman in Brazil to lead a public federal university after having been named rector of the University for International Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (UNILAB) in 2013. She has been active in the fight against racism in Brazil. On 2 October 2015, she was nominated by president Dilma Rousseff to be the first minister of the recently created Ministry of Women, Racial Equality, and Human Rights, which brought together the secretaries of the Policies for Women, Racial Equality, and Human Rights and parts of the General Secretariat. Prior to the merger, she had been the Minister of Racial Equality. She remained in the position until the temporary removal and then impeachment of Dilma by the Federal Senate. Career Gomes, a native of Belo Horizonte, graduated with a degree in pedagogy from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in 1988. She lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pepe Vargas
Gilberto José Spier Vargas, better known as Pepe Vargas (born 29 October 1958) is a Brazilian doctor and politician. He served as the mayor of Caxias do Sul from 1997 to 2005, as well as a state and federal deputy in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. During the Dilma Rousseff administration, he served in various ministerial roles. Political career Elected office In 1996, Vargas was elected to become the mayor of the city of Caxias do Sul. He advanced from the first round with more than 80,000 votes, or 48.68%, and faced the second place candidate from the PMDB, Germano Rigotto, who received 77,079 votes. In the second round, Vargas obtained 51.13% and won the election. Four years later, he would go on to run for reelection against José Ivo Sartori, also of the PMDB. Vargas came in first in the first round again with 48.15% of the vote (94,923), against Sartori's 43.11% (84,989). Kalil Sehbe Neto, of the PDT, came in third with 8.72% (17,194). Weeks after, in a tight race, V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ideli Salvatti
Ideli Salvatti is a Brazilian politician. She became the first woman to be elected senator of the state of Santa Catarina. She was the Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture in the Dilma Rousseff Dilma Vana Rousseff (; born 14 December 1947) is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the only woman to have held the ... Government. She later worked in the Secretariat of Institutional Relations and Secretariat of Human Rights. Biography She graduated with a degree in Physics from the University of Paraná . She married Eurides Mescolotto and had two children and later she married Jeferson Figueiredo in 2009. References , - , - , - 1952 births Living people 21st-century Brazilian women politicians 21st-century Brazilian politicians Government ministers of Brazil Women government ministers of Brazil Politicians from São P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dilma Rousseff
Dilma Vana Rousseff (; born 14 December 1947) is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th president of Brazil from 2011 until her impeachment and removal from office on 31 August 2016. She is the only woman to have held the Brazilian presidency. Since March 2023, she has been the Chair of the New Development Bank. She also served in the cabinet of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during his first presidency—first as Minister of Mines and Energy, from 2003 to 2005, then as Chief of Staff from 2005 to 2010. Rousseff was raised in an upper middle class household in Belo Horizonte. She became a socialist in her youth. After the 1964 coup d'état she joined left-wing and Marxist urban guerrilla groups that fought against the military dictatorship. Rousseff was captured, tortured, and jailed from 1970 to 1972. After her release, Rousseff rebuilt her life in Porto Alegre with her husband Carlos Araújo. They both helped to found the Democratic Labour Party (PDT) in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Do Rosário
Maria do Rosário Nunes (born 22 November 1966) is a Brazilian teacher and politician. She graduated in pedagogy from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, and took a postgraduate degree at the University of São Paulo. From 2011 to 2014, she served as the Secretary for Human Rights under the Rousseff administration. With the exception of her three-year tenure as Human Rights Secretary, she has been a congresswoman since 2003, representing the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul as a member of the Worker's Party (Brazil). Early life and education Maria do Rosário Nunes was born on 22 November 1966 in the municipality of Veranópolis. In her youth she was an active member of the student movement. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (; born Luiz Inácio da Silva; 27 October 1945), known Mononym, mononymously as Lula, is a Brazilian politician, trade unionist and former metalworker who has served as the 39th president of Brazil since 2023. A member of the Workers' Party (Brazil), Workers' Party, Lula was also the 35th president from 2003 to 2011. Born in Pernambuco, Lula quit school after second grade to work, and did not learn to read until he was ten years old. As a teenager, he worked as a metalworker and became a trade unionist. Between 1978 and 1980, he led the 1978–1980 ABC Paulista strikes, ABC workers' strikes during Brazil's military dictatorship in Brazil, military dictatorship, and in 1980, he helped start the Workers' Party during Redemocratization in Brazil, Brazil's redemocratization. Lula was one of the leaders of the 1984 Diretas Já, ''Diretas Já'' movement, which demanded direct elections. In 1986 Brazilian legislative election, 1986, he was elected a federal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nilmário Miranda
Nilmário Miranda (born 11 August 1947) is a Brazilian politician, affiliated with the Workers' Party. Miranda was born in Teófilo Otoni, in the state of Minas Gerais. He holds a degree in journalism and a graduate degree in political scienc He was imprisoned by the military government for three years and one month in 1972–7 He served in the Minas Gerais State Congress from 1987 to 1991, and then in the federal Chamber of Deputies of Brazil, Chamber of Deputies from 1991 to 2003, where he chaired the human rights committee. In January 2003, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva selected him to head the federal Secretariat for Human Rights, where he served until July 2005. He ran for the governorship of Minas Gerais in 2002 and 2006, but lost on both occasions to Aécio Neves of the Social Democrats Social democracy is a social, economic, and political philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist, and democrati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro
Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro (born 8 January 1944) is a Brazilian legal scholar with relevant work within the United Nations System. Career Pinheiro was born in Rio de Janeiro. He has a long career in academia, having held academic positions at the University of São Paulo, among others. Within the United Nations System, he served as the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar from 2000 to 2008. He also served as United Nations Special Rapporteur for Burundi from 1995 to 1999, and was a member of the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. In 2003, Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Pinheiro as an independent expert, with the rank of Assistant Secretary-General, to prepare an in-depth study into the global phenomenon of violence against children, which was presented to the General Assembly in 2006. Pinheiro served as one of the seven commissioners of the Organization of American States's Inter-American Commission on Human Rights fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Gregori
José Gregori (13 October 1930 – 3 September 2023) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician. A member of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party and the Brazilian Social Democracy Party, he served as Special Secretary for Human Rights from 1997 to 2000 and as Minister of Justice A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice, is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice. The ministry or department is often headed by a minister of justice (minister for justice in a ... from 2000 to 2001. Gregori died on 3 September 2023, at the age of 92. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Gregori, Jose 1930 births 2023 deaths Brazilian Democratic Movement politicians Brazilian Social Democracy Party politicians São Paulo (state) politicians Members of the Legislative Assembly of São Paulo Ministers of justice of Brazil Ambassadors of Brazil to Portugal Brazilian people of Italian descent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sean Goldman
In the Goldman child abduction case David Goldman fought for his son Sean Goldman to be returned to the United States after his abduction by his mother to Brazil in 2004. After years of court battles, Sean was returned to his father five and a half years later in 2009. This case of international child abduction gained significant attention in the media and from U.S. politicians. Abduction and legal developments Sean Richard Bianchi Carneiro Ribeiro Goldman was born in the year 2000 in the United States, to an American father and Brazilian mother. In June 2004, at the age of four years, Sean went to Brazil with his mother for a two-week vacation. However, his mother refused to return Sean to the United States. The father David Goldman vowed to have his son back and lawsuits and counter-lawsuits ensued both in the United States and in Brazil. The child abduction case evolved around application of Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. A 2005 Brazilian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
