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Brazil: Women Take Power in Government

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2012-01-19 07:37

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Brazil's new president, Dilma Rousseff, has quickly stepped out of the shadow of her charismatic predecessor Lula. After one year in office, she is more popular than any former president was at this stage. She has surrounded herself with powerful women, who are now calling the shots in Brasília.

The epicenter of Brazilian power can be found on the fourth floor of the Palacio do Planalto in Brasília, the nation's capital. Liveried waiters elegantly carry trays of coffee through the hallways of the presidential palace, high-ranking officials wait in anterooms and air-conditioning units hum in the offices.

Planning Minister Miriam Belchior rushes past on her way to visit Chief of Staff Gleisi Hoffmann, with whom she will discuss a multi-billion-real investment program to combat poverty. On the way she is greeted by Ideli Salvatti, the woman who manages the government's relations with Congress. Two floors down, Press Secretary Helena Chagas is talking on the phone. In the front office, several women are reviewing the day's newspapers.

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Read more in Speiegel Online, published 19 Jan


Brazil: Popular President Helps Women in Politics

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2012-01-04 10:07

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Manuela D'Avila hopes she and women like her will change the face of government in Brazil, a country where the female presence in politics has lagged behind neighbors despite the election of Dilma Rousseff as the nation's first female president.

D'Avila, a two-time state legislator who is leading the mayoral race in Porto Alegre, Brazil's tenth largest city, is among of an unprecedented number of women running for municipal offices in 2012 elections.

Forty-seven other women are candidates to run the capitals of Brazil's 26 states. The field of contenders is still shifting, but it's a large increase from the last elections, when only 28 women ran for mayor of state capitals.

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Read more in ABC News, published 29 Dec.


Brazil: Women gain power in Planalto palace

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2011-06-22 10:10

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Brazil's first woman president now has ten women in her cabinet, two short of her 30 per cent target. By appointing women to two key ministries this month, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has nearly met her goal of having a cabinet comprising at least 30 per cent women, with women in predominant roles at the Planalto Palace, the seat of government.

Rose Marie Muraro, a writer and pioneer of Brazil's feminist movement in the 1970s who, like Rousseff herself, inspired many of the women in politics today, is enthusiastic. "The hard core of power is in the hands of women, and that is very important", said Muraro, who was declared by law a 'National Patron of Feminism' by former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (2003-2010).

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For the whole article, go to Al Jazeera


Ending Violence Against Women and Human Trafficking: A Guide to New Strategies

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This toolkit provides you with resources and ideas to help focus your efforts to fight domestic violence, sexual violence and trafficking and to give you a framework for action. It contains not only specific case studies of women across the globe, but it also provides policy background as well as concrete examples of what you can do to mount a campaign to combat human trafficking, sexual violence or domestic violence. Contact the authors at sfoster[at]stepheniefoster.com
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Brazil: Brazil Swears In Its First Female President

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Tue, 2011-01-04 03:11

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From torture in a dictatorship-era jail cell to the helm of Latin America's largest nation, it's been an unlikely political rise for President Dilma Rousseff, a former Marxist rebel turned career technocrat who claimed Brazil's seat of power Saturday.

In becoming the country's 36th president, Rousseff pulled off a feat nearly unthinkable a year ago when the relative unknown was tapped by then-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to be the ruling Workers Party candidate.

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For more information, please visit NPR.


Brazil: Gender Gap Persists in Brazil Despite Election of Female President

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Fri, 2010-11-05 07:28

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Despite having elected a woman as president, Brazil still offers fewer opportunities to its female population, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) said Thursday.

Brazil ranked 80th among the 138 countries in the UNDP's gender equality list, with a Gender Inequality Index (GII) of 0.631. The indicator goes from zero to 1 and the higher the GII, the more gender inequality a country has.

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For more information, please visit CRIEnglish.com.


Brazl: Elects First Woman President

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2010-11-01 08:29

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Brazil has elected its first woman president: Dilma Rousseff took the top slot after yesterday’s runoff election. The former energy secretary and chief of staff to president Luiz Inácio da Silva declared in her victory speech that her “mission is to eradicate poverty,” CNN reports. A left-wing fighter under Brazil’s 1960s military dictatorship, Rousseff beat centrist José Serra, a former governor of Sao Paulo and health minister; she took 56% of the vote, the AP notes.

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To read the complete news story please visit Newser.


Brazil: Brazil's greens turn right in presidential vote

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Wed, 2010-10-06 23:59

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Powered by progressive, neoconservative capital and soft power techniques Green Party candidate Marina Silva sent shock waves through Brazil's male dominated political culture by winning 19 million votes in Sunday's presidential election. She didn't make the cut for the runoff presidential vote but she could become a power broker now that the influential Folha is reporting that her party is supporting neoconservative former Sao Paulo governor Jose Serra over president Lula's former chief-of-staff, Dilma Rousseff.

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For more information, please visit The Huffington Post.


Brazil: Dilma Rousseff slated to become Brazil's first woman president

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Mon, 2010-10-04 05:39

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All eyes are on Brazil's presidential elections which were held today. As it stands, Dilma Rousseff, a 62-year-old economist, will become the nation's first woman president. Rousseff was supported by outgoing President Lula who has served his maximum two terms.

Almost 80 percent of the votes are counted, and Rousseff has 45.4 percent of the valid votes. 136 million people are eligible to vote in Brazilian elections today. Dilma Rousseff needs 50 percent of the vote to declare a victory.

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For more information, please visit Huliq.com.


Elections: Brazil

Submitted by iKNOW Politics on Thu, 2010-09-30 02:48
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Brazil is holding parliamentary elections as well as the first round of presidential elections on October 3.   The electoral system works as follows:

- The President is elected by absolute majority vote through a two-round system to serve a 4-year term.

- In the Federal Senate (Senado Federal) 81 members are elected by plurality vote in multi-member constituencies to serve 8-year terms. In the Chamber of Deputies (Camara dos Deputados) 513 members are elected through an open-list proportional representation system to serve 4-year terms.

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