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2007
Up one levelSouth America Integration
One of the new challenges posed to the Brazilian civil society is to follow-up, monitor and intervene in the South American countries’ integration. As of 2010, the Mercosur Parliament – the legislative authority of regional representation – will rest on the participation of Brazilian representatives elected in direct elections (currently, the Brazilian National Congress designates 18 representatives). The establishment and implementation of that Parliament, jointly with the South American Regional Infrastructure Integration Initiative (IIRSA), demand the civil society’s participation and intervention to avoid a process that disregards the interests of populations in the region’s countries.
Goodbye Bizeh
The Institut for Socioeconomic Studies – Inesc’s team regrets to inform the decease, on November 23, of Maria José Jaime, our dearest Bizeh Jaime, the founder of our institution, Historian, former political exile and one of the precursors of the Brazilian organized civil society.
Global Call to Action against Poverty – Together for Equality
It is one of the biggest alliances ever organized by male and female citizens all over the world. It gathers 200 organizations and social movements over more than 100 countries.
