Afonso Augusto Moreira Pena was a Brazilian politician who served as the sixth president of Brazil between 1906 and 1909. Before his political career,Pena had been an attorney and legal scholar. He was the first president of Brazil to die in office.
Aécio Neves da Cunha is a Brazilian economist,politician and former president of the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB). He was the 17th Governor of Minas Gerais from 1 January 2003 to 31 March 2010,and is currently a member of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. He lost in the runoff presidential election against Dilma Rousseff in 2014.
The law of Brazil is based on statutes and,partly and more recently,a mechanism called súmulas vinculantes. It derives mainly from the civil law systems of European countries,particularly Portugal,the Napoleonic Code and the Germanic law.
Same-sex marriage in Brazil has been legal since 16 May 2013 in accordance with a decision from the National Justice Council,ordering notaries of every state to perform same-sex marriages. Brazil became the second country in South America to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide,after Argentina,and the twelfth worldwide to do so.
Lesbian,gay,bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights in Brazil are among the most advanced in Latin America and the world,with LGBT people having marriage rights available nationwide since May 2013. Despite some prejudice from evangelical fundamentalists,gay couples in Brazil enjoy the same rights guaranteed to heterosexual ones. On June 13,2019,the Brazilian Supreme Court ruled that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is a crime akin to racism.
In Brazil,the Federal Constitution establishes eight law enforcement institutions - seven titulars and one auxiliar. The titular institutions are:the Federal Police,the Federal Highway Police,the Federal Railroad Police,the Federal Penal Police,the State Military Police and Fire Brigade,the State Civil Police and the State Penal Police. Of these,the first four are affiliated to federal authorities and the latter three are subordinated to state governments. These public safety institutions are part of the Executive branch of either federal or state government. Apart from these eight institutions,there are others which affiliate to municipal authorities:the Municipal Guards. According to Minister Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Federal Court,"...the Municipal Guards are inserted in public safety as the auxiliary and related body of public security force..." Federal law 13,022 gave them de facto and de jure police attributions.
Santa Rita do Sapucaí is a municipality situated in the southernmost part of the State of Minas Gerais. The city is known as the "electronic valley",since it has plenty of electronic industries,and both a technical school and a University which hold courses in electronic knowledge. It also has another university –FAI,which has majors in administration and informatics.
The Public Prosecutor's Office is the Brazilian body of independent public prosecutors at both the federal and state level. It operates independently from the three branches of government. It was once referred by constitutional lawyer and former president Michel Temer as a "Fourth Branch". The Constitution of 1988 divides the functions of the Public Prosecutor's Office into three different bodies:the Public Procurator's Office,the Public Defender's Office and the Public Prosecutor's Office itself,each one of them an independent body. In addition to that,the new Constitution created the Courts of Account,also autonomous in its functions.
Censorship in Brazil,both cultural and political,occurred throughout the whole period following the colonization of the country. Even though most state censorship ended just before the period of redemocratization that started in 1985,Brazil still experiences a certain amount of non-official censorship today. The current legislation restricts freedom of expression concerning racism and the Constitution prohibits the anonymity of journalists.
The Judiciary of Brazil is the group of public entities designated by the Brazilian constitution to carry out the country's judicial functions.
Antônio Augusto Junho Anastasia is a Brazilian lawyer and politician,affiliated to the Social Democratic Party. He graduated with a bachelor's and later a master's from the Federal University of Minas Gerais's Law School.
Anti-discrimination laws in Brazil are present in the Constitution of Brazil,in the labour law,in the child and adolescent law,in the ageing law,and in the penal code.
The Federal Government of Brazil is the national government of the Federative Republic of Brazil,a republic in South America divided in 26 states and a federal district. The Brazilian federal government is divided in three branches:the executive,which is headed by the President and the cabinet;the legislative,whose powers are vested by the Constitution in the National Congress;and the judiciary,whose powers are vested in the Supreme Federal Court and lower federal courts. The seat of the federal government is located in Brasília.
The Justiça Eleitoral do Brasil was created by the Decreto nº21.076,of 24 February 1932,representing one of innovations of the Brazilian Revolution of 1930. In 1932 there was the first edited the Brazilian Election Code,inspired by the Election Justice of the Czech Republic and the ideas of Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil,a politician,farmer and ambassador
Rcl 12876 and MS 32077,are landmark Brazil Supreme Court cases.
The Ministry of Transparency,Supervision and Control is a cabinet-level federal ministry created on May 12,2016. The then acting president of Brazil,Michel Temer,created the ministry under Provisional Measure 726/2016. The responsibilities of the former Comptroller General of Brazil were transferred to the ministry. Fabiano Silveira,its first minister,resigned on May 30,2016. From May 30 to June 1,Carlos Higino was the interim minister,and on June 1,Torquato Jardim was installed as the new Transparency Minister.
The Ouro Preto murder case refers to the murder of the student Aline Silveira Soares,found dead in a cemetery in the city of Ouro Preto,Minas Gerais,Brazil. The case triggered significant national coverage by the Brazilian press at the beginning of 2000s.
JoséLevi Mello do Amaral Júnior is a Brazilian jurist. He has a career as Attorney for the National Treasury,as an acclaimed legal expert and professor and held the office of Attorney General for Brazil and Acting Minister of Justice and Public Security between February and March 2017,after the nomination of former minister Alexandre de Moraes to the Supreme Federal Court. He was also Attorney General for the National Treasury and is a licensed professor at the Law School of the University of São Paulo (USP).
Alexandre Silveira de Oliveira is a former police chief,merchant and Brazilian politician,affiliated with the Social Democratic Party (PSD). He is currently a senator for Minas Gerais.
