{"id":19253,"date":"2019-12-04T16:05:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T16:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&p=19253"},"modified":"2021-04-05T13:15:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T13:15:00","slug":"19253-2","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/19253-2\/","title":"NGOS condemn removal of Deborah Duprat from Brazil\u2019s Human Rights Council","content":"

Nearly 200 civil society organizations have spoken out in defense of the independence
\nof the CNDH (National Human Rights Council), following an irregular maneuver by the
\nProsecutor-General Augusto Aras, who has proclaimed himself the representative of
\nthe State on the body.<\/p>\n

On Monday, December 2, Aras substituted in an authoritarian way the government
\nrepresentative on the Council, Deborah Duprat, a sub-prosecutor-general and member
\nof the Office of the Federal Prosecutor for the Rights of the Citizen, who was serving a
\nterm on the body that lasted until May 2020. By law, members of the CNDH Presiding
\nBoard must be chosen by a full session of the Council for a two-year term.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is not natural to dissolve participation councils; it is not natural to remove council
\nmembers from office; it is not natural to appoint bionic presidents to the presidency of
\ncouncils; it is not natural to infringe elected members; it is not natural to remove from
\noffice a council member elected vice president in the middle of their term \u2013 even when
\nall this is passed off as natural or as formal with the appearance of legality,\u201d reads the
\ndocument.<\/p>\n

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