{"id":5671,"date":"2016-08-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.conectas.org.inf.br\/wp\/noticias\/participation-in-the-legislative\/"},"modified":"2021-03-25T20:15:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T20:15:36","slug":"participation-in-the-legislative","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/participation-in-the-legislative\/","title":"Participation in the Legislative","content":"<div class=\"tts_content_wrapper_1\" ><p>Brazilian organizations will participate at 5:30 pm today in a public hearing in the Lower House of Congress to discuss the duty of the National Congress to increase public participation in the legislative process.<\/p>\n<p>Besides debating the principles of transparency in the public administration, 48 organizations, among them Conectas, will submit a <a href=\"https:\/\/conectas.org\/arquivos\/editor\/files\/160824_CARTA_Parlamento_Aberto.pdf\"><u>letter<\/u><\/a> to the presidency of the house with proposals for institutional innovation to improve the instruments for monitoring the activities of the Lower House by civil society.<\/p>\n<p>Among the recommendations are the creation of a mechanism for organizations to officially contribute to legislative bills pending in the house and the creation of a search tool to identify new bills on specific topics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere can be no full democracy without an end to the opaqueness of state institutions, disclosure of information and processes, accountability and the progressive inclusion of civil society in decision-making processes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/conectas.org\/arquivos\/editor\/files\/160824_CARTA_Parlamento_Aberto.pdf\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to read the letter in full.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><div class=\"tts__custom-position_bottom_fixed\" ><\/div>","excerpt":"<p>Brazilian organizations will participate at 5:30 pm today in a public hearing in the Lower House of Congress to discuss the duty of the National Congr&#8230;<\/p>\n","author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[355],"tema":[12278],"class_list":["post-5671","noticia","type-noticia","status-publish","hentry","category-glance","tag-congress","tema-democracy-and-human-rights-movement"],"acf":{"author":false,"subtitle-pt":"Public hearing in the Lower House discusses greater public participation in the Legislative"},"yoast":{"focuskw":"","title":"","metadesc":"","linkdex":"","metakeywords":"","meta-robots-noindex":"","meta-robots-nofollow":"","meta-robots-adv":"","canonical":"","redirect":"","opengraph-title":"","opengraph-description":"","opengraph-image":"","twitter-title":"","twitter-description":"","twitter-image":""},"featured_image":[],"terms":{"acoes_categorias":[],"acoes_tags":[],"category":[{"term_id":19,"name":"Joint statement","slug":"glance","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":19,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":389,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/category\/glance\/","relative_link":"category\/glance\/","langs":{"en":"glance","br":"breve"}}],"post_tag":[{"term_id":355,"name":"Congress","slug":"congress","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":355,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":17,"filter":"raw","term_order":"0","permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/tag\/congress\/","relative_link":"tag\/congress\/","langs":{"en":"congress","br":"congresso"}}]},"author_name":"Leonardo Medeiros","author_nicename":"leonardo-medeiros","protected":false,"langs":{"en":"participation-in-the-legislative","br":"participacao-no-legislativo"},"permalink":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/participation-in-the-legislative\/","relative_url":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/participation-in-the-legislative\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias\/5671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/noticias"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/noticia"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5671"},{"taxonomy":"tema","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tema?post=5671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}