Brazil includes food security as constitutional right
By IANSFriday, February 5, 2010
Brasilia, Feb 5 (IANS/EFE) The Brazilian Congress has proclaimed food security as a new constitutional right of all citizens, along with health, housing, work, social security, and child protection.
The inclusion of food among Brazilians’ basic rights was approved in a legislative session Thursday in which Senate President Jose Sarney said that the country “now has the satisfaction of having a constitution with the world’s best social-rights provisions”.
Separately, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said he intends to send Congress a bill this year proposing that the far-reaching social programmes his government has implemented since 2003 be adopted as law.
According to the centre-left president, his goal is to ensure the preservation of social “conquests” made during his time in office, which will conclude Jan 1, 2011, when he hands over power to the winner of the Oct 3 presidential election.
–IANS/EFE
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March 4, 2010: 1:24 am
By constitutional determination regarding the educational system, the aforementioned legislation still applies as long as it does not go against the Constitution. This ambiguity is a consequence of the absence of a new Bases and Guidelines Law and characterizes a transition phase until the new law is finally elaborated and enacted. The bill has already been submitted to congress. |
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March 3, 2010: 3:53 am
The new Constitution does not set age limits: it determines that education is compulsory, aiming at providing the necessary structure to the development of the students potential as an element of selffulfillment, training for work, and conscious exercise of citizenship. |
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