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The National Archives of Brazil has two reference libraries, especially in the areas of Brazilian History and Archival science. The library of the headquarters of the institution in Rio de Janeiro, called Biblioteca Maria Beatriz Nascimento, [18] was created in 1876 through Decree No. 6164 of March 24, 1876. [19]
Brazilian National Archives; Arquivo Edgard Leuenroth; Brazilian Studies Institute (University of São Paulo); Arquivo Público do Estado da Bahia; Arquivo Público Municipal de Caetité
The Brazil Memory of the World Register lists cultural heritage of national importance, as part of the UNESCO Memory of the World Programme. There are also many Brazilian entries on the Memory of the World International Register .
The Brazilian Women Writers Collection (Portuguese: Coleção Escritoras do Brasil) is an initiative of the Federal Senate Library, and is published by the Federal Senate Secretariat for Printing and Publishing. Its purpose is to publicise the intellectual work of Brazilian women writers who have been under-represented or practically ignored in ...
Brazil: The Once and Future Country (2nd ed. 1998), an interpretive synthesis of Brazil's history. Fausto, Boris, and Arthur Brakel. A Concise History of Brazil (Cambridge Concise Histories) (2nd ed. 2014) excerpt and text search; Garfield, Seth. In Search of the Amazon: Brazil, the United States, and the Nature of a Region. Durham: Duke ...
Thousands of women protested on Saturday against a bill advancing in Brazil's conservative Congress that would equate abortions after 22 weeks of pregnancy to homicide and establish sentences of ...
The National Brazilian Congress has a bicameral system, with the Chamber of Deputies and the Federal Senate. [1] Women are extremely underrepresented in both parts of the Congress. Between 1983 and 2015 women only made up on average 7.2% of seats in the Senate, and 6.2% of seats in the Chamber of Deputies. [2]
In a rejection of early moves by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who took office in January, Brazil’s Congress has stripped powers from the new Ministry of Indigenous Peoples and Ministry ...