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The Australian Foreign Affairs Minister, Alexander Downer, declared that he is in favor of Brazilian participation as a permanent member of the United Nations (UN) Security Council.
According to the Australian Minister, reform of the Council is necessary to bring the organization abreast of today's world. Downer was in the Ministry of Foreign Relations, in Brasília, Wednesday, January 4. "I believe the reform is necessary. The international community should press for this to happen, because we require a Council that represents the world as it is nowadays. The world is not the same as in 1945 [the year in which the UN was founded]. That is why I defend the entry of Brazil, Japan, and an African country, because that's the way the world is now," Downer said. The Brazilian minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, observed that the two countries share certain viewpoints. "Regarding the international agenda, I would say that our perspectives on the United Nations and multilateralism, including the need to reform the Security Council as well as other UN bodies, are very similar." According to the Brazilian Minister, expanding the Security Council could be a form of democratizing the UN. "It is important for the reforms to be made in such a way as to make the UN more democratic. Criticisms are sometimes made, even concerning Security Council reform, that countries are after more privileges. That is not the case. Expanding the number of countries with seats on the Security Council is one of the ways to enlarge democratic spaces," he affirms. As for the UN's role in current international conflicts, the Australian minister said that the organization will not resolve all the problems but that it should protect lives. "There is an awareness on the part of the member countries that a modicum of responsibility exists. We know that the UN will not resolve everything; countries, too, must deal with their problems, and the cooperation is important," he affirmed. In Amorim's view, the two countries have acted positively and cooperated in the solution of other disputes. "Australia played a significant role in East Timor, and Brazil played an important part in Angola and now in Haiti." Amorim went on to say that Brazil has acted with forthrightness in the area of human rights. "In the case of human rights, it was Brazil, for example, that proposed a resolution in the Human Rights Commission stating that racism is incompatible with democracy." Agência Brasil
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The small, coastal town of Condé is located just a twenty minute's drive from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba. The Northeast of Brazil has historically been a place of encounter and mixing between peoples. For millenia groups of indigenous people fished, farmed, migrated and sometimes fought along this large, fertile area. 
The Brazilian diplo-MÁ-cia (bad diplomacy) carries on its accelerated course towards the non-acknowledgment of human rights, although sometimes it takes pleasure in saying that it does precisely the opposite. The visit of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is another example of a diplomatic omission that verges on hypocrisy. 
On July 4, 2006, representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). After two and a half years, the protocol was approved by the legislative bodies of Argentina and Uruguay, and as of now it may be only days away from being ratified by the continent's economic megalith, Brazil. 
Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight against the illness in his country throughout his two terms. 
One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, work in basements of small apparel factories in São Paulo and other metropolis. 
On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video (see link below). It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking. 
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Geisy Arruda made history this week in Brazil, but for all the wrong reasons. What began as a poorly planned fashion statement has become a worldwide tale. Geisy decided to wear a pink mini-dress to her private college in São Paulo state, and after that, all hell broke loose. 
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A dispute over drug trafficking territory in Rio de Janeiro has intensified lately, leaving in its wake unprecedented acts of violence, such as the downing of a police helicopter in the northern zone of the city on October 17. Three policemen died and another two were injured. This event has drawn the attention of the international media, who are raising the issue of public security for the 2016 Olympics to be held in Rio.
Neither economically, politically or militarily.
Your obsessional dreams of becoming a pernament seat member will remain a dream for years to come.
Concerning other International disputes, Angola was a small problem and Haiti is not at war, from what I know.
Should every country that participated in one or two International disputes be a permanent security member of the UN ?
Then there should be a minimum of 150 permanent UN security seats, as the vast majority of countries participated in small International disputes.
Finally on Human rights, proposing good resolutions are welcomed. But why are they not applied first in your own country ?
You can just refer to International Agencies reports and even the Brazilian ones.
On Human Rights issues you are not very well ranked. Reality is even that you are badly ranked.