Brazilian Foreign Ministry opens campaign for presidency of Inter American Human Rights Commission

Criado em 08/05/13 12h55 e atualizado em 08/05/13 13h05
Por Renata Giraldi Edição:s Fonte:Agencia Brasil

Brasilia – Following the successful campaign to elect ambassador Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo as director general of the World Trade Organization, the Brazilian government is now determined to elect former head of the Secretariat of Human Rights, Paulo Vannuchi to one of three positions on the Organization of American States’ Inter American Human Rights Commission. As head of the secretariat, Vannuchi was a cabinet member from 2005 to 2010, that is, a minister of state. He is a social scientist and political consultant. At the moment he is the director of the Lula Institute in São Paulo.

This week, Vannuchi was presented to representatives of the 21 nation members of the OAS during a meeting at the Brazilian Foreign Ministry, Itamaraty. According to minister of Foreign Relations, Antonio Patriota, Vannuchi’s reception was very positive.

Vannuchi is one of four first-time candidates, along with two candidates running for reelection, who are disputing three posts with mandates that will run from 2014 to 2017. The election will take place between June 4 and 6, at the 43rd General Assembly of the OAS in Guatemala.

The other first-time candidates are: James Cavallaro, of the United States; Erick Roberts Garcés, Ecuador; Javier de Balaúnde López de Romaña, Peru. The two candidates who are running for reelection are: José de Jesús Orozco Henríquez, México, and the current president of the comission; Rodrigo Escobar Gil, from Colombia. Members of the commission can be reelected once.

Over the last two years, Brazil has finally begun to get candidates elected to positions in international organizations. In June 2011, José Graziano da Silva became the director general of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. Yesterday, Roberto Carvalho de Azevedo was elected director general of the World Trade Organization.

Editors: Jose Romildo / Licia Marques

Translator: Allen Bennett