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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

We are reaching the end of fiscal year 2022- 2023.  With that said, we are happy to announce that the Annual General Meeting is going to be occoring March 20 2023, right at the end of this year.  We are going to be discussing the progress of the company and the forecast for the next fiscal year.  We are also going to present our Annual Report which details our operating costs and revenue.  We look forward to this meeting as it is a time by which we can reflect on this year to better forecast the next.

ORIENTATION: CLERK

STRUCTURE: RFP/RFQ 10092022

STRUCTURE: MEETING MINUTES 09AUG2022

STRUCTURE: RFP & RFQ 17340108202

SCHOLAR: RACIAL BRAZIL

Brazil is comprised of 212.6 million people as of 2020.  According to The Gaurdian, “50.7% of Brazilians now define themselves as black or mixed race compared with 47.7% whites.”  Brazil has a race issue.  Racial prejudice in Brazil is very real and explicit.  Regardless of how white middle class believe in equality with the Brazilian ‘negros,’ there are many stereotypes which paint these Afrodescendants in a negative light such as, “sexual promiscuity and aversion to thrift, work, and trustworthieness” (Powel 2012 page 486).  Movements lead by these descendants were successful in bringing to light the state of Afrodesdendants.  Such movements include The Unified Black Movement against Racial Discrimination.  Through social movements, the issue of racial discrimination has been brough to the attention of the state which has acted to rectify the problem.  

Brazil has in recent history enacted racial quotas via affirmative action initiatives.  This foreign policy measure aims to promote diversity.  It gives equity to those that are Afrodescendants.   At the World Conference on Racism in South Africa in September 2001, “Brazil recommended quotas to expand the access of [these] Afrodescended students to public universities” (Powel 2012 page 486).”  This would effectively give these people a social lever by which they can play a more active role in society.  State governments in Rio de Janeiro and Bahia then announced then that they would reserve 40% of places in their state universities for Afrodescendants.  These Afrodescendants are the poorest, least educated and most severely disadvantaged in Brazilian society.  The fact, that Brazil recognized this and made policy to address the issue paints a positive image of their country on the world stage.  In 2009, Brazil’s president, “signed a new bill establishing a race- based affirmative action program for civil servant positions country wide” (Oxford Human Rights Hub).  The bill reserves 20 percent of said positions for Brazilian ‘negros.’  Brazils ability to recognize and support the racial diversity within their state could serve as a method for them to take on a bigger role in international commitments.  Although these racial equality measures have been implemented, the economic gap between whites and blacks persist.  What is successful about these types of foreign policy is that the state of Brazil is preparing itself for a globalized world.  By adequately putting in place measures which clearly need time to bear positive results, Brazil is safeguarding the interest of the racial diversity of their nation.  Through this, they could have a wider role within the liberal West which values equality, democracy, justice and rule of law.   

 

WORK CITED

Powel, Bingham, “Comparative Politics Today,” Pearson (2012). 

Conceicao Isis, “Brazil’s laws on quotas and the road to racial equality,” Oxford Human Rights Hub (2014).  Retrieved from:  http://ohrh.law.ox.ac.uk/brazils-laws-on-quotas-and-the-road-to-racial-equality/

Srivastava, Pragya, “India’s economic growth story remarkable since 1990s, never mind quarterly fluctuations:  World Bank,” Financial Express (2018).  Retrieved from:  https://www.financialexpress.com/economy/indias-economic-growth-story-remarkable-since-1990s-never-mind-quarterly-fluctuations-world-bank/1098628/

The Gaurdian, “Brazil census shows African- Brazilians in the majority for the first time,”  The GAurdian (2021).  Retrieved from:  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/nov/17/brazil-census-african-brazilians-majority