Brasília – Over the last two years, Brazilian authorities have been celebrating disputes for positions in organisations like the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), the Organisation of American States (OAS) and the International Cotton Advisory Committee (Icac). Furthermore, the list includes several areas, like the legal, health, agricultural, chemical weapon and female human rights areas.
Election of former minister Paulo Vannuchi to one of the three posts of the OAS’s IACHR is one more Brazilian victory in international organisations. His election took place one month after Brazilian ambassador Roberto Carvalho de Azevêdo was elected general manager of the WTO, being the first Latin-American to head the organisation in history.
On the 7th, in turn, the Brazilian José Sette was chosen executive head of the International Cotton Advisory Committee (Icac). It all started, in turn, with the choice of former minister José Graziano da Silva to the post of director general of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Four months later, Robério Oliveira Silva was elected executive director of the International Coffee Organisation.
In November 2011, ambassador Gilberto Saboia was elected to head the International Law Commission. In June 2012, lawyer Roberto Figueiredo Caldas was chosen to head the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. In the same month and year, jurist Silvia Pimentel won a post in the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.
In January 2012, Bráulio Ferreira de Souza Dias was chosen executive secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity. In August 2012, the Inter-American Legal Committee (CJI) elected as its president the former OAS secretary general and retired ambassador João Clemente Baena Soares. In October, lawyer Maria Margarida Pressburger was re-elected for one more term at the Subcommittee for Prevention of Torture, among other victories.
*Translated by Mark Ament
