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Brazil

ICNL’s resources and information on Brazil.

Overview

ICNL supports local partners in Brazil to assess the legal environment for CSOs and develop proposals for enabling reforms. Key themes our partners have addressed include life cycle legislation, public financing of CSOs, the right to freedom of peaceful assembly in the context of Pride Marches and indigenous associations, the legal framework for philanthropy, and more.

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Civic Freedom Monitor

Global Grantmaking Country Notes

In partnership with the Council on Foundations, ICNL maintains reports on thirty-four countries that help U.S grantmakers undertake equivalency determinations for foreign grantees. The reports in this series describe the legal frameworks for nonprofit organizations and provide translations of relevant legislative provisions.

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Resources & News

IAJC Adopts Principles on the Operation of Civil Society Organizations

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ICNL led a participatory process engaging over 100 experts from across Latin America and the Caribbean to develop and propose t…

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IAJC Principles on Creation, Operation, Financing, and Dissolution of Civil Society Organizations

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The Declaration of Inter-American Principles on the Legal Framework for the Creation, Operation, Financing, and Dissolution of …

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OAS Regional Report on CSO Regulation

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Briefer summarizes these laws and implementation practices governing civil society organization in the 35 Organization of Ameri…

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Briefer on the Inter-American Principles on CSO Regulation

Inter-American Juridical Committee

This document was designed to help participants in this process and other stakeholders understand the Principles, advocate for …

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Legal Obstacles to Indigenous Mobilization and Representation in Brazil

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This Portuguese language report investigates the legal barriers to organization and representation of indigenous peoples in Bra…

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Terrorism Financing Risk in Nonprofit Organizations in Latin America

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This ICNL Spanish-language publication is based on survey responses submitted by 729 NPO sector representatives from 17 partici…

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Legal Responses to Covid-19 in Latin American & the Caribbean

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Latin American and Caribbean country’s legal responses to the COVID-19 and the impacts on freedom of association, peaceful asse…

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Positive Government Responses to COVID-19

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The COVID-19 pandemic does not have to be a crisis for human rights. In the context of widespread adoption of emergency laws an…

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Latin America: Freedoms of Association and Peaceful Assembly in Times of Coronavirus

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On April 1, 2020, ICNL hosted Regional Virtual Round Tables for civil society partners in Latin America and the Caribbean to ad…

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Initial Observations on Brazilian President Bolsonaro’s Inauguration Day Decree affecting NGOs

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Immediately after he was sworn into office on January 1, 2019, Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro imposed sweeping changes on t…

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Financial Action Task Force Toolkit

Financial Action Task Force Toolkit: A resource for nonprofit organization engagement in FATF procedures. (Graphic: Jeff Vize/ICNL)

This toolkit unpacks anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing rules and the standards and procedures of FATF for nonp…

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At the Intersection of Security and Regulation

Assessment & monitoring

This 2018 report by the Human Security Collective and ECNL examines the phenomenon of “de-risking,” explores its linkages to AM…

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Understanding the Drivers of De-Risking and the Impact on Civil Society Organizations

Report on The Regulation of Foreign Funding of Nonprofits in a Democracy

This report by the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law and the Human Security Collective addresses how bank de-risking and f…

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Parcerias entre Estado e OSCs – desafios na construção de colaborações para implementação da Lei 13.019/2014

Report on The Regulation of Foreign Funding of Nonprofits in a Democracy

This analysis by Brazilian professor Patricia Maria Emerenciano de Mendonça looks at the history of Sector-State negotiations o…

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Enabling Environment National Assessment

Assessment & monitoring

The Enabling Environment National Assessment (EENA) is an action-oriented research tool designed to assess the legal, regulator…

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Challenges and Opportunities to Promote More Enabling Legal Environments for Civil Society Organizations

Assessment & monitoring

Partners in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Panama gathered data on the practical impact of laws governing civil…

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Setting Up A Regulatory Framework For Partnership Between Civil Society and Public Authorities In Brazil

Assessment & monitoring

This case study on Brazil discusses the development of the regulatory framework for CSOs in the country and describes an inspir…

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CIVICUS State of Civil Society Report 2015

Report on The Regulation of Foreign Funding of Nonprofits in a Democracy

This report from CIVICUS details the key events, issues, and trends affecting civil society around the world. The 2015 report p…

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Brazil Forges New Partnership with Civil Society Organizations

ICNL Fellow Diego Carmona Scardone shares his research on a mechanism for state-civil society partnership in Brazil (photo credit: ICNL)

PUBLISHED: SEPTEMBER 3, 2014 As the government of Brazil seeks to overcome complex social and economic challenges, it is lookin…

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President of Brazil Affirms Support for Enabling Legal Reforms for CSOs

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PUBLISHED: JUNE 5, 2014 In a May 23, 2014 speech during the II International Seminar of the Legal Framework for Civil Society O…

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ICNL and ECNL Announce TEDxLiberdade: The Power of Together

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PUBLISHED: APRIL 16, 2014 ICNL and the European Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL) are pleased to announce TEDxLiberdade: The…

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Brazil’s Own Goal: Protests, Police and the World Cup

Assessment & monitoring

This 2014 report from Article 19 gives an overview of implementation of the right to freedom of peaceful assembly in Brazil, wi…

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Inter-American Commission Human Rights Report on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders in the Americas

Assessment & monitoring

This report on human rights defenders in the Americas, published in 2011 by the Inter‐American Commission on Human Rights (IACH…

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The Legal Framework for Volunteering in Emergencies

Assessment & monitoring

The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies conducted this study on the legal environment for voluntee…

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Decree Creating the National Volunteer Program

D9149 https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2015-2018/2017/decreto/d9149.h tm[9/6/2017 12:39:50 PM] Presidência da República Casa Civil Subchefia para Assuntos Jurídicos DECRETO ...

Regulation disciplining terrorism, dealing with investigatory and procedural dispositions and reformulating the concept of terrorist organization

6/28/2016 L13260 https://www.planalto.gov.br/CCIVIL_03/_Ato2015­2018/2016/Lei/L13260.htm 1/5 P re s id ê n c ia  d a  R ...

LAW No. 13.019. OF JULY 31, 2014

Presidencia de la República Casa Civil Subjefatura para Asuntos Jurídicos LEY Nº 13019, DEL 31 ...
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