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Associação Nacional das Defensoras e Defensores Públicos

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Areas of expertise & Fields of activity:	Economic and Social: Aging Children Crime Prevention Criminal Justice Decolonization Disabled Persons Education Extreme poverty Family Habitat Human Rights Humanitarian Affairs Indigenous Peoples Information Justice Minority Rights Peace and Security Social Development Sustainable Development Torture Violence Women/gender Equality Youth Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Human rights of women Indigenous women Institutional mechanisms for the advancement of women Policy advice The girl child Violence against women Women and health Women and poverty Women in power and decision-making Social Development: Aging Disabled persons Indigenous issues Information and Communications Technologies Poverty Social policy Youth
Geographic scope:	Regional Latin America and Caribbean
Country of activity:	Brazil
Mission statement:	The Brazilian National Association of Public Defenders (BNAPD), successor to the Brazilian National Federation of Public Defenders (BNFPD), created on 3 July, 1984, is civil, non-profit and has non-political purposes, created for unlimited time and congregates active and retired public defenders of Brazil, to the defense of its prerogatives, rights, interests and free exercise, struggling for the Public Defense objectives as a permanent State Institution, independent and autonomous, expression and instrument of the democratic regime, to whom entrusts the promotion of the human rights and broad defense, both individual and collective, comprehensive and free, of the right of people in situations of vulnerability. Our main goal is to provide an equal access to Justice in Brazil, specially to the people in situations of vulnerability.
Year established:	1997
Year of registration:	1997
Organizational structure:	The bodies of the BNAPD are: I – the General Assemblies; II – the Board of Directors; III – the Consulting Board; IV – the Fiscal Board; V – the Brazilian National School of Public Defenders (BNSPD).
Number and type of members:	The social framework will be composed of effective and institutional members.Effective partners are the Public Defenders associated to the BNAPD (around 6000 public defenders). Institutional partners are the local entities of class that request their subscription, one for each federate entity (27 institutional partners).
Funding structure:	Membership fees or dues

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