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Weekly Report - 22 February 2018 (WR-18-07)

The rise and fall of Brazil’s Luislinda Valois

Luislinda Valois stepped down as head of Brazil’s recently reinstated human rights ministry this week, one year after she assumed the post. An outspoken black woman with a legal background, Valois was tasked with improving diversity in President Michel Temer’s male-dominated cabinet. There are now no black ministers in government and just one woman, Grace Maria Fernandes Mendonça, who heads the attorney general’s office (AGU).

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