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Renato Simões
Brazil
National Secretary of Social Participation
Description
Renato Simões is a philosopher, graduated from Pontifical Catholic University of Campinas (PUCCAMP), with a postgraduate degree in Human Rights from the Law School of the University of São Paulo (USP). He was a state deputy for the Brazilian Workers' Party (PT) in São Paulo for three consecutive terms, from 1995 to 2007. He chaired the Human Rights Committee of the Legislative Assembly of the State of São Paulo for ten years, created from a project of his authorship back in 1995. In 2013 and 2014, he was a federal deputy for the PT-SP. In the Chamber of Deputies, he was part of the Human Rights and Minorities Committee and created the Evandro Lins e Silva Human Rights Award. During Dilma Rousseff's government, he served as Special Advisor for Social Participation at the General Secretariat of the Presidency and at the Government Secretariat of the Presidency. He was the executive coordinator of the National Association for Life and Justice in Support and Defense of COVID Victims' Rights, general coordinator of the Christians' Action for the Abolition of Torture, and National Secretary for Human Rights of the PT. He is a member of the National Directory of the PT, where he has been part of the State Executive in São Paulo and the National Executive, and presided over the Municipal Directory of Campinas. In the National Secretariat for Social Participation, he is responsible for promoting participatory democracy within the government.
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