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Alexandra Oancea, 8 January 2026
A Year in Constitution-Building: What 2025 Revealed, What 2026 May BringJuliano Zaiden Benvindo and Matheus de Souza Depieri, 13 October 2025
The Rejection of the “Shielding Constitutional Amendment” (“Pec Da Blindagem”) In Brazil: An Important Reaffirmation of the Rule of Law and Popular SovereigntyJuliano Zaiden Benvindo, 26 August 2022
Brazil’s Frenetic Pace of Constitutional Change under Bolsonaro: Why and What Next?8 April 2026
Brazil's government debates using constitutional amendment or ordinary legislation for workweek reform28 November 2025
Brazil's senate revives proposed constitutional amendment lengthening terms and eliminating reelection for executive positions25 September 2025
Brazil's senate rejects proposed constitutional amendment shielding legislators from criminal proceedings
Brazil's government debates using constitutional amendment or ordinary legislation for workweek reform8 April 2026
The government of President Lula has decided to send Congress a bill to abolish the so-called 6-on-1 workweek, where employees work six consecutive days followe…
Brazil's senate revives proposed constitutional amendment lengthening terms and eliminating reelection for executive positions28 November 2025
New maneuvering in the Senate is reviving Constitutional Amendment Proposal (PEC) 12/2022, which discusses ending reelection and altering the term limits for pr…
Brazil's senate rejects proposed constitutional amendment shielding legislators from criminal proceedings25 September 2025
The Brazilian Senate buried on Wednesday (24) the so-called “shielding bill”, a constitutional amendment that would have made it harder to open criminal proceed…
Op-ed: Draft bill from supreme court justice in Brazil would alter indigenous rights under the constitution20 March 2025
Indigenous rights in Brazil have been at stake for decades: land invasions, increasing violence and congressional bills against territorial rights enshrined by …
Indigenous communities in Brazil protest proposed constitutional amendment limiting land rights4 November 2024
Bearing images of animals and covered in body paint, hundreds of Indigenous people marched Wednesday in Brazil’s capital, urging Congress to drop a proposed con…