The African slave trade and its remedy

Esta edição é revista e aumentada, com mais do dobro de páginas da edição primitiva, de 1839, que continha 240 páginas. Buxton, presidente da Sociedade para a Extinção do Tráfico de Escravos, apresenta um detalhadíssimo estudo do comércio de negros, desde a África Central e ambas as costas do Continente, até o Brasil, os Estados Unidos, Cuba, etc. Há estimativas de mortalidade em todos os estágios do cativeiro. A maior parte das referências são sobre Cuba e o Brasil. É um clássico pioneiro dos estudos sobre escravidão.

Rights of Portugal, in reference to Great Britain and the question of the slave trade, or, the manifesto and protest of the weak, against the ingratitude, oppression, and violence of the strong ...

Enquanto os políticos e diplomatas polemizavam e agiam, Thomas Buxton publicava, depois de viajar ao Brasil e ao Caribe, o mais completo levantamento sobre o tráfico negreiro jamais feito até então.

The Politics of Internet Regulation in Brazil : dynamics, factors, and actors in broadband policy

In May 2010, Brazil joined the roll of nations with a National Broadband Plan. The Decree nº 7,175/2010 had implemented a program that aimed to offer 30 million permanent broadband accesses until 2014 and established its main goals, such as accelerating economic and social development, promoting digital inclusion, reducing social and regional inequalities, promoting a generation of employment and income, and expanding electronic government services. However, the broadband access in Brazil is limited, expensive, and centralized in the main urban centres. Despite the fast growth in the past years due to mobile internet access, the market is still concentrated in the local incumbent operators that currently provide mobile services, landline services and Paid-TV services, resulting in a high level of market verticalization. The following dissertation investigates the constraint of broadband access development, the dynamics, the actors, and the factors that have delayed the roll-out of broadband services in Brazil. The study also promotes reflections about the challenge posed by the media, by costumers associations and by public opinion as critical observers of the policy making process. This research examines on the political influence towards regulation to determine the way policy will benefit interest groups. Many interviews have been conducted in order to understand the forces which have been acting in the telecommunications in Brazil after privatization, in 1998. This study aims to provide a better understanding of telecommunications regulatory process in Brazil, in order to help the country finding an adequate policy which can lead to the implementation of a broadband roll-out. The universal broadband access is the only way to benefit the whole society in Brazil with a satisfactory level of education and create more jobs and economic development regarding the plenty use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT).

Considerações relativas à ratificação do tratado sobre comércio de armas : (arms trade treaty - ATT)

Descreve a origem, a justificativa e a tramitação do Tratado sobre Comércio de Armas no âmbito internacional, na tentativa de impedir a transferência ilegal de armas e munições entre países, fato que possibilita que países menos escrupulosos e traficantes de armas atuem ilicitamente, chegando a usuários não autorizados, incluindo a perpetração em atos terroristas.