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30/07/2012
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The Commission on Human and Minority Rights will discuss how Brazilian law can protect children from consumerism. On August 9 (Thursday), will be held the 1st Seminar Free Childhood Consumerism, from 9 am in the 9th Plenary. The event will last until late afternoon.
Parliamentarians, government officials and academics will discuss topics such as the special protection of childhood and full forward appeals to the consumer, food advertising directed at children and child advertising and freedom of expression.
Check the schedule and the guests of the seminar:
Content and quality
The committee chairman, Mr Domingos Dutra (PT-MA), underscores the relevance of the problem. "Greed has no limit on capital and has used the media and social networks to advertise a wide variety of products, influencing children. We now live in an urban country, where patterns of families has changed, where the mother and father work out, children are nailed on television, young people are glued to the computer, social networking, "says the congressman.
In the evaluation of Domingos Dutra, we must reflect on the content and quality of advertising. "And that should be given so that children and adolescents are not clogged with advertisements geared just for unlimited consumerism, and often with dire consequences in family and social environment, from the search of products that do not always are useful for the body to the mind. "
Prohibition of advertising
Since 2001, the Board discussed a bill (PL 5921/01) that would prohibit the advertising of children's products. The matter is currently before the Commission of Science and Technology, Communication and Computing. The proposal rapporteur, Mr Salvador Zimbaldi (PDT-SP), shall submit the opinion of him in August.
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