For the UN, Brazil has been improving in recent years, but in a very slow pace. We must accelerate the pace and that means working a set of public policies.




The United Nations published the Human Development Index (HDI) in 2009. The numbers indicate the well being of people based on income and access to health and education.

The study conducted by the UN states that the Brazilian HDI rose from 0.808 to 0.813. However, in the world ranking fell five places from last year.


 

Created by Mahbub ul Haq in collaboration with the Indian economist Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998, the HDI is intended as a general measure synthetic human development. For Sen, "the best measure should be linked to the opportunities that are offered to the population that make your choices and can fully exercise their citizenship."

Brazil has been improving in recent years, but in a very slow pace, according to the UN. We must accelerate the pace and that means working a set of public policies.

In Brazil, about two thirds of Brazilians can not afford to pay lawyers. This means, on many occasions that the poor necessarily have to give up fundamental rights as they do not have professionals who can make his defense because of the insufficient number of public defenders across the country.

A study implemented by the Ministry of Justice in partnership with the National Association of Public Defenders, concludes that the HDI is higher where there is an active public defender and structured. II The Diagnosis of the Public Defender was carried out under the coordination of political science professor at the University of São Paulo (USP), Maria Teresa Sadek, and indicates that access to legal counsel for full and free is essential to the administration of justice.

According to the study, there are an average of 1.48 public defender for every 100 thousand inhabitants and the states with the lowest level of care are those with the lowest Human Development Index (HDI), which shows that the target audience of Advocacy - the poorest - is not having access to the service. The Ombudsman works in only 39.7% of the counties and judicial sessions.

In November 2009, will be released the result of a new study.