Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

COMMUNITY OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKING COUNTRIES (CPLP)

COMMUNITY OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKING COUNTRIES (CPLP) By The Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (CPLP) is an international organisation created on 17 July of 1996, in Lisbon (Portugal), by a Constitutive Declaration. The CPLP has 8 member states worldwide. In addition to the five African members, Portugal, Brazil and East Timor are members. Around 200 million people worldwide speak Portuguese. OBJECTIVES The CPLP is a multidimensional and geographically diversified forum linking the Portuguese- speaking countries, based on cultural ties, identified by a common language, historic link and common heritage. Its guiding principles include the sovereign equality of member states, supremacy of peace, democracy, the rule of law, respect for human rights, social justice, and promotion of development. Its general objectives consists of concerted action between its member states at both political and diplomatic level in its international relations, particularly with the aim of asserting its presence in the international fora. It also promotes co-operation, particularly in the economic, social, cultural, legal, technical and scientific spheres. The implementation of projects designed to promote and disseminate the Portuguese language is another area of focus of the CPLP. As a linguistic Community, the CPLP goes much further than the governments of its member states since it also involves the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Human Rights Law in Africa Online Brill

COMMUNITY OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKING COUNTRIES (CPLP)

Download PDF
2 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/brill/community-of-portuguese-speaking-countries-cplp-wDR9QBwoNv

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Brill
Copyright
Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1385-3716
eISSN
2211-6060
DOI
10.1163/221160604X00666
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

By The Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (CPLP) is an international organisation created on 17 July of 1996, in Lisbon (Portugal), by a Constitutive Declaration. The CPLP has 8 member states worldwide. In addition to the five African members, Portugal, Brazil and East Timor are members. Around 200 million people worldwide speak Portuguese. OBJECTIVES The CPLP is a multidimensional and geographically diversified forum linking the Portuguese- speaking countries, based on cultural ties, identified by a common language, historic link and common heritage. Its guiding principles include the sovereign equality of member states, supremacy of peace, democracy, the rule of law, respect for human rights, social justice, and promotion of development. Its general objectives consists of concerted action between its member states at both political and diplomatic level in its international relations, particularly with the aim of asserting its presence in the international fora. It also promotes co-operation, particularly in the economic, social, cultural, legal, technical and scientific spheres. The implementation of projects designed to promote and disseminate the Portuguese language is another area of focus of the CPLP. As a linguistic Community, the CPLP goes much further than the governments of its member states since it also involves the

Journal

Human Rights Law in Africa Online – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2004

There are no references for this article.