Isabel Almeida Rodrigues was elected the new President of the Commission for Equality and Against Racial Discrimination after being heard by the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms and Guarantees on Tuesday, June 18.
Born in Horta, Faial Island, Isabel Almeida Rodrigues takes on the challenge with “great enthusiasm” and is “aware of the responsibility it entails” after serving for around two years as Secretary of State for Equality and Migration.
The Committee on Constitutional Affairs, Rights, Freedoms, and Guarantees is an independent administrative body endowed with authority. It works with the National Assembly and has the autonomous power to prevent, prohibit, and combat discrimination based on racial and ethnic origin, color, nationality, ancestry, and territory of origin.
Isabel Almeida Rodrigues has a law degree from the University of Lisbon, a postgraduate degree in Child Protection from the Family Law Center of the Faculty of Law of the University of Coimbra, and a degree in Social Sciences from the University of the Azores.
She was a member of the Portuguese Parliament in the 14th and 15th legislatures. She chaired the Subcommittee on Reintegration and Prison Affairs.
She was President of the Azores Commission for Children between November 2016 and October 2019.
She was Assistant Regional Secretary of the Presidency for Parliamentary Affairs in the XI Government of the Autonomous Region of the Azores between July 2014 and October 2016.
She was a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Autonomous Region of the Azores from November 2008 to June 2014 and rapporteur of the Standing Committee on Parliamentary Affairs, Environment, and Labor.
She was a Ponta Delgada Municipal Assembly member from November 2005 to July 2014.
Between October 2004 and November 2008, she was a member of the Executive Committee of the European Financial Instrument’s Old Ghettos New Centralities Project.

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