Paulo Pedroso
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Paulo Pedroso is a former Secretary of State and Minister for Labor and Training of Portugal
Portugal
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 from 1999 to 2001, professor, politician and member of the Portuguese Parliament.

Pedroso graduated from ISCTE (Lisbon) and was professor at the same institution. Former Secretary of State and Minister for Labor and Training of Portugal
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

 from 1999 to 2001, professor, politician and member of the Portuguese Parliament, he promoted a guarantee minimum income policy for unemployed Portuguese in order to combat poverty - Rendimento Mínimo Garantido.

Pedroso involvement in what became known as the Casa Pia child sexual abuse scandal
Casa Pia child sexual abuse scandal
The Casa Pia child sexual abuse scandal was a case of child sexual abuses involving a number of children and employees at Casa Pia, a Portuguese state-run institution for the education and support of poor children and under-age orphans...

, was dropped. Paulo Pedroso requested a compensation (600,000 euro
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) from the Portuguese Republic on the grounds that his arrest was illegal and destroyed his political career. In September 2008, a Portuguese court ordered the state to pay 100,000 euros ($140,000) to the ex-minister Paulo Pedroso, on the grounds that he was wrongly detained on paedophilia charges. Pedroso returned to the Portuguese Parliament shortly after, as member of his party - Partido Socialista
Socialist Party (Portugal)
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