UN rapporteurs call on Lula to revoke Bolsonaro and Damares' measures and "offer legal means for pregnancy termination."
Rapporteurs call on the Brazilian government to "repeal the parental alienation law" and restore "effective access for women and girls to sexual and reproductive rights."
247 - In a statement issued this Friday (4), United Nations (UN) rapporteurs call for Brazil's president-elect, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT), to revoke measures adopted by the government of Jair Bolsonaro (PL) and his Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights, the now senator-elect Damares Alves (Republicanos-DF).
According to Jamil Chade, from UOLThey urge Lula to "repeal the parental alienation law" and restore "effective access for women and girls to sexual and reproductive rights." The experts also ask that the new government "offer effective legal means for pregnancy termination," guaranteeing abortion in cases permitted by Brazilian law.
Another request is for Lula to 'reverse the cuts in the Federal State budget for activities and programs dedicated to ending violence against women' and 'double the efforts to prevent violence against women and girls, particularly those who have been exposed to violence for reasons such as being politically active, defending human rights, being women and indigenous, Afro-Brazilian, migrant or transgender'.
"The text comes at a time of criticism from the UN regarding the human rights policies of the Bolsonaro government. In the Ministry of Human Rights, led by Damares Alves for years, measures were taken regarding women's rights that, in the opinion of experts, made it more difficult to access abortion legally provided for by the Brazilian Constitution. The deep cuts in various areas of protection for women also drew attention," explains the report.
The document is signed by the UN Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem; the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health, Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng; the Coordinator-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Discrimination against Women and Girls, Dr. Dorothy Estrada-Tanck; and the UN Independent Expert on protection against violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, Dr. Victor Madrigal.
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