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The future Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights, Damares Alves, today received in Brasilia representatives of 33 LGBTI organizations (bads, gays, bibaduals, transbaduals, transbaduals) and interbad) to discuss the agenda of the movement in the next government. The meeting was articulated by the National LGBTI + Alliance.
The group presents the What We Want document of the Brazilian State, which contains the main claims that are the subject of a consensus between the entities for the period from 2019 to 2022. The entities ask to recognize and appreciate the existence of different family compositions, including:
According to Toni Reis, president of the National Alliance LBGTI +, the meeting was "extremely productive" and the committed to respect the acquired rights and to work for a campaign against the violence that affects this population in Brazil. "In the framework of the Federal Constitution and international conventions, it was very clear that acquired rights will be respected. [disse que] will work with campaigns against violence, against discrimination and works hard for the employability of trans people. , the most discriminated against in our community, "he said. According to a poll released earlier this year, a total of 445 LGBTI people were murdered in the country in 2017 for homophobic crimes.
Dialogue
Announced earlier this month as future minister of the Bolsonaro government, Damares Alves is a lawyer, pastor and advisor to Senator Magno Malta (PR-ES), one of the leading evangelical leaders of the National Congress. In the first interview when his appointment was confirmed, Damares said the problem of LGBT people was a delicate one, as it created "a false war" of this population with Christians and promised a dialogue. "This war between Christians and LGBT does not exist."
At the time, the future minister promised that his portfolio would work against violence due to prejudice based on badual orientation. "If it is necessary, I will be in the street with transvestites, at the door of the school with children discriminated against because of their badual orientation."
Asked if the movement is expecting progress in the LGBTI rights agenda, Toni Reis said the most important thing was to make sure it did not happen. there is no set back of this agenda for the next few years. "He has won a conservative agenda and we must speak," he said, guaranteeing that the movement would seek out other Bolsonaro government ministers and express it to Congress in order to preserve acquired rights. [o poder]
Claims
Among the demands of the signatory organizations of the document What We Want from the Brazilian State, it is worth mentioning the creation of a specific council for the human rights issues of the LGBTI population , with a budget; the strengthening of the whistleblowing service Disk 100, with a specific module for the care of LGBTI victims; maintaining and strengthening the National Council for Combating Discrimination and Promoting the Rights of Lesbian, Gay, Bibadual, Transvestite and Transgender People (CNCD / LGBT); the holding of the 4th National Conference on Public Policies and Human Rights of LGBT (scheduled for November 2019); the pursuit of the National Pact to deal with LGBT-POV violence and the recognition and appreciation of the existence of various family compositions, including homotransfuse families, guaranteeing them access to the same social policies than traditional families.
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