The National Council of Justice (CNJ) is preparing a concentrated effort to issue civil registration to more than 2.7 million people who do not have any documents, according to information from the 2022 Census. mutirão in all units of the federation. The priority will be for homeless people, who depend on a document to have access to basic rights, such as assistance programs, enrollment in public schools and assistance in the Unified Health System (SUS). The First National Civil Registration Week campaign – Register! it is part of the Program to Combat Civil Under-Registration and Expand Access to Basic Documentation by Vulnerable People, created this year by the National Justice Department, one of the branches of the CNJ. Other socially vulnerable populations are also targeted by the initiative, such as indigenous peoples, riverside dwellers, refugees and prison populations. The mutirão must be repeated at least once a year. Priority public According to a survey by the Institute of Economic and Applied Research (Ipea), the homeless population in Brazil increased by 211% in 2022 compared to 2021. Data show that there are more than 230,000 people in this condition in the country. In order for the initiative to reach this target audience, the CNJ has mobilized institutions and people who already work with this theme, such as Father Júlio Lancelotti, who provides assistance to the homeless population of São Paulo. According to the CNJ, the task force will have the support of the National Association of Natural Person Registrars (Arpen-Brasil) and other associations of civil registrars to make the birth certificate viable. Public defenders and the Public Ministry are also partners in the initiative, helping with the presence of registrars in public squares, for example. The General Inspectorates of the courts of each state will be in charge of supervising and presenting the results of the task force.
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