The National Council of Justice (CNJ) began today (8) a week of concentrated effort to try to reduce the number of Brazilians who have never had any documents, a contingent of 2.7 million people, according to information from the 2022 Census carried out by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE). Until next Friday (12), the body promotes the task force in all units of the federation. Priority will be given to homeless people, who depend on civil documentation to access basic rights, such as assistance programs, enrollment in public schools and assistance in the Unified Health System (SUS). The “1st National Civil Registry Week – Register!” it is part of the Program to Combat Civil Sub-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, says the provision that created the week. The focus, however, should be given to the registration of homeless people, a group that increased by 211% between 2012 and 2022, according to a survey by the Institute of Economic and Applied Research (Ipea). According to the study, there are more than 230,000 people in Brazil with this condition. “What we see now, with the pandemic, is that there was an increase in the homeless population, there was an urgent need for social benefits. We entered into an agreement with the ministries of Social Development and Labor, so that, after registering and right there on the spot, they can be sent for training and for a future job”, said Justice Luís Felipe Salomão, of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ), current National Inspector. 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 and is a spokesman for the national campaign. 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 enable the birth certificate of the socially and economically unprotected population. 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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