Quilombola women will gather in Brasília starting next Wednesday (14th) to discuss public policies and issues relevant to quality of life and the fight against racial, social and gender inequalities. The 2nd National Meeting of Quilombola Women will be held until June 18 in the federal capital, when a document will be released based on the proposals presented in the discussions. The event is organized by the Coletivo de Mulheres Quilombolas, of the National Coordination of Articulation of Black Rural Quilombola Communities (Conaq), and around 300 leaders from quilombola communities from all over the country and Latin America are expected. Under the theme Resist to Exist, the program includes debates on income, bioeconomy, environmental racism, food, access to education, communication and human rights, in addition to workshops, cultural activities and handicrafts by quilombola women. “Of the women murdered in Brazil in 2019, 66% were black. The relative risk of a black woman being a victim of homicide is 1.7 times greater than that of a non-black woman. In other words, for every non-black woman killed, almost two black women die,” reported Conaq, citing data from the Atlas of Violence. For this reason, the entity justifies the protagonism of black women in the production and promotion of projects that carry peasant feminist and anti-racist agendas. “There is no way to think about quilombola territory without thinking about women”, observes Givania Maria, educator and member of Conaq’s National Education Collective. The first meeting was held in 2014. The second would take place in 2020, but was canceled due to the covid-19 pandemic. “We didn’t expect it to take so long to make an assessment, a political reading about the perspective of quilombola women in the scenario we are experiencing. There were six years of darkness, adding two years of the coup plus the government [Jair] Bolsonaro who backtracked on all social policies, especially those on gender and race,” said Givania to Agência Brasil. “The meeting coincides with the beginning of a new government in which we have the perspective that things will not be easy, but at least we will not have the government institution working to further increase the violation of the right of quilombola women”, added the educator, citing that, at the opening of the event, state ministers, parliamentarians and other authorities are expected. The 2nd National Meeting of Quilombola Women will be held at the headquarters of the National Confederation of Agricultural Workers (Contag), in Brasília.
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