In the area of Human Rights, the final report by the transition team for the third government of President-elect Luís Inácio Lula da Silva pointed to the dismantling of several policies and heavy budget cuts in programs in the area. According to the analysis of the sectorial work groups, the social participation structures had their role emptied or were extinguished during the government of President Jair Bolsonaro. The disarticulation reached, according to the transitional cabinet, 12 collegiate bodies that underwent changes that precarious or hindered the effective participation of civil society. The Intersectoral Commission to Combat Sexual Violence against Children and Adolescents, the National Council for Food and Nutritional Security and the National Commission for the Goals of Sustainable Development were also abolished. The working groups highlighted, in the report presented this Thursday (22), that the recreation of these mechanisms, as well as the resumption of the activities of the bodies that had precarious or misconfigured activities, is fundamental for the rearticulation of policies in the area of rights humans. Budget cuts The analysis draws attention to the need to resume investments in protecting vulnerable populations. In 2015, policies in favor of women, human rights and the fight against racism received, according to the transition cabinet, the equivalent of R$ 1.1 billion in updated values. In 2022, the budget commitment for these areas was BRL 238 million, according to what was verified by the group. In addition to the reduction in available resources, the data show that part of the money was not even applied. “The portfolio’s budgetary-financial scenario indicates the impracticability of the human rights policy, if there is no budgetary recomposition from 2023”, emphasizes the cabinet’s report. Among the policies hampered by the lack of money is the fight against slave labor. According to the diagnosis, due to the cuts, labor inspectors found it difficult to carry out their activities, even making it impossible to produce data on cases of work analogous to slavery in the most remote parts of the country. In the case of policies for children and adolescents, the working group points to a 96.7% reduction in the volume of resources invested. According to the report by the area’s working group, in 2009, R$ 498.2 million were spent on promoting and defending the rights of children and adolescents, in amounts updated by the Extended National Consumer Price Index (IPCA). In 2018, resources dropped to BRL 140 million and, in 2022, they were BRL 35 million. Indigenous Lands and Quilombolas The Cabinet report points out that there was a complete stoppage in the processes for the demarcation of indigenous lands in the country. These territories, points out the document, have also suffered from the increase in invasions by miners, loggers, cattle ranchers, fishermen and illegal hunters. In the Yanomami Indigenous Land, located in the states of Roraima and Amazonas, where 28,100 indigenous people live in 371 communities, a 46% increase in illegal mining activities was recorded in 2021. In addition, according to the analysis, the National Indian Foundation (Funai) suffered disorganization of administrative activities and “drastic budget reduction”. According to the office, people with no experience with indigenous issues or contrary to the interests of traditional peoples were appointed to positions at the foundation. Palmares Foundation Land regulation in quilombola territories was also, according to the report, paralyzed in recent years. The sector suffered from a 93% decrease in the budget allocated to policies to promote racial equality, compared to the resources made available in 2015. The Palmares Cultural Foundation also suffered, according to the report, a process of attempted “destruction”, with maneuvers that sought to make the body break with the institutional mission of promoting Afro-Brazilian cultural and social values. It is the orientation of the transition office that the resolution of the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (Incra) that paralyzed the demarcation of quilombola territories and the ordinance of the Palmares Foundation that hindered the procedures for recognizing these communities be revoked. Risk to women The distortion of human rights policies begins, according to the report, in the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights itself, which “based its action on the neglect of vulnerable populations, on the denial of the existence of serious violations of rights, and in the dismantling of hard-won public policies”. Among the programs that lost functionality, the transition office cites the telephone services Dial 100 and Dial 180, aimed at receiving complaints of human rights violations and violence against women, respectively. Both were, according to the document, distorted and had precarious functioning. Regarding the policies that negatively affected the lives of the female population, the report points to the easing of firearms control. More than 400,000 weapons were registered during the last government, 96% of which are in the name of men. “When we consider that more than half of cases of violence against women are committed by partners, ex-partners, parents or stepfathers and within the home, we can say that this raises both the degree of oppression, silencing and repression against women. ”, emphasizes the document. The transitional cabinet recommended the repeal of eight presidential decrees that facilitated access to firearms and the revision of an interministerial decree that also deals with the subject.
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