The plenary of the National Council of Justice (CNJ) unanimously approved today (14) the creation of a resolution to define the guidelines for the application of the Protocol for Trials with a Gender Perspective. The norm determines that all judges in the country are trained to apply such guidelines. Compliance with the measure will be monitored by the Monitoring and Training Committee on Trials with a Gender Perspective in the Judiciary, also created by the same resolution. The new collegiate should study and promote the application of the methodology. The protocol on the gender perspective works as a kind of guide, explaining how to apply concepts and reduce the reproduction of stereotypes by male and female judges. Counselor Salise Monteiro Sanchotene, rapporteur for the new resolution, said there is a lot of work to be done. “Many judges have not applied the protocol as they should, still labeling female participation, with gender stereotypes that are not welcome in the process”, he said regarding analyzes made by the CNJ itself on the performance of magistrates across the country. This Tuesday (14), the president of the CNJ, Minister Rosa Weber said that the new resolution is about “enforcing material equality between men and women and, ultimately, complying with the Constitution, nothing more”. Last week, Weber had already defended the methodology. On the occasion, she recalled how the country’s laws and norms were historically designed “in such a way as not to consider women as a relevant political and institutional actor in society”, which is why it is now necessary to apply a “gender lens” on these abstract norms , in order to guarantee de facto equal treatment. “The theoretical approach to concepts, especially that of impartiality, requires us to be attentive to historical and structural inequalities in the social context of vulnerable groups, in the case of women, marked by discriminatory patterns reproduced in institutional and legal designs”, added the minister.
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