Brasilia: Women from all over Brazil will stage demonstrations today in more than 30 cities in at least 15 states and the Federal District against the government of President Jair Bolsonaro, on the occasion of their international day, Prensa Latina publishes.
The Bolsonaro Executive “has made people’s lives even more difficult, mainly affecting working-class women,” groups linked to the issue say.
They communicated that landless women and scientists also prepare debates and actions on the occasion of the global movement for equality.
According to the Brasil de Fato portal, feminist entities and groups intend to occupy the streets and social networks to shout “For the lives of women” and “Bolsonaro never again!”
On the agenda, the women will also seek “a Brazil without machismo, without racism and without hunger.” Such a national motto summarizes the various battles waged by Brazilian women and which opens the first social struggles of the year.
According to the site, in December, groups of the so-called weaker sex closed the Bolsonaro Out days, by specifically exposing the situation of this segment of the population that considers the Federal Government a “direct threat to the lives of women.”
However, this Tuesday’s act marks a return to the streets on Women’s Day, after last year’s virtual mobilization due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
The so-called National Women’s Articulation Bolsonaro Never Again presented a manifesto of entities, in which it denounces the deepening of the economic crisis in Brazil and the world, added to the government’s policy of hunger, unemployment and death.
The National Household Survey revealed that the vacancy rate among women was 13.9 percent in the fourth quarter of 2021, while for men it was nine.
In addition, according to a bulletin from the Covid-19 Observatory, of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz), published in 2021, Brazil is the country with the highest number of maternal deaths caused by the pathogen.
In May of that year, the maternal mortality rate was 7.2 percent, more than double that of the entire nation at the time (2.8).
Fiocruz also warns that they were the ones who suffered the most damage to their mental health during the pandemic.
The Brazilian Union of Women and the Brazilian Confederation of Women warn that gender is the main victim of violence, structural racism, the health and economic crisis, as well as other impacts of policies adopted by the far-right administration of the president.
