The 5th National Conference on Women’s Policies (5th CNPM) began on the morning of Monday (29) in Brasilia, with the theme More democracy, more equality, more achievements for all.
At the time, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva highlighted measures since 2003, in the first term of the petista, such as the creation of the Secretariat of Policies for Women, directly linked to the Presidency of the Republic, to the latest, such as the approval of the Salary Equality Law, and the creation of the menstrual dignity program.
President Lula also remembered with the regret of approval by the National Impeachment Congress of former President Dilma Rousseff as an attempt to silence women.
“Women suffered a hard set back. The coup against President Dilma Rousseff served not only to overthrow the first woman to govern this country. It was also the attempt to shut up millions of female voices, because authoritarianism not only hates. He fears women.”
The Minister of Women, Marcia Lopes, recalled that from the edition of the previous CNPM, from 2016, to the present day, the country has been through moments of setback. “Since the last conference, in 2016, we have faced years of setbacks, but we resisted. And from this resistance has sprung even more strength bringing us to the 5th National Conference on Policies for Women: a space for reunion, reconstruction and affirmation that nothing can stop the organized presence of women.”
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Sovereign Brazil
In a speech by video conferencing, Dilma Rousseff, who is currently re -elected president of the Novo Development Bank, known as Banco do Brics, recalled that the opening of the 4th National Conference on Women’s Policies was her last official commitment before she had to leave Brazil’s command in May 2016.
“This reunion, almost ten years later, has an even greater strength because we have overcome a period of setbacks of political violence and attack on democratic achievements. I remember that the opening of the fourth conference was my last official commitment before the profoundly unfair coup against our democracy, but history has shown that resisting is worth it.”
The former president stressed that the fight requires the full participation of women and valued their performance. “Brazilian women, in their diversity, move the economy, support democracy and ensure that social achievements come to each family. Recognizing this is to say that gender equality is a condition for Brazil to be fair, strong and truly sovereign.”
As a message to the participants conference, Dilma wished that mobilization trace guidelines capable of transforming the lives of Brazilian women.
“No violence is tolerable, no right can be removed. Only with collectively built policies can we face inequalities, machismo, misogyny, racism and all forms of oppression,” said Dilma Rousseff.
Social movements
Noting that the conference is the result of many struggles of many women, the representative of the march of indigenous women, Josykaigang, also recalled that the last march of women occurred under the leadership of the first president of the Republic Woman.
This was also revisited in the speech of the representative of the National Council for Women’s Rights (CNDM), Iayalorixá Sandrali Bueno. She points out that the new edition of the conference is the result of a democratic construction made possible by the holding of free, regional, state and municipal conferences, since April this year.
“We did not come here suddenly. We carried the echo of crowded assemblies, of conversation wheels full of wisdom, plenary sessions where the word circulated as blessing, commitment and responsibility.”
5th CNPM
The 5th National Conference on Policies for Women will be held in Brasilia until Wednesday (October 1st). Social and political leaders discuss the collective construction of public policies aimed at women.
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