Jair Bolsonaro’s government will be questioned at the UN next Monday, and governments, international and national organizations from around the world will spend more than three hours examining what the country’s human rights policy is.
The exercise is held with all UN members, and in the case of Brazil, the exercise was scheduled for the end of 2022.
Diplomats consulted by the report pointed out that foreign governments should condemn the liquidation of institutions, including Funai, in addition to criticizing the shrinking of civic space in Brazil during the Bolsonaro years. Police violence, racism, attacks on the LGBT community, indigenous peoples and the environment also promise to be highlighted.
“It will be a lament for the Bolsonaro government,” an ambassador said on condition of anonymity. “It will be an act of denial against everything the Brazilian government does,” he added.
The Sabbath, known as the Universal Periodic Review, will continue to offer countries advice on how to reinstate human rights policies to the new Brazilian government. Some Europeans have already indicated that they will propose strengthening public institutions that were dismantled during the administration of Damares Alves, who was elected senator and served as Minister of Family, Women and Human Rights until mid-year.
During the review, the Brazilian delegation will be headed by incumbent minister Cristiane Britto, who was with the president when she made her first speech after the election defeat.
The Sabbath system exists so that the world can demand improvements in terms of human rights in a country. Suggestions are made and states are compelled to respond. Four years later, in Brazil’s scrutiny, the process gains another component, with a kind of opportunity for countries that have been humiliated or criticized by Bolsonaro to respond.
The Sabbath will be celebrated with the participation of more than a dozen non-governmental organizations as well as the demands of the states. Many submitted reports to the UN for months that brought data on the situation in the country.
shortcomings
Jair Bolsonaro’s government, while presenting its own report, drew international attention to the fact that it ignored the data on Brazil’s social situation, ignored hunger and made no mention of the number of deaths from covid-19, one of the highest rates. in the world. Nor are there references to police brutality, deforestation, and the purge of the country’s human rights watchdogs.
For observers, the report was turned into an election campaign action with a list of programs and measures adopted by the government, without mentioning the reality of the problems facing the country.
For a network of civil society organisations, social movements and activists, the document “far from reflecting the sad current reality, the fragmentation and decline of human rights that has taken place in the country in recent years”.
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Right at the beginning of the official document, the government claims that the current report only complements the data already submitted by the country in 2019. , delay and failure to protect the population, attacks and liquidation of human rights policies “.
Coletivo RPU – Brasil is the main national coalition made up of 31 entities, networks and collectives of Brazilian civil society. The initiative, coordinated by IDDH, aims to monitor the implementation of UN review recommendations and demand transparency from the Brazilian State to expand social participation. Organizations that are part of the movement include the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil, Article 19, the National Campaign for the Right to Education, the Indigenous Missionary Council, the Conectas, and the National Human Rights Movement.
Although it lists each of the measures taken by the government, the official report ignores the extent of the problems. For the Coletivo RPU, “there are all the themes that need to be uncovered, such as the issue of human rights defenders”. “Given the complexity of the issues, the quality of the information presented is at least inadequate,” he says.
In a parallel document, Coletivo RPU Brasil pointed out that the absolute majority of recommendations made to the government four years ago were either not implemented or were flawed.
Health and covid-19
In the official document, for example, there is no reference to the more than 600 thousand people killed by Kovid-19 and Bolsonaro’s attacks on vaccines. The government document talks about different programs to support the population in case of covid-19. However, for NGOs, such references do not show the reality of the crisis. According to them, the epidemic was “handled by the Federal Executive irresponsibly and in a genocidal manner in relation to certain populations such as quilombolas and indigenous people”.
In describing its priorities, the government stated that “the human rights policies undertaken by the Brazilian State are geared towards guaranteeing the fundamental rights of the most vulnerable populations”.
“Therefore, women, children and adolescents, the elderly, traditional people and communities, and people with disabilities predominate among the publics prioritized by public policies. In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has swept the world for years, such groups aim to alleviate the financial impacts of the pandemic on people and families. She is among the nearly 68 million Brazilians directly and primarily covered under Emergency Aid because heads of households received twice as much financial aid because they are more vulnerable,” he assured.
In this context, the government also stated that it has taken action to purchase vaccines. But he hid the delay in purchasing doses, the initial decision not to be part of international projects, and the insistence on purchasing drugs without proven efficacy.
Concerning more global health problems, the parties warn that Brazil is a “sick country”. “While the public health system is beautiful in words, many gaps, infrastructure problems, trained staff, and the level of funding that existed at the time implantation after the Spending Ceiling (Constitutional Amendment n. 95/2016),” they warn. They also point out that reproductive health rights “are in turmoil, with health professionals rejecting basic humanized services, particularly using prejudice against women and girls.”
Contrary to what Itamaraty insists on presenting to international organizations, and as diplomats in Brazil seek to create parallel realities about the country, organizations point to the crisis in the industry as serious.
“Brazil, in an accelerating decline in the health sector, increases the vulnerability of the poorest segments of the population, but does not limit itself to this, as it affects all social classes, especially the growth of institutional violence against women”, .
source: Noticias
