Jair Bolsonaro’s government is not disseminating the final report on the human rights situation in the country, which the Executive had to prepare, which was submitted to the UN this week.
At the end of November, Brazil is going through a Sabbath of human rights policies, and on this occasion, governments and activists from around the world will be able to question and criticize the positions of Brazilian authorities.
However, for such an application, the government is obliged to present its own version of what has been done in terms of human rights in the country. During Michel Temer’s government, the same report was communicated to civil society the day the authorities presented the data to the UN.
When Itamaraty was questioned, “The Brazilian government has submitted the report to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva within the stipulated time and will make this Office public in the coming weeks, according to the schedule prescribed by the procedure.”
The version given to civil society was that the government would wait a few weeks before publishing the report to await any comment from the UN.
The Ministry of Family, Women and Human Rights, which is legally responsible for preparing the report, said it only forwarded the document to Itamaraty.
Official information at the UN is that the report will be translated into official languages and formatted to fit the standard model. The expectation is that the report will be published on the official pages of the United Nations one month before Saturday.
However, nothing can prevent the government from circulating the report among civil society actors and the press, at its own discretion, including for transparency reasons.
Preliminary government report ignores social crisis and criticizes UN
In May, the government even circulated a preliminary version of the report for public comment. But human rights activists point out that without seeing the final government version, there is no way to know whether this initial document has been retained or modified.
The government insisted on emphasizing the role of Emergency Aid in the first version of the report, without specifying the social crisis or the number of hungry people that exploded.
“The human rights policies undertaken by the Brazilian State were geared towards securing the basic rights of the most vulnerable populations. Therefore, women, children and adolescents, the elderly, traditional peoples and communities and the disabled are particularly prominent as they serve the public,” he noted.
“In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic that has devastated the world over the past two and a half years, these audiences are directly and primarily among the approximately 68 million Brazilians in Emergency Aid. families, as heads of families, receive double the financial aid, respecting their greater vulnerability. they got it,” he said.
The government also ignored the delay in purchasing the vaccine and even Bolsonaro’s criticism of the immunizer. In the report, the Executive simply states that “in February 2022, 85% of the population was fully vaccinated.”
In this context, it should be clarified that more than 380 million doses of vaccines are distributed in our country, with priority given to the most vulnerable groups, including indigenous peoples, the majority of whom are already fully vaccinated.
What still baffled NGOs was the Brazilian government’s decision to devote a significant portion of the document to criticism of the UN.
“Despite the commitment of the Federal Executive during Cycle 3, several UPR-related initiatives have been developed, either in the formulation of these initiatives or in later stages,” he said.
The document also complained that although the Executive’s mandate is to execute the report, the UN “has not been contacted for capacity building actions, support or technical assistance, while other forces and other actors have been strengthened and prioritized in the process”. without the involvement of the Federal Government”.
“What we observed during cycle 3 was that the other powers often did not even position themselves as a State, and in this confusing distribution of roles, the UN’s decision to prioritize other institutional actors to the detriment of the Federal Government. He criticized the government, saying that they are “demanding” the Executive, as if he were responsible.
“For the 4th cycle, we note the expectation that the UN will reposition its activities in the country on greater coordination with the Executive Power on capacity building, technical assistance and support, without abandoning the advances already made with other powers (Legislature and Judiciary),” he added.
source: Noticias
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