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Para 50) Both policies prioritize rural women’s participation due to their important role in self-consumption production and family nourishment. It is also a means for self-sufficiency and empowerment of women, contributing, over the years, to the mitigation of all kinds of violence against these women.
Para 81) Regarding domestic labor that amounts to slavery, the first rescue of a domestic worker took place in 2017. Afterwards, there were 26 further rescues until December 2021. Data from 2017 up to June 2021 indicate that 73% of the rescues took place in urban households. Moreover, 80% of rescued workers were women, 72% of them were black, 11% white, 11% yellow and 6% indigenous.
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Para 16) Renata Juliana Faé Barp (RJFB) stated that social inequality in Brazil was strongly linked to gender and race, with Afro-Brazilian women being the most affected. … IACHR observed that Brazil faced structural challenges to overcome historical discrimination that had an exacerbated impact on Afro descent persons, women, …
Para 22) JS29 and JS39 noted that the incarceration of women continued to grow exponentially, in particular of Afro-Brazilian women.
Para 59) … Several submissions highlighted the upsurge in domestic and sexual violence against women in recent years, in particular poor, trans and Afro-descent women, aggravated by the Covid19 pandemic.
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