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National Report
Para 77) Currently, a Training Course on Work Discrimination is being developed and the updated legislation on the subject is being consolidated. Furthermore, a study is underway on the subject of work discrimination on account of age, with gender and race intersections being considered.
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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National Report
Stakeholder Summary
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 54) JS14 denounced that indigenous people suffered violations to their cultural rights as a result of mining, logging, land grabbing and deforestation with a particular impact on women and children.
Para 57) … Christian Aid highlighted Brumadinho’s impact on women’s right to water, a life free of violence and discrimination, to a decent work and income and to health.
Para 58) The Anglican Consultative Council (ACC) stated that women’s rights, especially sexual and reproductive rights, had been severely attacked. Several submissions denounced a budget reduction in public policies to promote women’s rights in 2021. Many submissions reported on the government’s failure guaranteeing women’s health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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UN Compilation
UN Compilation
Para 52) On the basis of information from Instituto de Estudos Socioeconômicos, the United Nations country team indicated that there had been a massive reduction in the budget of the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights in 2021, accompanied by a reduction of 51.8 per cent in policies for women.