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The Minister of Environment and Climate Change, Acreana Marina Silva, who is also federal deputy licensed by the São Paulo Network (SP), paused the activities of her ministry to dedicate herself to a no less noble cause: the fight against domestic violence and protection women in public office and politics.
Marina Silva joins Manuela D’Avila and Aurea Carolina in the defense of women in politics. Photo: Reproduction
Alongside former federal deputies Manuela D’Avila (RS) and Áurea Carolina (MG), who coordinate a work to promote conversations about political violence that suffer women in the exercise of her mandates, the minister also wants to discuss all the forms of violence and discrimination against women and minorities.
Marina Silva never hid from anyone who was a victim of domestic – at least psychological – violence in her first marriage.
The information about the meeting of the Acrean Minister with the former federal departments was given on his social networks by sociologist Jane Maria Vilas Boas, advisor to the Acreana.
Aurea Carolina, Manuela D’Avila’s partner in confronting violence against women, is a political scientist and is part of a new generation of black women who entered politics at the same time as Marielle Franco, PSOL councilor murdered in Rio January 2018.
Belo Horizonte’s most voted most voted councilwoman in 2016 and a woman most voted for the House of Representatives for Minas Gerais in 2018, she opened ways for other female leaders to go into politics, but paid an expensive price: she received racist, chauvinist and racist attacks from hatred.
The former parliamentarian-she chose not to try to reelection in 2022-often talks about conversation wheels with them discussing the issue of the experience of having been one of the few black women to occupy a chair at the National Congress. It also reports cases of harassment and attempts at silencing.
The conversation is the first in a series held for the projects project with black women who occupy or have held public office in Brazil. The parliamentarians denounce the various violence – direct and veiled – who have suffered and still suffer during political exercise, both because they are women and because they are black in spaces historically occupied by white men.
Manuela d’Avila is a journalist and writer, born in Porto Alegre (RS), at the age of 41, was a federal deputy for Rio Grande do Sul from 2007 to 2015, state deputy from 2015 to 2019 and candidate for vice president of Republic in the 2018 election. He was also a councilwoman by Porto Alegre and ran for the city hall of Rio Grande do Sul three times.
The first time in 2008, it was in third place. In the second attempt in 2012, he was in second place, being defeated in the first round by José Fortunati. In the third, in 2020, he was defeated in the second round by Sebastião Melo.
In 2014, he was elected state deputy with the largest vote for office that year. In 2017, he was nominated by his party as a presidential candidate for the 2018 election. However, he gave up his candidacy and was chosen by Fernando Haddad of the Workers Party as his vice president.
In the second round, the plate was defeated by Jair Bolsonaro and Hamilton Mourão. In October 2024, he announced that he was “without a party,” in a debate organized by the Liberto Knowledge Institute and turned to the cause of women facing misogyny and discrimination in politics.
In 2011, as a deputy, she reported the Youth Statute, legislation that guarantees rights and duties to young Brazilians. In the bylaws, issues considered controversial, such as equality in sexual orientation, were included.
The initiative was approved in the House of Representatives on October 5, 2011 and the Federal Senate on February 15 and 2012.
In December 2019, Manuela launched the Common Movement, an initiative to increase the engagement of people with politics, including women.
Its action now, along with Áurea Carolina, with the support of Marina Silva, seeks to transform policy into an environment without hostility compared to women.
