“Courtesan”, “clinging forcibly with kiss and hug”, “slut” and “dishonest”, “messages and photos of the parliamentarian […] Exposed ‘as if she were a showcase, put to the assessment’ “,” right to cut speech “,” cassation “, suggestion in national network that she should be” shredded “and” go washing her husband’s pants and underwear “,” invaded and deprecated political office “, threatens with routine details and that” still quoted the names of the children “. “homicide”.
These are excerpts from repudiation notes made by the Secretariat of DA, available on the house’s website, in reference to cases in the last seven years against policies in Brazil.
The episodes illustrate the persistent gender policy in the country, which records worrying level despite recent advancement on the subject in the legislation, in the interpretation of experts heard by Sheet.
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According to the Women’s Secretariat of the House of Representatives, the theme of gender political violence has mobilized 63 complaints with the agency since 2013, a number considered well below the occurrences by the country that affect policies of the municipal, state and federal spheres.
The reality of high occurrence rates is attested by research such as the entitled “Political and Electoral Violence in Brazil”, of the Earth of Rights and Justice Organizations. According to the study, only between the period from November 1, 2022 to October 27, 2024 there were 274 cases of political violence against women.
The analysis takes into account cases of violence involving positions directly linked to institutional policy, from pre-candidates to party figures. Case collection was done through an internet scan based on keywords, as well as manual search on platforms like Google, social networks and newspapers, organizations point out.
Of the complaints that the Women’s Secretariat of the House of Representatives claims to have already received on the subject, 35 generated notes of repudiation currently available on the House website. These notes point to the use of terms that depreciate women in politics by associating her with sexual activities, such as “courtesan” and “slut”, accompanied by speeches about “hysteria”.
An example is the episode in which the former minister and former governor of Ceará Ciro Gomes (PDT), which the then senator for PT Janaína Farias did “private service” from “harem”. In a statement released the same month, the Women’s Secretariat repudiated the speech and cited other misogynistic episodes involving the politician.
The agency also repudiated occurrence in which federal deputy Bibo Nunes, then in the PSL, attacked federal deputies during the House session in December 2020. At the time, he said he would call congressmen “deputies” and “hysterical deputies” who “do not minimally the President of the Republic.”
The collection of demonstrations records the threat of death made in August 2024 against Deputy Talíria Petrone (PSOL-RJ) and episodes such as when the presenter Carlos Massa, the mouse, said in the national network that Mrs Natália Bonavides (PT-RN) and “go wash her husband’s pants and underwear.”
The texts cite threat of death, racism, offense to trans women, sexual harassment, interruption of speech in the plenary, objectification and exposure on social networks, cassation, hatred speech in the press, office depredation and homicide, the latter in reference to the murder in Magé (RJ) of the pre-candidate Sandra Silva (PSB) in August 2020.
According to the PGE (Attorney General’s Office), its working group on the subject accompanies 320 representations involving violence against women in politics. The representations arrive at the WG at the initiative of the group itself, victims, parties, public agencies or civil society entities.
Analysis of these representations point to occurrence in almost all states of Brazil and different types of violence, such as physics, moral, symbolic, psychological, sexual and economic and structural, which sometimes get together in the same episode.
The cases began to be accounted for mainly from 2021, the year in which Law 14.192/2021 typified political violence against women as a crime. The legal provision has defined the act as “any action, conduct or omission for the purpose of preventing, obstructing or restricting women’s political rights.”
According to prosecutor Raquel Branquinho, who is coordinator of the WG, the law was a milestone for the discussion of the theme in Brazil by bringing a definition for this type of violence.
She states that women “have increasingly understood what gender violence is” and says that society has to closely monitor the matter in order to foster advances in the legislation. “I think there is still a lot of underground, but there is a great visibility from this work built in the justice system,” he says.
Despite the advance with the law that typified the crime and brought changes in the Electoral Code, it is necessary to claim improvements in legislation to support more women, experts say. Currently, Law 14.192/2021 is focused only on candidates and holders of elective terms, as well as presenting other gaps.
“The law does not provide, for example, the gateway to the complaints or the flow to be followed,” says Marlise Matos, coordinator of the Center for Studies and Research on women at UFMG (Federal University of Minas Gerais).
The researcher claims to identify the increase of violence in interviews with congressmen. As important cases of being remembered, he cites the murder of Marielle Franco (PSOL-RJ), the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff (PT) and the attacks on former deputy Joice Hasselmann. Other episodes remembered by experts are oe and.
According to Twig Lopes, PhD in Law and Researcher at the Policy Evaluation Monitoring Laboratory and, linked to the UERJ (State University of Rio de Janeiro), the law needs to be improved to contemplate more women in policy, which may occur with the approval of the new Electoral Code.
“If we can identify today that a series of curses are political violence, it is because we have a law about it,” he says. “But as occurrence, dimensions and manifestations, the exponential increase in cases has been identified, especially in the period before the electoral race.”
How to denounce political violence against women
According to prosecutor Raquel Branquinho, anyone can generally represent with the MPE (Electoral Public Prosecution Service) by identifying an aggression against a woman in political and electoral activity.
The action can be done online on the Electoral Attorney General’s Office. To do so, simply follow the guidelines available at.
