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The President of the Republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, made a statement this Saturday night (7), on national radio and television, in honor of International Women’s Day, celebrated on March 8. In his speech, the president highlighted the urgency in combating femicide, a crime that broke a record and reached an average of four women murdered per day in 2025.
“Every six hours, a man kills a woman in Brazil. Each femicide is the result of a sum of daily, silent, naturalized violence. The overwhelming majority of these attacks happen at home, in an environment that should be protective”, he said.
Lula questioned the type of future a country where women suffer such violence could have and recalled the actions recently announced by the government that make up the National Pact – Brazil against Feminicide. The initiative involves the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary. “To begin with, a joint effort by the Ministry of Justice, in partnership with state governments, to arrest more than 2,000 aggressors of women who cannot and will not remain free. And I’m warning you: other operations will come.”
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He then stated: “Violence against women is not a private issue where no one takes the plunge. It is a crime. And we will, yes, take the plunge.” In his speech, Lula also brought up some initiatives already in practice that, he highlighted, “benefit families, especially women.” Among these programs are Pé-de-Meia, Gás do Povo, zero income tax for those earning up to R$5,000 and the free sanitary pad distribution program.
6×1 Scale The president also spoke about the importance of putting an end to the 6×1 work schedule, when you work six days with just one rest. Lula emphasized how this scale especially harms women who often work double shifts.
“We need to move towards the end of the 6×1 scale, which forces people to work six days a week and have just one day off. It’s time to put an end to this, as it will mean more time with family, more time to study, rest and live. This is an agenda for Brazilian women.”
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The end of the 6×1 scale has been defended by the government in the National Congress and has worked, with its parliamentary base, to advance the issue in the Chamber and Senate.
ECA DigitalThe president also recalled that the Digital Statute of Children and Adolescents, the ECA Digital, will come into force soon, on March 17th. And he stated that the government will announce new measures to combat online harassment in March.
“The Brazil we want is not a country where women just survive. It is a country where they can live in safety, with freedom to have fun, work, undertake and prosper.”
ECA Digital obliges digital platforms to take measures to prevent the risk of children and adolescents accessing illegal content or content considered inappropriate for these age groups, such as sexual exploitation and abuse, physical violence, intimidation, harassment, promotion and marketing of gambling, predatory and misleading advertising practices, among other crimes.
The decree that will regulate ECA Digital is being jointly produced between the Ministry of Justice, the Civil House, the Ministry of Human Rights and Citizenship, the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services and the Communication Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic.
