{"id":20195,"date":"2020-02-24T11:27:43","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T11:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&p=20195"},"modified":"2021-04-05T12:17:49","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T12:17:49","slug":"minister-defends-brazils-image-in-the-un-with-speech-full-of-omissions","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/minister-defends-brazils-image-in-the-un-with-speech-full-of-omissions\/","title":"Minister Defends Brazil\u2019s image in the UN with speech full of omissions","content":"

The Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights, Damares Alves, stepped up to the rostrum of the UN Human Rights Council on Monday, March 24, to defend the image of the Jair Bolsonaro government before the international community.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Alves, she came to present a \u201cnew Brazil\u201d. She highlighted the reduction in murders, the combat of organized crime, the new human rights ombudsman\u2019s office and the fight against corruption.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe do not make speeches in homage to human rights and social justice as a smokescreen for the institutionalized diversion of billions of dollars earmarked for health, education and public security. We are in fact doing the opposite. In 2019, the equivalent of more than 25 million dollars in assets recovered from the \u201cOperation Car Wash\u201d [corruption investigations] were allocated to the promotion of the rights of young offenders. Money from corruption is now being spent on public policies for the defense of human rights in Brazil,\u201d said the minister.<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch the speech below:<\/b><\/p>\n

According to Camila Asano, program coordinator at Conectas, the minister attempted to shield the image of Brazil in the UN with a speech full of omissions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Bolsonaro government was elected on an anti-rights platform and with hate speech against indigenous peoples, LGBTs, blacks and women. This is exactly the discourse that the government has been implementing,\u201d argued Asano. \u201cIt continues to submit legislative bills that systematically violate human rights, such as the exemption from illegality clause [which grants more protection to police officers who kill during operations] or mining on indigenous lands, while it attacks journalists with misogynistic rhetoric and calls people with HIV\/AIDS an \u2018expense\u2019 for the State.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Asano also noted a change in the stance of Brazilian foreign policy, which has stopped addressing major global issues to focus on promotion and defense of the administration.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe minister\u2019s speech reflects the contracting international relevance of Brazil in the world. Damares used her time for self-promotion in an attempt to distract attention from the serious violations committed by the Bolsonaro government,\u201d said Asano. \u201cMembership of the Human Rights Council implies a commitment to find solutions for the various crises of freedoms and oppressions in the world and the only situation briefly mentioned was Venezuela, but the focus once again was on the self-promotion of Brazil\u2019s measures,\u201d she concluded.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>

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