{"id":34957,"date":"2022-02-28T14:53:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T14:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&#038;p=34957"},"modified":"2022-03-11T13:27:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T13:27:12","slug":"without-mentioning-ukraine-damares-alves-defends-the-bolsonaro-administration-at-the-un","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/without-mentioning-ukraine-damares-alves-defends-the-bolsonaro-administration-at-the-un\/","title":"Without mentioning Ukraine, Damares Alves defends the Bolsonaro administration at the UN","content":"<div class=\"tts_content_wrapper_1\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an address at the opening of the 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva (Switzerland), the Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights, Damares Alves, spoke in defense of the Bolsonaro government while completely ignoring the war in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Raising well-known issues from the minister\u2019s ultra-conservative agenda, such as the defense of life from conception, the speech exposes Brazil\u2019s ambiguous position on what is one of the largest military conflicts in recent history, with serious human, social and economic implications.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Camila Asano, program director at Conectas, the speech places Brazilian diplomacy in a position of even greater international irrelevance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAfter Bolsonaro\u2019s disastrous trip to visit Russian President Vladimir Putin just before the outbreak of the war, it was hoped that Brazil would adopt an unequivocal position before the international community, particularly since the country voted in favor of the Security Council resolution just days ago,\u201d said Asano. \u201cIt is shocking that a senior government representative stood at the UN rostrum in the midst of a serious global crisis to give a perfunctory speech addressing only a domestic agenda,\u201d she added.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Read more:<\/b><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/how-bolsonaro-sides-with-putin-and-orban-on-issues-that-conflict-with-fundamental-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>How Bolsonaro sides with Putin and Orb\u00e1n on issues that conflict with fundamental rights<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/russian-attack-on-ukraine-likely-to-generate-new-flow-of-refugees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Russian attack on Ukraine likely to generate new flow of refugees<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asano also pointed out the incongruity of the minister\u2019s speech, by using the international rostrum to respond to a statement from the UN Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture, which in a visit to Brazil earlier this month <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/NewsEvents\/Pages\/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=28114&amp;LangID=E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">urged the country to comply with its international obligations<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and abandon its decision to dismantle the National Mechanism to Combat and Prevent Torture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe minister said that the National Mechanism to Combat and Prevent Torture was fully functional, whereas all of civil society has watched closely the attempts to dismantle and interfere in the body during the Bolsonaro administration, including an attempt to dismiss its independent experts and obstruct their work,\u201d said Asano.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a former member of the National Committee to Combat and Prevent Torture, Conectas closely followed the problems encountered by the Mechanism during the Bolsonaro administration.&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/the-importance-of-the-mechanism-for-the-combat-of-torture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Read here<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> an article that explains the series of attempts to dismantle the body.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Anti-abortion crusade<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As expected, Minister Damares Alves once again defended life from conception, praising the international alliance known as the \u201cGeneva Consensus\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Created by Brazil and the United States, the initiative that was heralded as an international agreement for the promotion of women\u2019s health actually presents a vision that runs counter to sexual and reproductive rights, in particular on abortion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The agreement has already been abandoned by the administration of US President Joe Biden, leaving Brazil isolated with ultraconservative countries on the gender agenda, namely Russia, Saudi Arabia, Uganda, Iraq and Hungary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In January, an article published in the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo by Conectas and Sexuality Policy Watch detailed the problems of this alliance.&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.folha.uol.com.br\/opiniao\/2022\/01\/brasil-assume-lideranca-de-alianca-internacional-antiaborto.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>Read the article in full here<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"tts__custom-position_bottom_fixed\" ><\/div>","excerpt":"<p>In an address at the opening of the 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council, in Geneva (Switzerland), the Minister of Women, Family and Human 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