President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) said this Friday (12/12) that he is expected to meet next week with several authorities to discuss violence against women, a topic that has frequently appeared during recent protests by the President of the Republic, following recent cases that have had repercussions throughout the country.
According to Lula, he has planned a meeting with the authorities of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), the Superior Court of Justice, the Federal Senate, the Chamber of Deputies and the Attorney General’s Office (PGR), among other institutions, to discuss this issue.
“The fight against violence against women cannot be the task of the government alone. It requires the commitment of the federal government, the Congress, the judiciary, the state and municipal governments and the entire Brazilian society. It is necessary to educate children, it is necessary to make men aware that a woman’s place is where she wants to be, at the time she wants, with the clothes she wants and in the company of who she wants to be,” he said.
This statement was made during his speech at the XIII National Conference on Human Rights, which took place in Brasilia.
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However, the president did not specify when the meeting will be held, nor who will be present. “We need to make a reversal in our discourse. Violence against women is not a problem that must be solved by women. Violence against women is a problem that must be solved by the character of men who think they are men. Nobody. And it is an educational problem. We learn when we are children,” he said.
During his speech, the president also cited recent reports on femicide and violence against women in Brazil and demanded accountability from social media regarding posts on their platforms with hateful content.
“Digital networks must be held accountable for systematically publishing hate speech and incitement to violence against women. Freedom of expression cannot be confused with complicity in the commission of heinous crimes,” the president said.
However, this is not the first time that Lula has addressed the subject of femicide, having recently increased his speeches against this type of crime, especially after the repercussion of cases throughout the country, such as that of a man arrested in the act in Pernambuco, suspected of having caused a fire which killed his partner and the couple’s four children.
The president even declared that “a tramp who beats a woman doesn’t need to vote for me.”
Lula also defended that platforms invest in content moderation technologies to prevent the massive circulation of content that hates women or incites some form of violence.
“It is unacceptable that digital platforms continue to claim that they are not responsible for criminal content published on their networks. It is intolerable that publications encouraging femicide, rape, assault and other forms of violence against women continue to circulate with impunity, without any form of moderation,” he added.
The 13th National Human Rights Conference marks the resumption of the event after years without editions. The aim is to promote the formulation of guidelines for the national human rights system. The last edition of the conference took place in 2016.
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