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Sessão Solene para Outorga da Medalha do Mérito Evangélico
42 statements · 1 politicians · June 10, 2026
Statements by Tabata Amaral. 42 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Public Health / Public Safety, Education, Gender equality, Family Rights.
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Good morning. Good morning to all the women, good morning to all the men.
I begin by greeting our President, the dear Professor Dorinha Seabra.
I also greet friends: Senator Contarato, Senator Damares, my Leader, President, Deputy Jack Rocha.
It is an honor to walk alongside you once again.
I give a very special greeting to all the friends from the Grupo Mulheres do Brasil: Luiza Trajano, who is on her way, for whom I have so much affection, respect and admiration; but we also have here — and I was taking notes, but I won't be able to mention everyone — Dr. Janete, I have a lot of affection for you; Alexandra; Andréa; my friends from São Paulo, thank you for so many battles together.
To avoid a long speech, I wanted to bring a testimony of some of the many bills we managed to pass in Congress in recent years because you were here by our side, knocking on the doors of Deputies and Senators, helping us write these bills, explaining their importance to society.
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About: distribute free sanitary pads to adolescents and women
I began to list them and decided I wouldn't be able to speak about all of them, but for me it is impossible not to recall our joint struggle for the law on the distribution of sanitary pads, which brought together Senators and Deputies who are here as well, but which especially united you in civil society.
About: distribute free sanitary pads to adolescents and women
Thank you very much; we faced the taboo, we were labeled crazy many times, but today the distribution of sanitary pads is a reality in the Farmácia Popular program and I am already requesting with Minister Padilha that we also have distribution at health posts and in schools for vulnerable girls and women.
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About: include in the school curriculum content about Brazilian women who made history
Another bill, a law that is already being implemented, is 'Women Who Made History.'
We grow up hearing great deeds of men, and it's not that women weren't fundamental to the history of our Brazil.
The stories of these contributions in science, in politics, in the Army are often erased.
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About: include in the school curriculum content about Brazilian women who made history
So today our girls are, once, during a school year, introduced to great Brazilian women who made history and built this nation.
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About: establish quotas for women on the boards of public and mixed companies
Perhaps one of our most recent victories was the law that established a quota, a minimum percentage on the boards of large public and mixed-capital companies for the presence of women.
About: establish quotas for women on the boards of public and mixed companies
It was unacceptable that in 2025 we had large companies that did not even have a single woman on the board.
About: establish quotas for women on the boards of public and mixed companies
And we who like management, who like results, know that many studies have already shown that with women on those boards these companies would be more honest, more effective and more profitable.
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About: establish quotas for women on the boards of public and mixed companies
It took a few years — Senator Dorinha and Deputy Jack Rocha also helped us a lot — and today it is law.
About: establish quotas for women on the boards of public and mixed companies
We need to have at least one third women on those boards.
About: establish quotas for women on the boards of public and mixed companies
And within that one third, one third reserved for Black women and for women with disabilities.
About: establish quotas for women on the boards of public and mixed companies
As Senator Dorinha pointed out, you can't advance the fight for equality without looking at Black women, without looking at women with disabilities.
So, this is a great victory we achieved.
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About: increase the duration of paternity leave
And I promised I wouldn't speak about all the bills, but I think our most recent joint victory must be celebrated, which is the extension of paternity leave.
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About: increase the duration of paternity leave
We wanted an extension of two months to start, but we know that it's more important to move forward, to unblock the agenda, than to refuse to give up one of our points.
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About: increase the duration of paternity leave
So we started with ten days. As of next year it will be ten days, up from five; the following year, 15; the next, 20.
About: increase the duration of paternity leave
And I have already agreed with our President Jack Rocha that, when it reaches 20, I will file a new bill so we can continue expanding it.
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About: expand HPV vaccination campaigns in communities
Folks, I made this... (Applause.) Thank you. I tried to make this brief summary, but I can't fail to speak about an action of ours in São Paulo, which is a campaign we are doing jointly with the Grupo Mulheres do Brasil for HPV vaccination, because I think this really shows who you are, who these so combative women are, who often do not think alike, women who are seen as community leaders, great entrepreneurs, artists, scientists, but who unite for a purpose that often does not go viral, does not make the news, does not attract attention.
But I hope this brief account has made it very clear to those following us how present you are here in Congress, helping, mobilizing, writing, hassling us together, which is very important, but also how present you are in your communities.
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About: expand HPV vaccination campaigns in communities
The HPV vaccine is an example I bring from São Paulo, but I'm sure that throughout Brazil there are stories of how the women of our Brazil, of how you are changing the lives of real women, of women who live in the cities where you live.
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About: criminalize acts of misogyny
And then, to conclude, I joked earlier that your presence and influence are so strong that, on the day our Senator Dorinha scheduled this tribute, this solemn session, we will present the report later in the Chamber on the bill that criminalizes hatred against women.
This is a bill that was introduced by Senator Ana Paula Lobato.
About: criminalize acts of misogyny
I have the honor and the duty of serving as rapporteur for it in the Chamber.
About: criminalize acts of misogyny
And, as Jack and Dorinha have already said — I will not dwell on it — you cannot talk about opportunity while women are being murdered and raped.
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About: criminalize acts of misogyny
You cannot talk only about work, only about education, while so-called YouTubers and influencers are recording videos teaching how to drug a woman, rape her, and then publicize that video afterwards.
About: criminalize acts of misogyny
This is what we want to combat. And, with a lot of dialogue with the left and the right, we will be able to criminalize these acts of misogyny, of hatred against women.
About: implement Pix Pensão to facilitate payment and receipt of alimony
But it was not enough; the Senate CCJ put on this morning's agenda our Pix Pensão, which will be a very important bill for millions of women who today are not receiving the child support for their children.
About: implement a public policy agenda that brings security and opportunity for women
So I will finish here to say that you have a robust agenda that will bring life, will bring opportunity, will bring security to our women.
But to make it very clear to anyone who did not yet know you, this work did not start today, okay?
What I have recounted here are achievements, struggles that are already happening, and you are very important to the work of our Women's Caucuses, in the Chamber and in the Senate.
Thank you very much. It is an honor to walk with you.
About: elect more women to elective office
Always count on us, and may many return as elected Senators and Deputies to swell those ranks and increase that 18%, 19% that Senator Dorinha mentioned.
We are together, let's move forward! Thank you. Congratulations on everything!
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