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Pronunciamento à nação: Dia Internacional da Mulher
56 statements · 1 politicians · March 7, 2026 · 6 min
Statements by Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. 56 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Violence Against Women and Protection, Public Safety and Order, Gender equality, Labor policy.
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My female friends and my male friends, tomorrow, March 8, is International Women's Day.
A day of reflection.
How does our country treat women?
And more than that, how do we, Brazilian men, treat women?
We need to start by facing reality, no matter how harsh it may be.
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About: implement the National Pact Brazil against Femicide
Every six hours a man kills a woman in Brazil.
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About: implement the National Pact Brazil against Femicide
Each femicide is the result of a sum of daily, silent, normalized acts of violence.
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About: implement the National Pact Brazil against Femicide
The overwhelming majority of these assaults occur inside the home, in an environment that should be one of protection.
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About: implement the National Pact Brazil against Femicide
Within such a shocking scenario, I ask: what future will be possible for us if we continue to be one of the countries most violent toward women?
And furthermore, what future should our country build for women?
About: implement the National Pact Brazil against Femicide
Despite everything we have done, such as the dial 180 hotline, the Maria da Penha Law and the law that defines the crime of femicide, men continue to assault and kill women.
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About: implement the National Pact Brazil against Femicide
Even with the increased penalties for femicide, with up to 40 years' imprisonment for the murderers, men continue to assault and kill women.
About: implement the National Pact Brazil against Femicide
We cannot resign ourselves.
About: implement the National Pact Brazil against Femicide
That is why I launched the National Pact Brazil against Femicide, which I signed in February, bringing together the three branches of government to protect women's lives.
About: implement the National Pact Brazil against Femicide
Last Friday, we announced a set of actions to be implemented immediately.
About: implement the National Pact Brazil against Femicide
To begin, a task force from the Ministry of Justice in partnership with the state governments, to arrest more than 2,000 perpetrators of violence against women who cannot and will not remain at large.
About: implement the National Pact Brazil against Femicide
And I am warning.
Other operations will follow.
About: implement the National Pact Brazil against Femicide
Violence against women is not a private matter where no one should meddle.
It is a crime.
About: implement the National Pact Brazil against Femicide
And we will indeed step in.
About: monitor aggressors with electronic ankle bracelets
We will implement electronic monitoring of perpetrators whose victims have protective orders.
About: expand and strengthen specialized services for women (police stations and prosecutors' offices)
We will also expand and strengthen specialized women's police stations and women's prosecutors' offices.
About: create a Unified Public Security System
Another immediate action is the creation of the Integrated Public Security Center.
About: create a Unified Public Security System
with unified data and monitoring of perpetrators.
About: implement the National Pact Brazil against Femicide
The rule is clear: those who assault women cannot go about as if nothing has happened.
About: expand and strengthen specialized services for women (reference centers and women's shelters)
We are also expanding the network of units of the reference centers and the Casas da Mulher Brasileira, which offer specialized services for victims of domestic violence and suicide.
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About: reduce gender and racial inequalities
My female friends and my male friends, even when we make progress, inequality persists.
About: guarantee equal pay for women and men when performing the same role
We approved the law that guarantees equal pay between women and men when they perform the same role.
About: reduce gender and racial inequalities
But we need to do more, because for women every day is a day of struggle.
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About: implement policies to reconcile work and family responsibilities
From the moment they wake up to go to work until the time they finish the workday, which very often is a double shift, at the job and at home.
About: end the 6x1 work schedule
That is why we need to move forward in ending the six-for-one schedule, which forces a person to work six days a week and have only one day off.
About: end the 6x1 work schedule
It's time to put an end to this, because it will mean more time with family, more time to study, rest and live.
This is an agenda for Brazilian women.
About: expand the reach of public policies to vulnerable populations
My female friends and my male friends, in these three years of government, we rebuilt public policies that benefit families and, above all, women.
About: implement more measures to support families
We rebuilt Bolsa Família, Farmata Popular, Minha Casa Minha Vida and created new programs such as Pé de Meia, Gás do Povo, Luz do Povo and Zero Income Tax for those who earn up to 5,000 reais.
About: distribute free sanitary pads to adolescents and women
And the program for the free distribution of sanitary pads to adolescents and women.
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About: allow digital casinos
Another drama that affects Brazilian households is gambling addiction.
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About: allow digital casinos
Although the majority of addicts are men, the burden falls on women.
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About: allow digital casinos
It is the money for food, rent, the children's schooling that disappears on the phone screen.
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