The ladies’s rights activist Maria da Penha Maia Fernandes, this Friday (7), was included within the Program for the Safety of Human Rights Defenders (PPDDH) of the Ceara authorities. The Minister of Ladies, Cida Gonçalves, made the request for particular safety for Maria da Penha personally to the governor of Ceara, Elmano de Freitas, final Monday (3), throughout a go to to Fortaleza.
Maria da Penha is an emblem of wrestle and provides her title to Brazil’s principal legislation that restricts acts of home and home violence in opposition to girls and punishes attackers. Earlier than By 11.340/2006this kind of violence was handled as a criminal offense with much less offensive potential.
The governor Elmano de Freitas, on the social community, gave the information throughout the framework of the Ceara Safety Program. The governor categorized the threats as “unacceptable malignant acts”.
“I categorical all my assist to this glorious girl, who modified the ache of being a sufferer into energy to struggle in opposition to the violence fueled by machismo”, stated Elmano de Freitas.
In a be aware, the Ministry of Ladies defined anew pretend information underneath Maria da Penha, a false model was revealed on social media that the pharmacist suffered an assault, and was not the sufferer of a female try by her husband.
“It’s unacceptable that Maria da Penha goes via this technique of revival even at present in Brazil, 18 years after she lent her title to one of many world’s most vital home violence legal guidelines and stop and struggle households in opposition to girls”, he stated. Minister of Ladies, Cida Gonçalves.
The activist Maria da Penha acquired affirmation from the Minister of Ladies, Cida Gonçalves, throughout a go to on Monday that she would obtain safety from the federal government of Ceara.
Needed at Brazilian companyo Maria da Penha Institute (IMP), he confirmed that Maria da Penha is already underneath the safety of this system, as a result of the inclusion was quick. The BMC factors out that the measures taken by the safety program to ensure the sufferer underneath risk are confidential and, subsequently, can’t be detailed.
Memorial of Maria da Penha
This Monday (3), the federal government of Ceara declared because the historic heritage of the state the home the place the activist Maria da Penha Fernandes lived, in Fortaleza.
The decree said that the aim of the Maria da Penha Memorial is to present a brand new which means to the property, given the significance of collective and particular person reminiscence, within the formation of a fairer and extra equal society for ladies. And he says that its implementation will assist to “protect and recognize the reminiscence and historic wrestle of Maria da Penha Fernandes, who reworked her ache into the aim of her life to today.”