Direitos das mulheres no contexto internacional: um estudo sobre a atuação do Brasil na ONU

Abstract

The following article investigates Brazilian posture regarding gender in UN bodies and seeks to understand how and why the position adopted by the Bolsonaro administration is a point of rupture from the previous diplomatic tradition. To that effect, based on studies that shed light on the development of Women’s Rights at the international level, we investigate how the current Brazilian position developed over the years and the factors behind it, dividing our analysis chronologically between four key periods for comparative effect: military junta years, re-democratization, the Worker Party’s years, and the coming to power of the current administration. For the first two periods, special attention was paid to key events in the development of the women, gender and sexuality rights framework at the major international conferences on women. To examine the most recent posture of the Brazilian government internationally, we pay special attention to the way foreign policy, in regards to the topic at hand, unfolds in international forums, such as the Human Rights Council. We conclude that after the re-democratisation process a cordial relationship between women rights movements and the respective administrations was established, a direct channel that influenced the development of foreign policy understandings on gender issues, and that this channel, due to the right-wing ideology infused in the current administration, finds itself no longer in operation.