Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION REMOVES COMMITMENT TO PREVENT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND PROMOTE THE ETHNICAL AND CULTURAL DIVERSITY OF THE COUNTRY IN TEXTBOOKS

Theme(s)
Education, Gender and sexual orientation
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Attacks on pluralism and minorities

Read more about it here [1] [2]. Also read more about interventions in the education and the war on leftist ideology here [find out here] [find out here].

Jan 02 2019
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

EDUCATION MINISTER DISSOLVES THE SECRETARIAT FOR THE PROMOTION OF DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION AND PROMISES TO ‘FIGHT MARXISM’

Theme(s)
Administration, Education, Gender and sexual orientation
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Attacks on pluralism and minorities

Read about it here [1]. Read more about Education Minister Vélez here [2].

Jan 02 2019
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

WOMEN, FAMILY AND HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER CRITICIZES ‘GENDER IDEOLOGY’ AND SAYS THERE IS A NEW ERA IN BRAZIL, IN WHICH ‘BOYS WEAR BLUE AND GIRLS WEAR PINK’

Theme(s)
Gender and sexual orientation
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Attacks on pluralism and minorities

Read more about it here [1]. Read more about the Minister here [2] [3].

Jan 02 2019
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH’S (‘INEP’) PRESIDENT IS EXONERATED AFTER BOLSONARO CRITICIZED THE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL EXAMINATION’S (‘ENEM’) ADOPTION OF LGBT VOCABULARY

Theme(s)
Administration, Education, Gender and sexual orientation
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Violation of institutional autonomy

Read more about it here [1] and more about the context here [2]

Jan 14 2019
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

WOMEN, FAMILY AND HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER DEFENDS ‘LIFE’S BEGINNING AT CONCEPTION’ AND GOES AGAINST ABORTION RIGHTS AT THE UN

Theme(s)
Gender and sexual orientation, International relations
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Attacks on pluralism and minorities

Read more about it here [1]

Feb 25 2019
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO CREATES COMMISSION TO REMOVE ‘IDEOLOGICAL MATTERS’ FROM THE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL EXAMINATION (‘ENEM’)

Theme(s)
Administration, Education, Gender and sexual orientation
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Construction of enemies

Read more about the interventions in education concerning ‘leftist ideology’ and vigilantism here [1] [2] [3], about sexual education and LGBTQ+ rights here [4] [5], and about this episode – in Portuguese [find out here]

Mar 20 2019
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO VETOES BRAZILIAN BANK ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN THAT INCLUDED RACIAL AND SEXUAL DIVERSITY

Theme(s)
Artistic freedom, Culture, Gender and sexual orientation, Race and ethnicity
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Attacks on pluralism and minorities

Read more about this episode here [1] [2] and about the government’s interference in communication, setbacks for LGBT+ community in 2019 and structural racism – in Portuguese [3] [4] [5]

Apr 14 2019
 
Type of power
Informal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

BOLSONARO ATTACKS MINORITIES, DECLARING THAT ‘BRAZIL SHALL NOT BECOME GAY TOURISM PARADISE’ WHILE INCITING SEXUAL TOURISM WITH WOMEN

Theme(s)
Gender and sexual orientation
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Attacks on pluralism and minorities

Read more about it here [1]

Apr 25 2019
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

MINISTRY OF HEALTH REMOVES THE TERM ‘OBSTETRIC VIOLENCE’ FROM PUBLIC POLICY DOCUMENTS

Theme(s)
Administration, Gender and sexual orientation
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Attacks on pluralism and minorities

Read more about it here [1]
Read more about what is ‘obstetric violence’, called ‘disrespect and abuse during childbirth’ by the World Health Organization here [2] [3]
Read more about the terminology ‘obstetric violence’ here [4] [5]

May 03 2019
 
Type of power
Formal power
Branch
Executive
Power Level
Federal

MINISTRY OF EDUCATION WITHDRAWS FROM THE UNIVERSITARY PACT FOR THE PROMOTION OF RESPECT FOR DIVERSITY, CULTURE OF PEACE AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Theme(s)
Education, Gender and sexual orientation
Authoritarian Inventory measures
Attacks on pluralism and minorities

Read more about it here – in Portuguese [find out here] and about the extinction of the secretariat responsible for the pact here [find out here]

May 14 2019
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