Voluntary admission will be allowed starting in 2025. Just like men, the enlisted women will not hold a permanent position in the military and will join the unpaid reserve once dismissed.
Starting in 2026, the University of São Paulo will have a compulsory reading list with works written by women authors in Portuguese. The move comes in a bid to value the role of women in literature.
The Ministry of Women on Tuesday has unveiled the Action Plan of the National Pact for the Prevention of Femicides. The efforts are part of the celebrations for women’s month of March in the promotion of gender equality.
On the promenade of Rio’s Copacabana Beach, 164 pairs of women’s shoes laid out side by side represented the victims of femicide. In the state of Rio de Janeiro, cases totaled 111 in 2022 and 53 in the first half of this year.
An unprecedented study by the Bahia School of Law, the Jus Brasil legal portal, and the UNDP looked at 107 lower court rulings from 2010 to 2022 involving offenses against black people on social media.
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