Meeting of the conference of Indigenous Women’s start with the power of the ancestralidades

By Daphne Spolti/OPAN

The opening of the first National Conference of Women, Indigenous peoples, held on Monday, and (4) in the world today, it was a moment in history in which political leaders have been added to the ministers of the State for different portfolios for the end of gender-based violence, democracy, and public policy matters.

Sonia Guajajara, Macaé Evaristo, Silva, Célia Xakriabá, Joenia groups intersect, Márcia Helena Carvalho Lopes e Margareth Menezes, if you put it with the other players at the table are as diverse and representative as the plenary session of the Conference, which was attended by women of indigenous peoples of Brazil, and from the overseas countries.

“It is with great joy and a deep respect for that, I salute each and every one of the native women in the room. Of these women, who came here from the forest, the mountains, the forest, the banks of the rivers, the villages, and out of the cities. It is exciting to look at in this plenary session, and to see it fulfilled so many of the leaders are the custodians of life and on the planet, with the knowledge of ancient builders of the future,” the minister said Sonia Guajajara, of the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples ‘ (MPI).

The corners of resistance

The power of the work has been based around the corners, and the prayers that have occurred in the fourth National March of Women, Indigenous peoples, the first National Conference of Women, Indigenous peoples, organized through a partnership between the MPI and the Ministry of Women, and the National organization of Women, Indigenous peoples See also: in the Mouth (Anmiga). Among the cultural events, and more beautiful than the other, and took on the ambience in the corner, thin the creation of the indigenous Kayapo to the start of the event.

“We think the presence of women in the space, and politics itself is a revolution in itself, it is a transformer, because you’ve never dreamed of being in this space. So, it’s a wonderful look for Brasilia, brazil and you see so many women to so many people, so many of the people of Brazil, occupying this place, and that it’s our right,” he said of the minister of Human Rights, the Macaé Evaristo.

“Today we make history. And all we are, this is the story,” said the director of the Anmiga, Josileia Companies, relying on the way to the realization of the Conference, designed in 2019 and is now firmly established as a result of their efforts, the politician played by women in the past few years. “We, as women, indigenous peoples, are the custodians of our bodies, and our lands. We are advocates for the well-being. We are advocates of Justice, and Climate of the ancient knowledge and skills, and with the strength we have in this great event.

Support to leadership 

A member of the federal Célia Xakriabá (PSOL MG), and the minister, Marina Silva, the minister of the Environment and the Climate and were a ovacionadas for women, in a gesture of support in the face of the attacks, which both of which have been made in the National Congress. “Before that, those, and ones that they wore jackets, women have always been, and will continue to be those who are in authority, in Brazil,” said the world Market, in one speech, will also be treated to in the video for the opening of the Conference at the following link.

“Everyone is here, each and every one to pay a price in order to defend the people, to black, to stand up for women, to defend against the indigenous,” said the minister, Marina Silva, and enhancing the awareness of choice and to the involvement of the local communities. “Who is the greatest defense is the one who endures to the territories,” he said.

Addressing violence against native american women

The minister of Macaé Evaristo told you about the situations you want to recurrent violence to indigenous peoples, who come under the Ministry of Human Rights on the case of murder, death on the territories of indigenous peoples on the basis of territorial disputes, and the environment. “There will be a lot of work in those days, a lot of things to be done”.

Joenia groups intersect, the president of the National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples (Funai) draws attention to the serious acts of violence committed against indigenous women, saying that it is the violence and the psychological, mental and physical, at the mention of the newly disclosed to a situation of a gang rape perpetrated by agents of the state against a woman of the people, Kokama , and the fight for Justice. “I’ve had enough of the violence to the bodies of women”, he protested Joenia.

She stressed the importance of women, indigenous people in various parts of the government: “We have contained, and ready to discuss all issues. When I say prepared, it’s that we can take up any space, be it the public, whether it be the movement of the indians, it is the representation of politics as a member of parliament, Célia Xakriabá”.

Democracy and the strengthening of public policies

Marcia Ellen Carvalho Lopes, minister of the Ministry of Women’s affairs, began his speech in a democracy, given that the conference is possible only in democratic governance. He recalled that even in ministries, such as those present at the opening of the Conference, which is of great importance to the local population, they are at risk in other systems, as was the case in the previous government, which ousted the government ministries and canceled the conference.

“You have to fight for it so much that Brazil has a way of being in the country, its people, indigenous peoples, traditional peoples and communities, and the people who respect women. The female descendants of runaway slaves, indigenous people, women, black, women, an, and the women of the street, the immigrant women, disabled women, women of all woods and forests, and the corners of this country,” he said, stressing the learning process, which has been made possible by the Ministry in order to qualify for your job, from the changes in the various forums of the women in the country.

Abrilhantando of the Conference, the minister of Culture, Margareth Menezes, a painting of the native american women. “They are the guardians of the word, memory, to the territory are the ones that convey your skills, grow food, create with the kids, they hold in the community and move forward.” Responding to repeated requests from the fact that she sang.

Next steps

The implementation of the first National Conference of Women, it is the result of the steps that the state and regional authorities, carried out in all of the biomes in the country. It aims at the evaluation of the action of the federal government in the brazilian government aimed at women, indigenous peoples, the amendment and restatement of the policies and safeguards for the indigenous women, and the contribution to the national plan of policies for women of indigenous people within the framework of the fight against the acts of violence, and, ultimately, contribute to the consolidation of the National Policy on Women. The proposals are set out on the national stage will be the implementation of the The 5th Conference on Policies for Women , which will be held from 29 September to 01 October.