GENDER AND RACE: intersectionalities in the combat of violence against Brazilian women
Women; Gender; Race; Violence; Specific public policies.
The violence against Brazilian women has ranked Brazil in the fifth position of countries that kill the most women in the world, even though it has made commitments based on the American Convention on Human Rights (ACHR) and the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence against Women. In this context, as a result of the Maria da Penha case, it was observed that once the recommended measures given to Brazil by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) were applied nationally, they were able to reduce the rate of femicides, but on the other hand, the rate of feminicides practiced against black Brazilian women increased. In view of this, the present study has the general objective of identifying the possible deficiency in the public policies adopted in the fight against violence against Brazilian women, with emphasis on black women, that are causing this result. To this end, an ex-post facto bibliographic research was made, in a qualitative-quantitative approach, of an applied nature and explanatory objective. This method led to the conclusion that there is a need to adopt specific public policies to combat violence against black Brazilian women, who are understood as triply discriminated against.