Exploring Brazilian foreign policy towards women: dimensions, outcomes, actors and influences

Salomón, Mónica

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“…Leading in this reverse polarity are the sexual and reproductive rights of women. Until 2019, Brazil “maintained a consistent, coherent diplomatic stance, in tune with domestic and transnational feminist positions and its broader stance on human rights” (Salomón, 2020, p. 4). After that year, the new government engaged in a significant substitution of interlocutors, from social movements and rights defenders to religious networks and organizations (Selis & Prado, 2021).…”

Section: The Search For a New Protagonism Related To Totalitarian Adv...mentioning

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The decline of Brazil in the global health field: Rupture, loss, and reversal of leadership in the international health agenda

Trivellato

Ventura

2022

Latin American Policy

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The implantation of a public system of universal access to care has been the most significant contribution from the health sector to Brazil's democratization, and its diffusion through foreign policy raised the country to a status as a global health leader. Yet, the rise of a far‐right government impinges a fracture upon this dual process, through the renunciation of leading roles in both regional and wider progressive initiatives. Based on documental and literature analysis guided by exploratory interviews with global health agents, this article introduces the actors responsible for the alignment between foreign policy and the Unified Health System principles and demonstrates that a significant retrenchment of diplomatic activity paved the way for the renunciation of protagonism in progressive agendas. The process began with the shutdown of Unasur Health and public opposition to the sexual and reproductive rights agenda and culminated in the felonious emptying of technical cadres from the Ministry of Health and the change of position on intellectual property issues related to public health during the Covid‐19 pandemic.

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Section: The Search For a New Protagonism Related To Totalitarian Adv...mentioning

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The decline of Brazil in the global health field: Rupture, loss, and reversal of leadership in the international health agenda

Trivellato

Ventura

2022

Latin American Policy

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“…Rousseff largely followed the preceding leftist government of Lula da Silva in supporting redistributive policies that benefited Brazilian women. Internationally, she also followed her predecessor in pursuing a foreign policy in line with the United Nations Security Council’s Women, Peace and Security agenda without explicitly adopting a pro-women stance (Salomón 2020). However, as Jalalzai and dos Santos (2015, 118) note, Rousseff had a “direct impact” on increasing women’s descriptive presentation in the executive branch.…”

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Madame President, Madame Ambassador? Women Presidents and Gender Parity in Latin America’s Diplomatic Services

Erlandsen

Hernández-Garza

Schulz

2021

Political Research Quarterly

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This study focuses on the gendered nature of ambassadorial appointments. Analyzing the diplomatic services of ten Latin American countries between 2000 and 2018, we examine the factors that explain the designation of women to ambassadorships. More especially, we are interested in whether the election of women to the presidency in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Costa Rica had an impact on the gender gap at the top of those countries’ foreign services. Drawing on an original dataset on diplomatic appointments, we show that the presence of women ambassadors has increased only marginally over the past two decades. Furthermore, multivariate regression analysis demonstrates that women presidents on the left have (partially and temporarily) corrected the gender gap in their foreign services through political appointments, provided they had the discretionary powers to do so. Our findings suggest that the impact of women-led presidencies is conditional on the chief executive’s vested interest in gender parity and the scope of presidents’ prerogatives to appoint ambassadors. In so doing, the study contributes to debates on the descriptive underrepresentation of women in executive positions and the gender gap in diplomacy.

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Violence Against Women in Russia and Brazil: International and Domestic Responses

Nelaeva

2021

BRICS law journal

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The problem of domestic violence and violence against women, despite being an age-old phenomenon, came to the fore of public debate relatively late. It entered the agenda of intergovernmental organizations in the 1990s, but became the subject of international litigation only in the 2000s and 2010s. While this belated response of the international community can be associated with the inadequate conceptualization of the problem and insufficient data, it also has to do with the ongoing public/private dichotomy that became especially pronounced in the recent years when various conservative groups increasingly question the necessity of specific laws and policies aimed at eliminating this kind of crime. In this article, I briefly trace the developments concerning women’s rights, and, particularly, domestic violence and violence against women in international law. Then, based on the analysis of international and regional court decisions, I try to see how and whether these decisions contributed to the domestic developments in the field of combatting this phenomenon in Russia and Brazil. It is also important to examine how COVID-19 pandemic impacted the narratives of violence and how the international community should respond to the challenge of protecting the most vulnerable members of the society in the conditions of health emergency.

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Exploring Brazilian foreign policy towards women: dimensions, outcomes, actors and influences

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

The decline of Brazil in the global health field: Rupture, loss, and reversal of leadership in the international health agenda

The decline of Brazil in the global health field: Rupture, loss, and reversal of leadership in the international health agenda

Madame President, Madame Ambassador? Women Presidents and Gender Parity in Latin America’s Diplomatic Services

Violence Against Women in Russia and Brazil: International and Domestic Responses

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