MULHER E DIREITOS HUMANOS: POR QUE PRECISAMOS TRATAR DESTE TEMA?

Abstract

This paper was organized from the speech of the authors, in the opening of the event Women, Power and Democracy, held in 2018, in the Cultural Center of Federal Justice. The text makes a brief presentation of human rights and argue about the need to discuss such rights, considering the problems still faced by women, in the fight against sexual harassment and against what has been recently conceptualized as femicide, it means the persecution and intentional death of female people. It also discusses the need for public policies to effect women's rights, which is in perfect alignment with Objective 5, ODS 5, of 2030 Agenda for the Sustainable Development of the United Nations, UN.

Keywords

• 2030 agenda
• sustainable development
• equality of power between men and women