The PFDC (Federal Prosecutor’s Office for Citizens’ Rights), a collegiate body that works within the scope of the PGR (Attorney General’s Office), demanded from Minister Damares Alves (Women, Family and Human Rights) an explanation, in ten days, about the initiative of the ministry to make Dial 100 available for complaints against anti-vaccination people.
In a letter signed on Monday night (31), the federal prosecutor for Citizens’ Rights, Carlos Alberto Vilhena, considered “worthy of concern” the conduct of the Damares ministry in the sense of attacking the vaccination passport, condemning the mandatory vaccination against Covid-19 and make Dial 100 available for anti-vaccinations that allege “discrimination”.
The initiative to demand an explanation from the minister precedes a decision on whether or not to request the opening of an investigation related to the preparation of the technical note by secretaries and director of the portfolio. The document was endorsed by Damares.
THE leaf revealed on the 27th that the Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights produced a technical note in which it opposes the vaccination passport and the mandatory vaccination of children.
In the document, the ministry makes Dial 100, the government’s main channel for reporting human rights violations, available to anti-vaccination people who experience “discrimination”.
The document was ready on the 19th. Damares endorsed the document and forwarded it to ministries, such as the Economy and Labor and Welfare, as of the 21st.
By making Dial 100 available to those who experience “discrimination” for not being vaccinated, as the ministry said, the ministry can generate distortion and overload the whistleblower channel, in the view of government managers familiar with the service.
Dial 100 is the federal government’s main instrument for receiving complaints and forwarding them for investigation into these allegations of violence against women, children and adolescents, the elderly, people with disabilities, people living on the streets and the LGBTQIA+ population.
After the publication of the report, the PT and PSOL benches in the Chamber and the Rede Sustentabilidade party presented requests to the MPF (Federal Public Ministry) and the STF (Federal Supreme Court) to investigate the initiative of Damares’ ministry.
A representation of 40 PT deputies was filed with the PFDC. The document is led by deputies Maria do Rosário (RS), former minister of Human Rights, and Gleisi Hoffmann, president of the party. Senator Humberto Costa (PT-PE) also filed a similar document with the PFDC.
Based on the request made by the senator, Vilhena, who is the deputy attorney general, sent a letter asking Damares to explain himself within ten days.
“It is worthy of concern the conduct of the ministry of, in an official document, considering that the imposition of a health measure provided for by law constitutes a violation of human rights, and, if that were not enough, making its most important channel of complaints available for the hearing of ‘complaints’ contrary to mandatory vaccination,” said the federal prosecutor.
Vilhena then sent four questions to Damares, before “adopting any measures”.
The questions are: does the technical note represent the official position of the ministry? What basis did the ministry use to consider a public health measure provided for by law and endorsed by the STF a violation of human rights?
And more: has the ministry adopted or will it adopt concrete action to put Dial 100 to receive complaints? Will the National Human Rights Ombudsman, which is not subordinate to the secretaries who sign the note, be compelled to receive and process complaints from those who are against the vaccine?
In the technical note prepared and distributed to ministries, Damares’ portfolio concluded that “imperative measures of vaccination as a condition for access to human and fundamental rights may violate constitutional provisions and international guidelines”.
In addition, in the view of members of the ministry, these measures may contradict bioethical principles, harm human dignity and “end up producing discrimination and social segregation, including within the family.”
“The ministry understands that the requirement to present a vaccine certificate can lead to a violation of human and fundamental rights”, quotes the document distributed to ministries.
The of complaints, which can be accessed through Dial 100″, says the technical note.
The ministry promised to forward these complaints to Organs competent bodies, “so that the human rights of each citizen can be protected and defended.”
The document was signed by Eduardo Miranda Freire, deputy national secretary for Global Protection; Fernanda Ramos Monteiro, deputy national secretary for the Rights of Children and Adolescents; Marcelo Couto Dias, deputy national secretary for the Family; and Jailton Almeida do Nascimento, director of Promotion and Education in Human Rights.
Damares endorsed the document. “The technical note was prepared jointly by the national secretariats for Global Protection, Family and Children’s and Adolescents’ Rights, with the objective of presenting technical, legal and political foundations in the field of human rights, which, in the view of this folder, do not justify the obligation now proposed”, said the minister.
In a note to the report, the ministry stated that Dial 100 is open to all who feel their fundamental rights have been violated.
“The service does not make value judgments about the complaints. It only receives, sorts and forwards dissatisfaction reports to the competent bodies”, he said.
The technical note was prepared by the ministry because the National Human Rights Ombudsman received manifestations about rights violations, according to the ministry.
“The ministry is not against vaccination against Covid-19, but it manifests itself, based on legal provisions, contrary to its obligation.”
Source: Folha
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