The Informe Brasil – Gênero e Educação (Brazil Report – Gender and Education) was produced within the framework of the Campanha Educação Não Sexista e Anti-Discriminatória (Non-Sexist and Anti-Discriminatory Education Campaign) by the Ação Educativa, with the collaboration of the Ecos – Comunicação e Sexualidade, CNRVV – Centro de Referência às Vítimas de Violência do Instituto Sedes Sapientiae/SP (Reference Center for Victims of Violence at the Sedes Sapientiae / SP) and the National Rapporteurship for the Human Right to Education of the DHESCA Brazil Platform.
The Campanha Educação Não Sexista e Anti-Discriminatória (http://educacion-nosexista.org/) is a plural articulation of organizations and people from Latin American civil society in defense of human rights and a public, secular and free for all education. Coordinated by CLADEM (Latin American and Caribbean Committee for the Defense of Women’s Rights), the Campaign acts in 14 countries, seeking to give visibility to the challenges of the social relations of gender in guaranteeing the human right to education. The Brazilian Report integrates a Regional Report developed in all Latin American countries that make up the Campaign, a document to be released in 2012.
Based on the international framework of which Brazil is a signatory, the National Report questions the understanding of government sectors and civil society that states the challenges of guaranteeing women’s rights in Brazil and, more broadly and relationally, gender equity (between men and women), in education have already been “solved”. This view is reinforced by several reports produced by the Brazilian State in recent decades that point to longer shooling and better performance of women in education as a definitive answer to the international goals regarding gender inequities in education.
In this perspective, the document problematizes this vision and presents a contribution to the debate on gender and education, through the generation, systematization and analysis of a set of information that outlines the current challenges.
The document consists of seven sections: 1) General information about the country; 2) The organization of the education system in Brazil; 3) National legislation and public policies in education; 4) Inequalities in education; 5) Education in sexuality in public education (elaborated by Ecos – Comunicação e Sexualidade); 6) School and sexual violence (elaborated by the CNRVV); and 7) Conclusion: towards a political agenda.
In November 2011, the Report was presented at a public hearing of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States in Washington, USA.