Flaviopédia Português
Brazil without Fear

Zero tolerance for femicide

Proposes monitoring the aggressors of women with protective orders using electronic ankle monitors and requiring murderers and aggressors of women to serve their full sentence.

In the program: [p. 14] · Translated by Flaviopédia from the official Portuguese text; the Portuguese quote is authoritative. Read the original in Portuguese

What the program says

A protective order will stop being a piece of paper and become a real instrument for protecting women. The aggressors of the more than half a million women with protective orders in Brazil will be monitored by the authorities using electronic ankle monitors. We will toughen the law and require murderers and aggressors of women to serve their sentences in full. Because today the system frees criminals after 55% of their sentence. That will end. It is jail the whole time: from the first day to the last. [p. 14]

In plain language

  • The program proposes that the aggressors of the more than half a million women with protective orders be monitored by the authorities with an electronic ankle monitor.
  • It provides for toughening the law so that murderers and aggressors of women serve their entire sentence in prison.
  • The text states that today the system releases criminals after 55% of the sentence has been served.

What is not in the program

  • It does not specify which authorities would carry out the monitoring or what would happen if the aggressor violated the protective order.
  • It gives no cost, funding source or timeline for the use of ankle monitors.
  • It does not identify which law would be amended or the path to approval.
  • It does not cite the source of the figures of half a million women and 55% of the sentence.