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President Lula presented a group of actions to ensure the rights of Brazilian women
March 8th |
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva presented a package of actions to ensure the rights of Brazilian women, on the occasion of today’s International Women’s Day.
The Minister of Women, Cida Gonçalves, also participated in the announcements and among the measures disclosed is the sending to the National Congress of a bill that seeks to guarantee the payment by the employer of equal salaries for men and women who exercise the same function.
“When we accept that women earn less than men in the same job, we perpetuate a historical violence against women,” said Lula.
He specified that “the project has only one word that makes the difference, one single word. That magic word is called obligatory payment”, he remarked.
He warned that there will be many people who “do not want to pay (equal salaries), but for that the justice system will have to work”.
The above, she continued, in order to force “the employer who does not want to pay what the woman deserves for her work capacity”.
This point is foreseen in the current legislation and, according to the Government, the text foresees measures to make companies more transparent and to strengthen the control and fight against wage discrimination.
The announcement was made at the Planalto Palace, seat of the Executive Power, in the presence of the First Lady, Janja Lula da Silva, government ministers and representatives of public banks.
The founder of the Workers’ Party also defended that the process to equalize rights be accelerated and, if it depended on the government, inequality would end “by a simple decree of the president”.
For Lula, “women played a leading role in several key moments of our recent history: redemocratization, amnesty, Directas Ya and the Constituent Assembly”.
He insisted that “respect for women is a non-negotiable value in all spheres of the Federal Executive. We have 11 women at the head of ministries, but all the ministries and each member of this government is co-responsible for policies and actions aimed at women”, she emphasized.
Gonçalves, for her part, pointed out that the government decided to mark March 8 with public policies to confront violence against women and promote gender equality, economic autonomy and women’s integral health.
The fight against the various forms of violence is a priority in Brazil on International Women’s Day.
According to the Elas Viver report, published by the Network of Security Observatories, the South American giant recorded 2,423 cases of violence against women in 2022, among them 495 resulted in femicides, which translated into one aggression every four hours and one murder per day.
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Trump criticizes Panama Canal fees and demands U.S. control over strategic waterway
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump criticized what he described as unfair fees imposed on American ships passing through the Panama Canal and threatened to demand that Washington take back control of the strategic waterway.
“Our Navy and commerce have been threatened in a very unjust and reckless way. The rates that Panama charges are ridiculous,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
The president-elect also denounced the growing influence of China in the canal, a situation he called concerning as U.S. businesses depend on the waterway to transport goods between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
“This complete scam against our country will end immediately,” he stated.
The Panama Canal, completed by the United States in 1914, was handed over to Panama under the 1977 treaty signed by Democratic President Jimmy Carter. Panama took full control of the commercial passage in 1999.
“It was exclusively for Panama to manage, not China or anyone else,” Trump said. “We would never allow it to fall into the wrong hands!”
“If Panama cannot guarantee a ‘safe, efficient, and reliable’ operation of the canal, we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to us in its entirety, without a doubt,” the Republican added.
Panamanian authorities did not immediately respond to Trump’s statements. While he will assume office on January 20, Trump has been exerting his political influence in the final days of President Joe Biden’s administration.
Five percent of global maritime trade passes through the Panama Canal, which allows vessels traveling from Asia to the U.S. East Coast to avoid the long and dangerous route around the southern tip of South America.
The countries that use the Panama Canal the most are the United States, China, Japan, and South Korea.
In October, the Panama Canal Authority reported earnings of nearly $5 billion in the last fiscal year.
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Putin vows retaliation following drone attack on luxury building in Kazan
Russian President Vladimir Putin promised more “destruction” in Ukraine on Sunday, in response to a drone strike that hit a residential building in the city of Kazan, located in central Russia, on Saturday.
Russia accused Ukraine of launching a “massive” drone attack, which struck a luxury apartment block in Kazan, about 1,000 kilometers from the border.
Videos shared on Russian social media show drones hitting a high-rise glass building. No casualties have been reported as a result of the attack.
In his statements, Putin addressed the local leader of Tatarstan, the region where Kazan is located, during a virtual ceremony marking the opening of a road.
The attack in Kazan is the latest in a series of increasingly frequent bombings in this nearly three-year-old conflict. Ukraine has not commented on the attack.
Putin had previously threatened to strike the center of Kyiv with a hypersonic ballistic missile in response to Ukrainian attacks on Russian territory.
The Russian Ministry of Defense stated that the recent Russian strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities were retaliation for Ukraine’s use of Western-supplied missiles to target Russian territory.
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Small plane crashes in Gramado, Brazil, killing nine people
At least nine people were killed on Sunday after a small aircraft crashed in a commercial area of the tourist city of Gramado, in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, authorities confirmed.
“There are nine confirmed deaths according to Civil Defense services, and there are no survivors from the plane,” said Cléber dos Santos Lima, director of the Interior Police Department of the Civil Police of the state, in a statement to AFP.
Authorities have not yet confirmed the exact number of passengers and crew aboard the aircraft, a turbo-prop Piper Cheyenne 400. However, Civil Defense had previously stated that “preliminarily, the plane was carrying ten people.”
The plane crashed on Sunday morning “into the chimney of a building, then onto the second floor of a house, and finally fell onto a furniture store,” according to a statement from the Rio Grande do Sul Public Security Secretariat.
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