Flaviopédia Português
Brazil for Women

Safe Home ("Casa Segura")

protection starts at home

Provides for expanding shelter spaces for women experiencing violence and assisting women in obtaining the deed to their own home in their name.

In the program: [p. 20] · Translated by Flaviopédia from the official Portuguese text; the Portuguese quote is authoritative. Read the original in Portuguese

What the program says

We will expand shelter spaces for women experiencing violence, because no woman should remain at her aggressor’s side because she has nowhere to go. And we will assist a woman in obtaining the deed to her own home in her name, one of the most solid forms of autonomy and of protection against domestic violence: an asset that is hers and that will one day pass to her children, whatever happens. This is an agenda that has already shown results: during the Bolsonaro government, of the roughly 450,000 rural property titles handed out, 90% went to women. [p. 20]

In plain language

  • The program proposes expanding shelter spaces for women experiencing violence, so that no woman has to remain at her aggressor’s side because she has nowhere to go.
  • It also provides for assisting a woman in obtaining the deed to her own home in her name. The text presents the home in the woman’s name as a form of autonomy and of protection against domestic violence, and as an asset that would pass to her children.
  • The text states that, under a previous government cited in the passage, 90% of the roughly 450,000 rural property titles handed out went to women.

What is not in the program

  • It does not state how many shelter spaces would be created or where.
  • It does not detail what the assistance in obtaining the deed consists of or who provides it.
  • It does not say whether the assistance applies to urban properties, rural properties or both.
  • It gives no timeline, cost or source of funding.
  • It does not give the source of the figure on rural property titles.