Lawmakers try to bar gender and sexuality education in Brazil, says Human Rights Watch

The report highlights the existence of a campaign in the Brazilian Legislature to discredit and ban education on gender and sexuality | Image: Giovana Fleck/Global Voices Municipal and state parliaments throughout Brazil and members of the National Congress have used political tools to weaken or ban sex and gender education over the past eight years, according to a report published by Human Rights Watch (HRW) in May 2022. In the report ‘I’m afraid, that was their goal’: Efforts to ban gender and sexuality education in Brazil, the international human rights organization analyzed bills and laws …

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