Advocacy In Pandemic Times: Fight Against Violence To Women From The Perspective Of Personality Rights

Abstract

Domestic and family violence against women has worsened during the pandemic, due to the limitation of physical spaces due to a public health issue. Social distancing, together with socioeconomic factors, individual and collective uncertainties and tensions, end up favoring family conflicts and being an obstacle to the denunciation of the situation. The increase in domestic and family violence, at least in the period observed here from June 2020 to March 2021, in Brazil, will not always be evidenced by numbers. Within this context, then, the objective is to analyze the factors and consequences caused to the victims of this violence, as well as to analyze the use of advocacy to expand female participation in favor of women's rights and guarantees. The problem of research is, therefore, to what extent can advocacy help the rights of the female personality? And by rights of the female personality is understood the legal protection to individual attributes and essential to women, such as their physical and psychic integrity, clearly attributes achieved in domestic and family violence. The hypothesis raised is that  advocacy causes pressure on public agents, by raising flags, causes and problematizing them before the social body, especially in the technological spaces of social networks, that there will be reaction of those agents to make the flag as a public agenda, as well as to take action in the search to solve, or mitigate, the problematization raised. The study will be developed from the survey of studies in the area of advocacy, democratic participation and violence against women for a bibliographic review. And, based on the deductive method, from the existence of the Brazilian democratic state, based on the principle of human dignity and, on the other hand, the aggravation of violence against women in the current social conjuncture. The results show an intimate relationship of advocacy, approximation of voices, here feminine, towards democracy, because it is revealed an instrument of direct participation and potential for the realization of interests and rights for women.