Caso Favela Nova Brasília vs. Brasil

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze how sexual violence against women can be used as a mechanism of female control from the Favela Nova Brasília case. To do so, at a first moment, the facts regarding the case that has reached in international routes due to the unfounded delay of the investigative process, failures and delays in the punishment of those responsible for committing torture to the residents and sexual abuse to the women in the community where those responsible were conducting police raids. Subsequently, the procedural process of the case will be verified before the international instances as well as the jurisprudential understanding of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights regarding the issue of gender violence and protection of women's human rights. In the second moment, the theoretical references of Pierre Bourdieu, Gerda Lerner, Heleieth Saffioti will be used to base the forerunner structures of the patriarchy and legitimize male domination and from that will be explained the vehemence of these structures, that is, the violence. Finally, the third stage of this work will be focused on its central object, the practice of rape, which is often invisible because its practices are seen as a type of culture and mere acts of power, given its reflected in mechanisms historically diffused in the Brazilian social context.