Nenhuma a menos: a necropolítica de gênero, o feminicídio e a violação de direitos humanos na América Latina

Abstract

This study aims to determine the existence or not of a gender necropolitics behind femicide crimes committed in Latin America and their impact on the realization of human rights in the region. To do so, initially, we seek to understand the concepts of biopower, biopolitics, necropolitics and necropolitics of gender, as political-state techniques of social control. Then, the need for an intersectional assessment of gender violence in the region is discussed. Subsequently, the crime of feminicide is examined as a historical-cultural and political construction, analyzing the consequences of judicial impunity and the importance of classifying feminicide transgressions as a way of eradicating the consolidated gender hierarchy in Latin American states. Finally, we seek to understand, through the analysis of the report Violence and Discrimination against Women, Girls and Adolescents and the two annexes Main Norms and Recommendations and Impacts of Cases, published in 2019 by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) of the Organization of American States (OAS), the repercussions of the high rates of femicide for the effective consolidation of human rights in Latin America. Thus, a qualitative methodology is adopted, of a bibliographical nature, with descriptive-analytical analysis, with the use of results classified as pure, and with descriptive objectives. As a result, it is understood that, currently, a gender necropolitics is in effect in the Latin American region, directly responsible for the high rates of domestic and parastatal feminicides, mainly of racialized and peripheral women. It is concluded, therefore, that femicide transgression is part of a cycle of gender violence that intersects with other social markers of difference, requiring the development of specific public policies to prevent and repress these violations, also providing assistance to women. victims and their families.