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Attacks on women’s ministries are a threat to democracy

Women’s ministries in Brazil and elsewhere have been under attack from the Right for years – foreshadowing wider threats to democracy

By Gillian Kane
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Jair Bolsonaro is poised to become Brazil’s next president | Fábio Rodrigues Pozzebom/Agência Brasil/Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0. Some rights reserved

In February 2016, a few months after Brazil’s only female president, Dilma Rousseff, was impeached, the country’s newly installed interim government under President Michel Temer issued one of its first directives.

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