It's not difficult to find people saying that lately they only want to talk about LGBT rights. But data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) shows that Brazilian municipalities are far from unanimous in discussing actions for this community.
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According to the index released this Wednesday (26), only 7,7% of municipalities in Brazil developed specific policies to combat the exclusion and prejudice of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transvestites and transsexuals in 2014.
In other words, only 431 cities out of the 5,5 that exist pay attention to the LGBT population. The low number is only ahead of the group of gypsies, which received public policies from 192 municipalities. The number of policies for children and adolescents is what city halls are most concerned about, with 2 cities presenting projects.
Despite the low rates in municipal governments, state government initiatives achieve a higher rate for the LGBT population, with 25 states carrying out actions. Studies show that, regardless of the low numbers, there is an evolution in the issue of human rights at the state and municipal levels.
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After all, if in 2009 only 15,6% of municipalities had a management body for human rights issues, in 2014 the rate rose to 44,1%. The rate of exclusive secretariats on human rights also increased from 1,1% to 6,4%, from 2009 to 2014.
The numbers, which aim to analyze the various issues regarding human resources, communication, education, health, human rights, among others, were taken from the State Basic Information (Estadic 2013) and Municipal Basic Information (Munic 2014) surveys.
