O trabalho das promotoras legais populares no enfrentamento da violência contra a mulher

Abstract

The difficulties that many women face in breaking the cycle of violence in which they are inserted, as well as the lack of support on the part of the family or even the omission of the Public Power, are what have guided the work of Popular Legal Promoters (PLPs) in order to help the woman victim of violence to find a new alternative in her life, thus preventing her from entering a process of critical routes. Thus, it is justified to carry out this research, which aims to understand how the work of the Popular Legal Promoters in the community and public agencies, as well as to analyze the articulation of PLPs with the network of services to combat violence against women , in order to verify the effectiveness of this work in guaranteeing women's rights, in the light of the National Pact for Confronting Violence against Women. It is also sought to identify the profile of active PLPs in the Restinga region (age, income, gender, schooling, number of children, marital status). As for the methodological proposal, the qualitative research of a non-probabilistic approach was chosen from the historical-structural perspective, whose central theoretical categories are: totality, contradiction and historicity. A focus group was carried out with six PLPs that work in the Restinga community in the city of Porto Alegre / RS. The focal group was recorded and transcribed and the data were analyzed in Moraes (1999). The intention is to contribute with subsidies for the understanding of how PLPs work in the Restinga community and to qualify the articulation of PLPs with the service network in the community, to better serve women victims of violence. The results indicate that PLPs have been playing a substantial role in the network of assistance to women victims of violence. The need to expand services and intersectoral public policies that take into account the specific needs of women was highlighted, especially highlighting the specialized care network, essential for breaking the cycle of violence.