Damares Alves
Brazilian attorney and evangelical pastor (born 1964)
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- Damares Regina Alves (born March 11, 1964) is a Brazilian lawyer and evangelical pastor.
- She is the second female minister appointed to the new government as of December 2018.
- Alves defends the prohibition of abortion after rape and in risk pregnancies, women trafficking, supports legislation forcing schools and hospitals to report attempts at suicide, the prohibition of juvenile self-harming and drug consumption, which she said include taking hormone blockers.
- As a child, she lived in Bahia, in Alagoas and Sergipe.
- These moves are strictly linked to her father's profession, as he was the pastor Henrique Alves Sobrinho, from the "Quadrangular" Gospel Church - the Foursquare Gospel Church.
Damares Regina Alves (born March 11, 1964) is a Brazilian lawyer and evangelical pastor.
Overview
Alves was the Minister of Women, Families, and Human Rights during the Presidency of Jair Bolsonaro from 2019 to 2022. She is the second female minister appointed to the new government as of December 2018. In the 2022 election, Damares was elected Senator for the Federal District.
Alves defends the prohibition of abortion after rape and in risk pregnancies, women trafficking, supports legislation forcing schools and hospitals to report attempts at suicide, the prohibition of juvenile self-harming and drug consumption, which she said include taking hormone blockers. She declared that she is engaged directly in the "preparation of youth for the Fourth Industrial Revolution" and intended to consolidate an agenda between different ministries of the Federal Government capable of integrating programs, policies, projects and initiatives under the same, articulated perspective of impact - modernizing education.
Biography
Born in Paraná in 1964, daughter of northeastern parents, Alves migrated to the northeast with her family. As a child, she lived in Bahia, in Alagoas and Sergipe. She also lived in São Carlos in the São Paulo state. These moves are strictly linked to her father's profession, as he was the pastor Henrique Alves Sobrinho, from the "Quadrangular" Gospel Church - the Foursquare Gospel Church.
She studied pedagogy at the Faculdade Pio X in Aracaju and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1986. She then studied law at the Faculdades Integradas de São Carlos and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in 1992.
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