(4 Oct 2024)
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Niteroi, Brazil – 28 September 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Eleonore Hughes, The Associated Press:
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“In Brazil’s local election this year more trans candidates than ever are running for office, that is despite the risk of prejudice and violence they face, in a country that kills more candidates than ever. Benny Briolly is one of them."
2. Various of transgender city councilwoman candidate Benny Briolly campaigning on the streets of a favela with a group of supporters holding flags
3. SOUNDBITE (Portuguese) Benny Briolly, transgender city councilwoman and candidate:
“I’ve received more than 700 death threats. I have four investigations. I have a court decision here in Brazil and a precautionary order from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which asks for my safety because it understands today that I am at risk.”
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Eleonore Hughes, The Associated Press:
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“Activists and experts say the political representation is essential to push for greater inclusion of transpeople in Brazilian society, from which they remain largely marginalized.”
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STORYLINE:
Benny Briolly beamed as she strode through the concrete favela alleyways of Brazil’s city of Niteroi in a snow-white ball gown, onlookers proudly waving campaign flags emblazoned with her face.
The city councilwoman and nearly 1,000 other transgender politicians are running Sunday in every one of Brazil’s 26 states, where the number of transgender politicians has tripled since the last elections four years ago.
Briolly proudly campaigns and talks to residents in an attempt to promote momentous social change that, unfortunately, is accompanied by violence in Latin America’s most populous nation.
Briolly, who is running for a second city council term in Niteroi, has received more than 700 death threats but agrees there’s an element of joy in playing an active role in politics, even amid the threats.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights says some of the threats have included her home address and pledged she would suffer the same fate as city councilwoman Marielle Franco, a champion for LGBTQ+ rights who was gunned down in 2018.
Transgender Europe, a network of global non-profits, says more trans people were murdered in Brazil last year than in any other country in the world.
AP Video shot by Diarlei Rodrigues
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