Black woman and access to justice

an analysis of effective laws in guaranteeing their rights

Abstract

First, the advancement of access to justice for the Brazilian population will be addressed, especially for black women, who are at an intersection of marginalized groups and suffer from both machismo and the structural racism of society. The guarantee of access to justice, although formally provided for since the 1946 Constitution, sometimes does not reach the whole of society, either due to socioeconomic inequality or lack of legislative initiatives to resolve such inequalities. In this article, we studied the legislative advances approved since the Federal Constitution of 88, namely: Consumer Protection Code, the Special Courts Law, the Civil Procedure Code of 2015 and the Maria da Penha Law (Law nº 11.340 /2006); and how these laws changed women's lives. The interviews with black and white women, the latter as a control, sought to extract from the concrete experience how the black female population accesses their rights.