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Brazil Lula advances child-support & gender‑violence reforms

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2026-07-30 23:12 UTC → 2026-07-30 23:13 UTC · added removed

In early July 2026 President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva enacted signed a law limiting restricting minors’ access to psychotropic drugs. On 29 July 2026 he signed enacted two further statutes. The first creates the “Pix Pensão” system, which automatically debits child‑support payments from the payer’s bank account via through the Central Bank’s Pix platform once a judicial order is issued. If the account lacks sufficient funds, platform; banks must block the debtor’s a payer’s assets until the debt is cleared. if funds are insufficient. The law covers formal and informal workers, micro‑entrepreneurs and individual businessmen, targeting roughly 650 000 pending cases, and tasks the National Justice Council with collecting will compile and publishing publish payment data. The legislation passed law, approved by the Chamber of Deputies in April 2025 and the Senate in early July 2025 and 2025, will take effect one year after its official publication. publication in the Official Gazette. The second statute expands mandatory advertising of the Ligue 180 hotline for reporting violence against women, requiring its display placing it in schools, hospitals, transport hubs and other high‑traffic venues. It is linked to venues, and reinforces the “Mulher Segura/Women Safe” initiative that strengthens broadens electronic monitoring of aggressors. Deputies Tabata Amaral and Camila Jara praised the measures as a major step to protect mothers and curb gender‑based violence. Both statutes measures are presented as part of Lula’s “Pacto Nacional contra o Feminicídio,” underscoring a broader agenda on health, family support and gender‑based violence.

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  1. 2026-07-30 23:13 UTC Brazil Lula advances child-support & gender‑violence reforms
  2. 2026-07-30 23:12 UTC Brazil Lula advances child-support & gender‑violence reforms
  3. 2026-07-30 14:57 UTC Brazil Lula advances child-support & gender‑violence reforms
  4. 2026-07-30 11:37 UTC Brazil Lula advances child-support & gender‑violence reforms
  5. 2026-07-30 11:36 UTC Brazil Lula advances social legislation
  6. 2026-07-30 02:08 UTC Brazil Lula signs new social legislation

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