- Source: Diploma Bertha Lutz
The Diploma Bertha Lutz (Bertha Lutz Diploma), also known as the Prêmio Bertha Lutz (Bertha Lutz Prize), was established by the Federal Senate of Brazil to recognize women who have made contributions to the defense of women's rights and gender issues in Brazil. It is named in honor of the Brazilian biologist and feminist leader Bertha Lutz.
The award was established by a 2001 resolution, based on an initial 1998 draft resolution presented by Senator Emília Fernandes. It is given annually during a special session of the Federal Senate as part of events for International Women's Day on March 8. Government entities or nongovernmental organizations can nominate candidates for the Diploma, and the nominations pass through the Board of the Federal Senate. The winners are selected by the Diploma Bertha Luz Council, composed of one representative from each political party within the Senate. The award traditionally recognized five women from different areas of expertise, although that number has increased in recent years.
Honorees
= 2002
=Luiza Erundina, federal deputy (PSB-SP);
Maria Berenice Dias, judge in Rio Grande do Sul;
Maria Isabel Lopes, municipal secretary of Fortaleza;
Heleieth Saffioti, sociologist and professor from São Paulo;
Herilda Balduíno de Sousa, lawyer from the Federal District
= 2003
=Emília Fernandes, Minister of the Special Secretariat of Policy for Women;
Raimunda Gomes da Silva, babassu nut breaker from Tocantins;
Nair Jane de Castro Lima, domestic worker in Rio de Janeiro and founder of one of the first workers' associations in her field;
Nazaré Gadelha, human rights lawyer in Acre;
Sueli Carneiro, Afro-Brazilian and feminist activist in São Paulo.
= 2004
=Eva Sopher, president of the São Pedro Theatre in Porto Alegre;
Maria Gleyde Martins Costa, of the State Council for the Defense of Women's Rights in Roraima;
Mônica Maria de Paula Barroso, who works as a public defender in Fortaleza;
Maria Aparecida Schumaher, of the Movement to Defend Women's Rights, in Rio de Janeiro;
Zuleika Alambert, feminist, writer, and politician active in Santos, São Paulo
= 2005
=Clara Charf, of the National Council for the Rights of Women;
Maria da Penha Maia Fernandes, pharmacist who fought for the conviction of her husband who tried to kill her, and who inspired the Lei Maria da Penha;
Palmerinda Donato, journalist;
Rozeli da Silva, street-sweeper, creator of the do Centro Infantil Renascer da Esperança to support children in need in Porto Alegre;
Zilda Arns, coordinator of Pastoral da Criança (Pastoral Care for Children)
= 2006
=Elizabeth Altino Teixeira, member of the peasant leagues in Paraíba;
Geraldina Pereira de Oliveira, rural worker from Pará;
Rosmary Corrêa, lawyer and state deputy from São Paulo;
Jupyra Barbosa Ghedini, federal civil servant;
Raimunda Putani, Indigenous pajé healer from Acre
= 2007
=Mãe Beata de Iemanjá, ialorixá from Rio de Janeiro;
Suely Batista dos Santos from Mato Grosso;
Moema Libera Viezzer (Paraná);
Maria Yvone Loureiro Ribeiro (Alagoas);
Ivana Farina Navarrete Pena (Goiás)
= 2008
=Alice Editha Klausz;
Maria dos Prazeres de Souza;
Jandira Feghali;
Mayana Zatz;
Rose Marie Muraro
= 2009
=Lily Marinho;
Sônia Maria Amaral Fernandes Ribeiro;
Elisa Lucinda Campos Gomes;
Neide Viana Castanha;
Cléa Anna Maria Carpi da Rocha;
Ruth Cardoso (in memoriam)
= 2010
=Leci Brandão da Silva;
Maria Augusta Tibiriçá Miranda;
Cleuza Pereira do Nascimento;
Andréa Maciel Pachá;
Clara Perelberg Steinberg;
Fani Lerner (in memoriam);
Maria Lygia de Borges Garcia (special honor)
= 2011
=Maria Liège Santos Rocha
Chloris Casagrande Justen, educator, participant in the State Council of Education of Paraná, and affiliate with the NGO Soroptimista, which aims to provide services to improve the lives of women. Vice president of the Academia Brasileira de Letras' Paraná branch;
Maria José da Silva, created the Residents Association of Conjunto Bento Ribeiro Dantas in Maré, in Rio de Janeiro, which works on socially inclusive recycling;
Maria Ruth Barreto Cavalcante, psychopedagogue who studied pedagogy in Cologne, Germany, in the 1960s and was imprisoned by the military for training groups of university students to teach children literacy skills;
Carmen Helena Ferreira Foro, first woman to become a manager in a trade union center in Brazil, as vice president of the Central Única dos Trabalhadores;
Ana Maria Pacheco de Vasconcelos (in memoriam)
= 2012
=Dilma Rousseff, first woman president of Brazil;
Maria Prestes, activist and widow of the communist leader Luís Carlos Prestes;
Eunice Michiles, first woman elected as a senator in the history of Brazil;
Rosali Scalabrin, representative of the Pastoral Land Commission;
Ana Alice da Costa, professor associated with the political science department of the Federal University of Bahia, creator of an interdisciplinary postgraduate program on women's studies known as NEIM
= 2013
=Jô Moraes, federal deputy;
Adélia Pessoa, educator;
Amabília Almeida and Telma Ayres, activists;
Luzia Santiago, missionary
= 2014
=Cristina Buarque, women's secretary of Pernambuco;
Delaíde Arantes, minister of the Superior Labour Court;
Magnólia Rocha, president of the Roraima League to Combat Cancer;
Zezé Rocha, former state deputy of Bahia;
Maria Lygia Maynard, president of the Associação de Pais e Amigos dos Deficientes Auditivos de Sergipe, an organization for supporters of the hearing impaired
= 2015
=Creuza Maria Oliveira
Cármen Lúcia
Clara Araújo
Mary Garcia Castro
Ivanilda Pinheiro Salucci
Maria Elizabeth Teixeira Rocha
Débora Martins Bonafé dos Santos (in memoriam)
= 2016
=This was the first year the award was given to a man, Marco Aurélio Mello.
Ellen Gracie Northfleet
Lucia Regina Antony
Luiza Helena de Bairros
Lya Luft
Marco Aurélio Mello
= 2017
=Denice Santiago
Diza Gonzaga
Isabel Cristina de Azevedo Heyvaert
Raimunda Luzia de Brito
Tatiane Bernardi Teixeira Pinto
= 2018
=The 26 female deputies who from 1987 and 1988 participated in the process that concluded in the Constitution of Brazil were honored.
Abigail Feitosa, in memoriam
Anna Maria Rattes
Benedita da Silva
Bete Mendes
Beth Azize
Cristina Tavares, in memoriam
Dirce Tutu Quadros, in memoriam
Eunice Michiles
Irma Passoni
Lídice da Mata
Lúcia Braga
Lúcia Vânia
Márcia Kubitschek, in memoriam
Maria de Lourdes Abadia
Maria Lúcia Melo de Araújo
Marluce Pinto
Moema São Thiago
Myriam Portella
Raquel Cândido
Raquel Capiberibe
Rita Camata
Rita Furtado, in memoriam
Rose de Freitas
Sadie Hauache
Sandra Cavalcanti
Wilma de Faria, in memoriam
= 2019
=There were 23 honorees this year, including judges, artists, artisans, activists, politicians, and professors:
Alzira Soriano, in memoriam
Ana Benedita de Serqueira e Silva
Bibi Ferreira, in memoriam
Delanira Pereira Gonçalves
Eudésia Vieira, in memoriam
Fabiane Maria de Jesus, in memoriam
Gabriela Manssur
Helena Heluy
Helena Meirelles, in memoriam
Heley de Abreu Silva Batista, in memoriam
Hermínia Maria Silveira Azoury
Iolanda Ferreira Lima
Iracy Ribeiro Mangueira Marques
Jaceguara Dantas da Silva
Laélia de Alcântara, in memoriam
Laissa Guerreira
Leide Moreira, in memoriam
Leiliane Silva
Marcia Abrahão Moura
Margarida Lemos Gonçalves, in memoriam
Maria Esther Bueno, in memoriam
Maria Lucia Fattorelli
Marielle Franco, in memoriam
= 2022
=In the Diploma Bertha Lutz's 20th anniversary year, after two years of interruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the award was given to 21 honorees:
Ana Lara Camargo de Castro
Andrea Gadelha
Angela Salazar
Eva Evangelista
Filomena Camilo do Vale
Flávia Arruda
Flávia Cintra
Heloísa Starling
Ilda Peliz
Inês Santiago
Jocilene Barbosa
Jurema Werneck
Luiza Trajano
Margareth Dalcolmo
Michelle Bolsonaro
Miracy Barbosa de Souza Gustin
Mônica Sifuentes
Renata Gil Alcantara
Rosa Geane
Ruth Almeida
Wilma de Faria, in memoriam
= 2023
=Ilona Szabó de Carvalho
Ilana Trombka
Nilza Valéria Zacarias
Rosa Weber
Rosângela Silva
Clara Filipa Camarão, in memoriam
Glória Maria, in memoriam
References
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- Diploma Bertha Lutz
- Bertha Lutz
- Denice Santiago
- Tati Bernardi
- Maria Prestes
- Maria Aparecida Schumaher
- Ilona Szabó de Carvalho
- Benedita da Silva
- Therezinha Zerbini
- Rosa Parks
