Damares Alves

Damares Regina Alves is a Brazilian attorney and evangelical pastor. She has been Minister of Human Rights, Family and Women in the Presidency of Jair Bolsonaro. She is the second female minister appointed to the new government as of December 2018. Damares is concerned about issues such as abortion, women trafficking, suicide, juvenile self-harming, and combatting drugs. Alves is engaged directly in the preparation of youth for the Fourth Industrial Revolution and intends to consolidate a pactuated 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.