The launch of the “Emergency plan to protect quilombola women who defend human rights”, with 85 pages, marked the first day of the national meeting with more than 500 women from traditional communities from across the country.  The third edition of the event is held in the administrative region of Gama (DF) until next Sunday (14). The meeting celebrates 30 years of the National Coordination for the Articulation of Black Rural Quilombola Communities (Conaq). Related news: Landmarks help protect quilombola communities. Government creates General Register of Quilombola Communities. One of the points mentioned in the emergency plan is the need for effective public policies. The document presented lists demands to be met by the different levels of power. The entity calls for guarantees of collective and territorial protection, analyzes related to gender and race, social rights and infrastructure, valorization of quilombola knowledge and practices, overcoming structural flaws in security programs and strengthening multidisciplinary support teams with rapid responses to risks they face. According to the coordinator of the Women's Collective and political coordinator at Conaq, Selma Dealdina, the plan seeks to respond directly to the worsening of agrarian and environmental conflicts that make national female quilombola leaders vulnerable.  The initiative foresees practical developments in the short term, including the publication of a pedagogical booklet and the structuring of integrated training aimed at the articulation and political influence of these women. Film In addition to the plan, the event showed the documentary film Cafuné, which shows the tension experienced by threatened community leaders and the impact of the deaths of women, such as Mãe Bernadete, murdered in August 2023.  Made on the initiative of Conaq, the film directed by Gabriela Barreto, Maryellen Crisóstomo and Nathália Purificação is part of the project to be handed over to authorities.  According to Conaq's executive coordinator, Sandra Braga, the national meeting aims to share the pains, struggles and ideas of women in their communities. “Strengthening territories, our ancestry and everything we represent”, he stated.  On this first day of the event, journalist Maria Júlia Coutinho was invited to talk to quilombola leaders about communication. She highlighted that the communities' way of life must be celebrated. "The quilombo is also a place where joy is created. Not a naive joy, which ignores quilombola problems, but a joy that moves us forward, towards transformation." Climate justice According to the organizers, the event's motto "Quilombola Women defending climate justice, reparation and democracy" seeks to translate the need for resistance and ancestry in the protection of national biomes. For Conaq, it is necessary to unify strategies against the impacts of climate change in traditional territories. The event also guarantees space for family farmers, root healers, faith healers and midwives from different regions. The idea was to create a representation of the diversity of products from the biomes.  "Within the territories, women lead production. Whether in family farming, traditional medicine, handicrafts or flour, each state brings a unique identity determined by its biome", stated the coordinator of the Conaq Women's Collective, Cida Souza.