The people must not pay with their own lives!

We, the signatory entities of the Pact for Life and for Brazil, under the weight of sorrow and with a sense of utmost urgency, address Brazilian society once again, in light of the worsening of the pandemic and its consequences. Our first word is one of solidarity with the families who have lost loved ones.

There is no time to lose, negationism kills. The virus is spreading from north to south of Brazil, replicating variants, affecting different age groups, a punishing the most vulnerable. Patients die in agony due to the lack of hospital resources. The Unified Health System – SUS continues to save lives. However, health professionals, after a year on the front lines, are on the verge of burnout. To them, we offer our gratitude and appreciation.

It is time to stop the escalation of death! The Brazilian population needs a vaccine now. The virus will not go away through obscurantism, angry speeches, or offensive statements. Enough of this foolishness and irresponsibility. In addition to the need for a vaccine now and for everyone, Brazil urgently needs the Ministry of Health to fulfill its role as an effective fomenter of health policies at a national level, ensuring quick access to medication and tests that are endorsed by science, the constant traceability of the virus, and a minimum of peace to the people.

The inefficiency of the Federal Government, primarily responsible for the tragedy we are living through, is notorious. Governors and mayors cannot assume the role of accomplices of this total disregard for life. Thus, we support their efforts to ensure compliance with the list of sanitary protection measures, in parallel to the rapid and consistent immunization of the population. May governors and mayors act with eyes not only on their states and municipalities but on the whole country, through a great pact. We are one single Brazil.

We urge the National Congress to give top priority to matters related to the fight against COVID-19, since preserving lives is the most urgent job. In this sense, the dignified emergency aid with the provision of stimulus checks, and for as long as necessary, will be indispensable to save lives and boost the economy. To the Judiciary branch, under the leadership of the Federal Supreme Court, we request that it must look after the rights of citizens and the harmony among the federative entities. May the press act freely, vigorously, and ethically, fulfilling its mission to transmit reliable and scientifically based information about what is going on in our country. Finally, may the voice of the institutions sound very strong in defense of the Brazilian people!

We also make a special appeal to the youth. The virus is infecting and killing the young and healthy, using them as vectors of transmission. Let the Brazilian youth assume their historical protagonism in defense of life and of our country, unraveling the negationism that promotes death.

We know that the path is challenging, the opportunity to rebuild Brazilian society is unparalleled, and hope is the light that will guide us towards a new era.

Dom Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo, president of the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil – CNBB

Felipe Santa Cruz, president of the Brazilian Bar Association - OAB

José Carlos Dias, president of the Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns Commission for the Defense of Human Rights – Arns Commission

Luiz Davidovich, president of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences - ABC

Paulo Jeronimo de Sousa, president of the Brazilian Press Association – ABI

Ildeu de Castro Moreira, president of the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science – SBPC

Supporting Organizations

Pernambuco Academy of Science (APC)

Brazilian Lesbian Articulation (ABL)

Brazilian Association of Groundwater (Abas)

Brazilian Association of Anthropology (ABA)

Brazilian Association of Ecological Science and Conservation (Abeco)

Brazilian Association of Pharmaceutical Sciences (ABCF)

Brazilian Association of Scientific Editors (Abec Brasil)

Brazilian Association of Music Education (Abem)

Brazilian Association of Biology Teaching (SBenBio)

Brazilian Association of Dental Education (Abeno)

Brazilian Association of Defense Studies (Abed)

Brazilian Association of Population Studies (Abep)

Brazilian Association for Social Studies of Sciences and Technologies (Esocite.BR)

Brazilian Association of Ethnomusicology (Abet)

Brazilian Association of Limnology (ABLimno)

Brazilian Association of Linguistics (Abralin)

Brazilian Association of Comparative Literature (Abralic)

Brazilian Association of Mutagenesis and Environmental Genomics (MutaGen-Brasil)

Brazilian Association for Research in Science Education (Abrapec)

Brazilian Association of Researchers in Journalism (SBPJor)

Brazilian Association of School and Educational Psychology (Abrapee)

Brazilian Association of Social Psychology (Abrapso)

Brazilian Association of Applied Linguistics (Alab)

Association of Brazilian Geographers (AGB)

Association of Servers of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Minas Gerais (Asfoc)

National Association for Teaching and Research in the Public Policy Field (ANEPCP)

National Association of History (ANPUH)

National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Architecture and Urbanism (ANPARQ)

National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Psychology (ANPEPP)

National Association of Research and Graduate Studies in Tourism (ANPTUR)

National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Social Sciences (Anpocs)

National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Education (Anped)

National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Geography (Anpege)

National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Urban and Regional Planning (Anpur)

National Association of Graduate Programs in Communication (ComPós)

Brazilian Purine Club (CBP)

Brazilian College of Sports Sciences (CBCE)

Coletivo Mulherau

National Confederation of Education Workers (CNTE)

Brazilian Federation of Scientific and Academic Communication Associations (SocicomM)

National Forum for Black Travestis and Transsexuals (Fonatrans)

Research Group GPDHTS

Institute of Socioeconomic Studies (Inesc)

Institute of Architects of Brazil (IAB)

Sedes Sapientiae Institute

Brazilian Lesbian League

Cerrado Museum

Graduate Program in Social Communication (PPGCOM – Federal University of Minas Gerais)

Imagine Project of the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC)

Brazilian Semi-arid Education Network (Resab)

National Network of Black LGBT Persons in Brazil

National LGBT Secretariat of the Workers’ Party

Union of Teachers of the Federal Universities of the State of Ceará

National Union of Public Administrators (SindGCT)

Brazilian Astronomical Society (SAB)

Brazilian Society of Biophysics (SBBf)

Brazilian Society of Cell Biology (SBBC)

Brazilian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (SBBq)

Brazilian Computer Society (SBC)

Brazilian Society of Ecological Economics (Ecoeco)

Brazilian Society of Ecotoxicology (Ecotox Brasil)

Brazilian Society of Mathematics Education (SBEM-Nacional)

Brazilian Society of Electromagnetism (SBMAG)

Brazilian Society of Biomedical Engineering (SBEB)

Brazilian Society of Classical Studies (SBEC)

Brazilian Society of Interdisciplinary Communication Studies (Intercom)

Brazilian Society of Ethnobiology and Ethnoecology (SBEE)

Brazilian Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (SBFTE)

Brazilian Society of Physics (SBF)

Brazilian Society of Genetics (SBG)

Brazilian Society of Geology (SBGeo)

Brazilian Society of Applied and Computational Mathematics (SBMAC)

Brazilian Society of Microbiology (SBMicro)

Brazilian Society of Microelectronics (SBMicro)

Brazilian Society of Neurosciences and Behavior (SBNec)

Brazilian Society of Ornithology (SBO)

Brazilian Society of Optics and Photonics (SBFoton)

Brazilian Society of Protozoology (SBPz)

Brazilian Society of Psychology (SBP)

Brazilian Society of Chemistry (SBQ)

Brazilian Society of Telecommunications (SBrT)

Brazilian Society of Virology (SBV)

Brazilian Society of Zoology (SBZ)

Brazilian Archeological Society

Latin Union for Political Economy of Information, Communication and Culture (Ulepicc-Brazil)

National Union of Students (UNE)

Federal Fluminense University