Homeless Workers Movement. DHANA. Amefricanity. Collective Subject of Rights. Human Rights in "Pretuguês".

This dissertation is the result of research carried out on the practices and knowledge of the Coordinators of the Homeless Workers Movement (MTST) to promote the human right to adequate food and nutrition (DHANA). As a research locus, the MTST-DF Solidarity Kitchens were chosen, which are social technologies for distributing free lunches and carrying out community care activities. To this end, homeless women's perceptions of the influences of gender, race and class on the experience of hunger and their permeability in public policies to promote food and nutritional security were investigated. In this work, the MTST emerges as a collective subject of rights (SOUSA JUNIOR, 2011) and is represented by the social majority that is organized in the movement: black women, mothers, grandmothers, care workers, unemployed or informal workers. From the denial of material and immaterial assumptions for the enjoyment of a dignified life by peripheral black women, their organization and the social struggle to conquer them are endowed with the capacity to establish rights. Since there is a prevalence of hunger in families headed by black women and they are also consolidated as the front line of the aforementioned community initiative to combat it, it is proposed to observe the Afro-diasporic agency of these subjects in the construction of human rights, from the category of amefricanity by Lélia Gonzalez (1988) and the epistemological proposal of translating human rights into Portuguese by Thula Pires (2017). The point of arrival of this dissertation is the proposal to translate the human right to food and adequate nutrition into Portuguese based on the social protagonism of the MTST Coordinators in the Federal District.