Bioproteção: o princípio da proteção a vítimas e testemunhas, uma questão ética e de dignidade da pessoa humana

Abstract

This article aims to reframe the concept of “Bioprotection” based on the daily practices of Protection for Victims and Witnesses in Brazil, in an ethical perspective of the dignity of the human person. We present a brief history of protection in Brazil, contextualizing our problem in the daily life of protection for threatened people. Subjects-in-Protection adopt tactics and strategies for the exercise of citizenship, which are understood as micro-resistances and micro-freedoms. The Protection Principle as a starting point for a protective ethics enables the apprehension of the dimensions of Human Dignity - political, ontological, legal, cultural, ethical, and biological - which make up the tripod of Bioprotection. The daily practice of protection, with its tactics and strategies, of the subject-in-protection for the exercise of citizenship, even in a regulated way, allows us to reflect on the context in which people live in a special condition of existence. In the context of PROVITA’s protective action, Bioprotection, a new concept within the scope of witness protection, is understood as a protection beyond the testimonial evidence, but to the life of the protégé in all its dimensions