Monthly Archives: March 2020

On March 4th, CEPIA, represented by Jacqueline Pitanguy, had a conference call with the Swedish Institute and the women’s rights organization Kivinna til Kivinna to plan for the 2025 Beijing Conference in Paris and the activities that will be devel...

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On March 6th, CEPIA’s young team met to share the contents of the workshops they are developing on the theme of puberty and life skills, a term that had its origin in the publication of the guidelines of the World Health Organization’s Mental ...

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CEPIA attended various events that were held in Rio de Janeiro in celebration of  women’s day. In the adverse political context that we facing in Brazil, to be united and  occupy the streets to defend our rights and to resist to threats became even mo...

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On March 10th Jacqueline Pitanguy represented CEPIA at the Maternal Mortality Commission meeting held at the Municipal Health Department, to analyse  the rates and causes of maternal mortality in Rio de Janeiro and propose measures to guarantee safe preg...

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From February to March, CEPIA received a Danish student that joint our team. Janne, who is a student of Global Nutrition and Health at the University of Copenhagen, has been working with CEPIA’s team on issues related to puberty and sexual and repro...

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On March 13th, Kézia Santos, a member of CEPIA’s young team, held a workshop on Life Skills. The World Health Organization identified core cross-cultural like skills, which aim to help people respond effectively to the demands and challenges of eve...

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UN Women prepared a newsletter bringing some thoughts on how the Coronavirus Pandemia impacts women and men differently. The document is in Portuguese and can be downloaded here Gênero e Covid-19 na América Latina e no Caribe: dimensões de gênero na r...

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On March 31st Jacqueline Pitanguy was interviewed by UNISINOS ( University of Rio Grande do Sul) on the issue of domestic violence and the social isolation due to the corona virus and she pointed out that since 1986, with a national survey of our Bureau o...

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The Maria da Penha Law Consortium, aiming to contribute with the parliamentarians’ initiatives to confront violence against women during the Covid-19 world pandemic, prepared this Technical Note emphasizing the importance of the bills, analyzing the...

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Cepia launches today,  Youth’s Day, the “Manual of Ideas and Activities – Active Methodology for working with Adolescents and Youth” (Manual de Ideias e Atividades – Metodologia Ativa para trabalhar com Adolescentes e Jovens...

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The IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation) is organizing a series of conversations entitled  Dialogues of Exchange and Knowledge. On April 13, Jacqueline Pitanguy, assisted at the presentation of the economist Monica de Bolle coordinated by G...

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In the second week of April, CEPIA, in partnership with the collective Mulheres de Frente and the international organization @ Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP), started a cycle of 5 meetings, called Virtual Conversation Among Women. The workshop a...

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On April 24, it will begin the trial by the Supreme Federal Court, STF, of Action 5581 (ADI 5581) filed by the National Association of Public Defenders, in which CEPIA is Amicus Curiae. The Action demands protection and social benefits to pregnant women i...

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Women’s Learning Partnership will held the webinar Women Leading with Courage in Times of Crisis. The event will take place on April 28th, at 12h, Brazil time.  Among the speakers are women from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and the US th...

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The Gender, Race and Ethnicity Research Group – NUPEGRE, of the Rio de Janeiro State Magistrates’ School (EMERJ) launched the booklet “Covid 19 Lockdown without Violence” so that women have no doubts about their rights at this time...

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