Monthly Archives: June 2020

The Federal Women’s Health Commission was exonerated by the Minister of Health due to a Technical Note issued by this Commission defending that the sexual and reproductive rights and services already guaranteed by law be guaranteed during the Covid-...

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June 12 marks the worldwide campaign against child and adolescent labor,. Sexual exploitation, understood as the use of child and adolescer to sexual practices with profit purposes,  is considered one of the worse forms of child labor. Child Sexual explo...

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Leila Linhares Barsted (CEPIA) was interviewed by Revista Poli, in the edition of Nº. 69 – mar./abr. 2020, from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, on violence against women and the emergence of Specialized Police Offices for Women (DEAMs). Leila made a retro...

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Women’s Learning Partnership, a network of 20 autonomous organizations, including CEPIA,  invites you to the online screening of its newest film, It’s Up to Us. Around the world people are facing unprecedented challenges to their health, secu...

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GEA, the Abortion Study Group, which brings together doctors, health professionals, civil society , including CEPIA, and scientific and academic societies,  will held the  virtual meeting Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights during COVID-19. The meetin...

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On June 16th, Leila Linhares Barsted (CEPIA) participated in the Women’s Security Commission’s meeting, which occurred at the State Council for Women’s Rights – CEDIM, where the situation of health care services for women victims o...

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UN WOMEN organized, on June 17th, a virtual consultation with a group of former and current advisors to present and gather suggestions for its Strategic Plan, in view of the many challenges faced by Brazilian women in the current social and political junc...

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On June 18th, the Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV DIREITO RIO), the Regional Electoral Attorney of the State of Rio de Janeiro and the Fluminense Forum More Women in Politics invited the candidates from the State of Rio de Janeiro to debate the context ele...

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Members of Maternal Mortality Committees from different regions of the country mobilize and prepare a Manifesto against the dismantling of the technical area of ​​women’s health and the sexual and reproductive health policies of the Ministry of ...

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Brazilian women have full rights to access sexual and reproductive health services that include access to contraception, treatment of sexually transmitted infections and to terminate pregnancy in cases of life-threatening rape and anencephalic fetus. Howe...

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On June, 23rd, an article on the Shared Custody in Times of Covid-19 was published in the electronic journal Justifying – minds that think Law, written by lawyers Leila Linhares Barsted and Mariana Barsted, from CEPIA. The article brings a retrospec...

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REBRAPD (Brazilian Population and Development Network), in partnership with CEPIA, is organizing the virtual public debates “Beijing + 25 Brazil Platform: gender, women’s voice and SDGs in the context of COVID-19”. In the 25 years since Beijing ...

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On June 23, the 4th meeting of the Working Group involved in the revision of the Municipal Plan to Combat Sexual Violence against Children and Adolescents took place. This was the first online meeting of the Group and its main objectives were the presenta...

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Throughout the months of May and June, FEPETI / RJ (State Forum to Prevent Child Labor and to Protect the Adolescent Worker) maintained its schedule of monthly meetings. The meetings took place virtually on May 28 and June 26, respectively. Both meetings ...

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CEPIA is organizing the event Online Dialogues: mulheres, violences and vulnerabilities in times of Covid-19. The event will have the participation of Sônia Correa, researcher in gender studies and Marisa Chaves, Coordinator of the Reference Center for W...

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