Monthly Archives: February 2023

Cepia, a civil society organization committed to the defense of democracy and human rights, expresses its deepest repudiation of the terrorist acts perpetrated by extreme right-wing criminals who attacked the democratic state of law on January 8. The  Su...

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In an interview published in the Diário de Pernambuco, on January 15th, entitled Feminicide: eight years after the law was approved, cases increase, Leila Linhares Barsted affirms that feminicide is a serious social phenomenon. “The rate of violenc...

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On January 16th , the Maria da Penha Law Consortium met with several feminist organizations and networks to present and debate the initial report of its work toward the elaboration of a proposal for a General Law on Gender Violence for Brazil. In the occa...

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On January 18, the third meeting of the Community of Practice promoted by EMpower and  Tinker in conjunction with Alvaralice  and Empujar was held. This third meeting had as its central focus the strengthening of institutional capacities to carry o...

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The Elas + Fund promoted, from January 17th to 19th, the XII Sexual Autonomy Dialogue on Reproductive Justice in Brazil, which brought together several women’s organizations and feminist networks supported by the Fund to debate and draw strategies f...

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The Women’s Safety Commission of the State Council of Women’s Rights met on January 24th to discuss the status of public policies aimed at women’s safety. Leila Linhares Barsted, member of this Commission, attended this meeting.

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On January 26, the first meeting of the year was held by the Collegiate Coordination of the State Forum for the Prevention and Eradication of Child Labor and Protection of Adolescent Workers (FEPETI/RJ). The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the Actio...

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The Maria da Penha Law Consortium met in Brasilia on January 26th to 27th to continue its efforts to advance legislative and public policies and to continue the work to draft a General Law on Gender Violence against Women. On January 27th, the Consortium ...

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Chile’s Permanent Foreign Policy Forum held a dialogue on the political situation in Brazil and the criminal acts of vandalism on January 8. The dialogue had the participation of Eduardo Viola, a professor at the University of Brasília, and Jacquel...

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The Committee of Experts – CEVI of the Monitoring Mechanism of the Inter-American Convention on Violence against Women – MESECVI met on January 31st to organize the official visit of the Committee to Argentina in view of the acts of gender pol...

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On January 30th and 31st, the Brazilian NGOs that are part of the regional initiative of the Fòs Feminista Alliance for reproductive justice met at the Casa das Mulheres da Maré to evaluate the activities carried out in 2022 and build the work plan for ...

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CEPIA, represented by Mariana Barsted, Karla Oldane and Jacqueline Pitanguy, attended the Dialogues on Reproductive Justice and Unconstitutional State of Things in Brazil with the presence of Iris Marín Ortiz (assistant judge of the Colombian Constitutio...

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On February 7th, CEPIA held the workshop  “Body and sexuality”  for adolescents and young people from RAP da Saúde, an initiative of the Municipal Health Department of Rio de Janeiro. Through dynamics and exchange of experiences, subjects that perv...

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The School As Pensadoras offers training in feminism. Jacqueline Pitanguy spoke at the inaugural lecture titled Feminisms and Women: Utopias and Dystopias for another Brazil  of the 3rd edition of the course Improvement in Feminisms. The class took place...

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The fourth meeting of the Community of Practice promoted by EMpower and  Tinker along with  Alvaralice  and Empujar  NGOs was held on February 8th, bringing together organizations from several Latin American countries that develop programs aimed at ...

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