Monthly Archives: May 2023

The English newspaper The Guardian published an article about women’s football and the barriers faced by players due to prejudice. Jacqueline Pitanguy was interviewed and highlighted the weight of the patriarchal culture that still pervades football...

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On July 27, CEPIA received representatives from the  RAP da Saúde Program, an initiative from the Rio de Janeiro Health Department engaging youth on health promotion. The meeting took place at CEPIA’s headquarters and it aimed to plan a series of ...

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As of August, the Federal Supreme Court (STF) will be able to vote on a fundamental agenda for advancing the decriminalization of abortion in Brazil. ADPF 442 requests that abortion performed by pregnant woman’s will cease to be considered a crime u...

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Throughout the month of July, the Youth, Reproductive Rights and Citizenship Course continued, a partnership between CEPIA and Ríos Rivers, an organization dedicated to advancing reproductive justice in Latin America. The themes of the four classes devel...

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On August 2nd, the Women’s Safety Commission of the State Council for Women’s Rights (CEDIM/RJ) held a meeting to discuss public policies aimed at women’s safety, with the presence of the Rio de Janeiro State Secretary for Women’s ...

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On August 3rd, 11th and 21st, Leila Linhares Barsted and Karla Oldane took part in meetings promoted by the group Sexual Autonomy, which brings together various Brazilian feminist organizations in defense of the decriminalization of abortion with a view t...

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From August 3rd to 5th, it took place the 2023 edition of the Training of Trainers (TOT), a join initiative of CEPIA along with Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP). At this edition  of the TOT we gathered women from various parts of Brazil, along wi...

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On August 9th, CEPIA team, represented by Kézia Sampaio, together with RAP da Saúde team ( a Program from the Health Department engaging youth on  health promotion initiatives) , went to Baden Powell Municipal Public High School in Guadalupe, to presen...

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On August 10th and 11th, the course “The rights of care for a sustainable life: the right to care and the right to receive care as basic human rights. A proposal for governance in Europe and Latin America to combat inequalities”, given by Prof...

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The Rio de Janeiro School of Magistrates, EMERJ, is promoting the Gender and Law Postgraduate Course, which is in its fourth edition and brings the gender dimension into the legal field. The course is coordinated by judge Adriana Ramos de Mello. The inaug...

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Fantástico, a TV Globo program, celebrates 50 years since its first edition in 1973. On Sunday, August 13, Jacqueline Pitanguy was interviewed on topics related to women’s rights and issues of morals and customs that marked the 1980s, such as the r...

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On the 14th, CEPIA and the Partiu Papo Reto team began the Empodera e Multiplica cycle of workshops, which aims to awaken the autonomy and protagonism of youth through training workshops, so that they can develop leadership skills and become multiplier pr...

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On August 14th and 15th, the Meetings on Contemporary Legal Feminism Brazil-Spain: challenges of contemporary legal feminism: context, reflections and proposals to fight inequalities in Brazil and Spain, took place at the Postgraduate Law School of the Fe...

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CEPIA, represented by Débora Pinheiro, was present at the Marcha das Margaridas, which took place in Brasília between the 15th and 16th of August, gathering more than 100 thousand people. The March is a demonstration/act that takes place every 4 years t...

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The government of President Lula da Silva is committed to recreating the National Commission for Population and Development, CNPD, an important body with equal representation of civil society and the government and which will advise the government and mon...

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