Monthly Archives: August 2023

TV Camara, celebrating the 35th anniversary of the 1988 Brazilian Constitution, is hosting a series of programs about the struggles and achievements of our Magna Carta. On August 17, Constituent Deputy Moema Toscano and Jacqueline Pitanguy, former Preside...

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Cepia attended a 2 days meeting hosted by the organization Onda Solidária in articulation with EMpower. The meeting took place from August 18th to 20th and gathered representatives of 9 organizations in Rio de Janeiro that work to promote the protagonism...

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CEPIA was present at the closing session of the capacity-building process in planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning (PMEL) for EMpower’s partner organizations in Latin America, which took place on August 23rd. EMpower is an international foun...

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Enough of playing ostrich is the title of an article by Jacqueline Pitanguy, published in Veja magazine on August 25, 1993. Defending the need to discuss abortion within the framework of a secular and plural State, which respected both the right not to ha...

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On August the 28th, UN Women held a seminar on Women’s safety and access to affordable and gender-responsive housing: experiences in Latin America, focusing on the lack of housing for women and unemployment, which have been identified as mechanisms ...

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TV Brasil interviewed Jacqueline Pitanguy on the Repórter Brasil Program on August 29 about the orphans of femicide. Jacqueline highlighted the double orphanhood of the secondary victims of this crime, because when the murder of the mother is perpetrated...

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On August 30th, the Brazilian Press Association (ABI), UN Women and CEPIA held the event 48 Years of Feminist Boldness: Echoes of the 1975 UN-ABI Seminar at the ABI Auditorium, which was attended by ABI President Octavio Costa, ABI Women and LBTQIA+ Direc...

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The National Council of Justice, CNJ, promoted the event Women in Justice New Directions of Resolution CNJ 255, coordinated by Counselor Salise Sanchotene, in which the judges presented several initiatives developed in working groups aimed at promoting th...

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On August 31st, the Inter-American Commission of Women – CIM, MESECVI and UN Women organized the virtual event Strategic litigation in cases of violence against women in public and political life: Experiences from Latin America, designed to present ...

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On August the 31st, the Ministry of Women, Gender Policies and Sexual Diversity of the province of Buenos Aires organized the III Congress State Present Political Violence and Gender: Challenges of Democracy. Participating in the panel Political Violence ...

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On September 4th, the Brazilian Lawyers Institute (IAB) and its Women’s Rights Commission held the  ADPF 442 Seminar at the Supreme Court – A necessary discussion to debate the decriminalization of voluntary abortion.  The seminar, held in ...

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On September 5th there was the second meeting of the Antiracism Working Group of the OTRT initiative, which takes place monthly, in which CEPIA participates represented by Mariana Barsted and Leila Linhares Barsted. This meeting was attended by various La...

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On September 5th, the Latin American Dialogues for Democracy and Women’s Human Rights meeting took place, an initiative of CEPIA in partnership with the international network Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP). The proposal is to broaden the d...

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Branca Moreira Alves and Jacqueline Pitanguy published the article “What is the role of memory?” in the magazine Parênthesis.  The article talks about the role of memories and struggles for women’s rights, in which they highlight that reports ...

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On September 8th, more than 20 civil society organizations from Latin America participated in a series of hearings with the Committee of Experts of the Follow-up Mechanism to the Belém do Pará Convention (CEVI/MESECVI). During the hearings, held virtual...

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