The Permanent Forum on Family and Gender Violence; the Gender, Race and Ethnicity Research Center of the Rio de Janeiro State School of Magistrates – EMERJ (NUPEGRE); the State Coordination of Women in Situations of Domestic and Family Violence (COEM); the Committee for the Promotion of Gender Equality in Support of Women Magistrates and Servants and for the Prevention and Confrontation of Harassment and Discrimination of the Rio de Janeiro State Court of Justice (Cogen); the Permanent Forum on Human Rights and the Permanent Forum on Anti-Discrimination Law and Sexual Diversity, held the Gender Equality and Female Empowerment Seminar on March 8th, in honor of International Women’s Day and the 30th anniversary of the Belém do Pará Convention.

The Virtual Booklet: Protect Yourself! Cyber Violence against Women produced by COEM/NUPEGRE/COGEN). Leila Linhares Barsted, a member of the Forum on Domestic, Family and Gender Violence, accompanied the seminar.