From May 20th to 22nd, CEPIA, together with various feminist and anti-racist organizations – Onda Verde (Green Wave), which also work as part of the group Sexual Autonomy, supported by the Elas+ Fund, participated, represented by Mariana Barsted, in an event in Brasilia, in the Chamber of Deputies, talking to deputies who are fighting for the right of women, girls and people who are pregnant to have the right to legal abortion, provided for in the Brazilian Penal Code.
Data revealed by the Report sent to the 88th Session of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) shows that in the last 10 years, the average number of births to girls under the age of 14 has been more than 20,000 a year, 74.2% of them black. In 2023, the number of rapes of vulnerable people reached 36.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants (according to data from the Brazilian Public Security Yearbook).
The conversation with the deputies addressed the importance of discussing reproductive justice and its relationship with climate justice, especially from the emergency context that is occurring in the southern region of Brazil, where women and girls have suffered, in addition to the tragedy that the entire population of this region has suffered, they are still subject to violence, rape, sexual abuse and femicide.
