Monthly Archives: June 2024

On August 29th, another cycle of workshops began with students from Baden Powell Public Municipal School “Partiu Papo Reto: a journey of awareness and safety”. This first meeting, out of six,  aimed to get to know the group and to exchange ideas abou...

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In celebration of Amazon Day, on September 5th, FASE held a seminar and the launch of the book Food Cultures: a study of Amazonian communities, supported by the Amazon Fund, administered by the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES). Le...

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Ahead of the Summit of the Future, a United Nations event at the end of September that brings together world leaders at the UN/NY headquarters to define a new international consensus on how to provide a better present and preserve the future, Fòs Feminis...

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The National Forum of Judges of Domestic and Family Violence against Women (Fonavid), the Permanent Commission to Combat Domestic and Family Violence against Women (Copevid, of the Public Prosecutor’s Office) and the Commission for the Promotion and...

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The International Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo in September 1994, was a milestone in the defense of human rights, especially those of women. On that occasion, 179 countries committed to guaranteeing reproductive health, gender e...

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On September 17th, CEPIA, through its Partiu Papo Reto program, began a new cycle of workshops at the Orlando Villas Boas Public Municipal School “(Re)cognizing violence to prevent and confront it”. In this first out of five meetings, the topic of Lif...

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On September 18th it took place the monthly meetings of  Fòs Feminist partners in Latin America and the Caribbean. The agenda of the meeting included an update about the Brazilian context regarding the closure of Hospital Cachoeirinha in São Paulo, the...

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On September 20th, the 55th Subsection of the Rio de Janeiro Chapter of the Brazilian Bar Association, with its Permanent Women’s Commission, held the 1st edition of the Women in the Spotlight/2024 event, which recognizes the fundamental representat...

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On September 23rd, the Maria da Penha Law Consortium held an online meeting with various feminist organizations to present and debate the first draft of the proposed General Law on Gender Violence against Women. The meeting, coordinated by Leticia Ferreir...

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On September 24th, the Women’s Commission of the Brazilian Lawyers Institute (IAB) held the Gender Lawfare Seminar. The speakers were lawyers Leila Linhares Barsted, representing CEPIA, and Soraia Mendes. The aim of this event was to debate the effe...

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On September 25th, CEPIA, represented by Leila Linhares Barsted and Mariana Barsted, participated in the event Gender, Intersectionalities and Safe Cities, organized by Julia Poletine, founder of the NGO I Want to Tell, which offers a safe space for survi...

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The ordinary meeting of FEPETI/RJ (RJ State Forum to Eradicate Child Labor and to Protect the Adolescent Workers) was held on September 26th, with representatives from governments of several municipalities in the State of Rio de Janeiro, in addition to th...

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CEPIA and Catholics for Choice/Brazil took the initiative of inviting a group of Brazilian experts from various backgrounds with long experience in defending reproductive rights, the secularity of the State and democratic principles, to unite in defense o...

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CEPIA received a visit from Joanna Perrens, Political Counsellor at the UK Embassy in Brazil, and Ana Maluf Haas Peçanha, Political Analyst at the UK Consulate General in Rio de Janeiro, when they expressed the interest of the Counsellor and the diplomat...

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Local elections will take place in Brazil on October 6th. In order to bring more awareness on the importance to be well informed about the candidates and their electoral platforms  CEPIA produced two short videos to the youth audience about the role of t...

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