The Postgraduate Program in Public Policies in Human Rights PPDH at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), which is part of the Suely Souza de Almeida Center for Studies in Public Policies in Human Rights, has created the course Women, Justice and Human Rights, coordinated by Professors Cristiane Brandão and Maria Celeste Marques. This course aims to present gender theories in dialogue with the social movements that founded and re-founded strands of feminism and proposes to discuss feminist “waves”, intersectionality and decolonial approaches, as well as forms of violence, access to justice within the scope of the National Policy to Combat Violence against Women.
On April 18th, Leila Linhares Barsted gave the 4th lecture of this course on The feminist movement in Brazil: struggles, conquests and resistance, when she explained the process of constitution of the feminist movement in Brazil and its role as a political actor on the national stage and the construction of an agenda for women’s human rights, which was largely included in the text of the 1988 Federal Constitution.
