On December 9th, Fòs Feminista organized the last meeting of the year gathering the partner organizations of its regional initiative in defense of reproductive justice in Latin America and the Caribbean. Andrea Romani and Jacqueline Pitanguy participated...
Continue ReadingOn December 9th, CEPIA’s General Assembly was held, bringing together its Board of Directors and Assembly of Associates. It was attended by Comba Marques Porto, Chairman of the Board of Directors and the Directors Miriam Ventura da Silva, Rosana Her...
Continue ReadingOn December 9th was held the last meeting of the year of the Community of Practice of NGOs working on issues related to the empowerment of adolescent girls, in particular on sexual and reproductive health and rights. This Community brings together partne...
Continue ReadingThe Maria da Penha Law Consortium, on December 13th, met with Federal Deputy Aline Gurgel, Rapporteur of Bill No. 7352/2017, which amends the Parental Alienation Law and who declared to be in favour of the repeal of this Law. The Deputy spoke with the mem...
Continue ReadingIn December, CEPIA’s live Trajectories: conversation between women will be about I love myself: Self-care through the eyes of women of different cultures and bodies. Audre Lorde, black, lesbian, feminist, Caribbean-American writer, said: “Tak...
Continue ReadingThe Municipal Plan for Combating Sexual Violence against Children and Adolescents of Rio de Janeiro was approved by the Municipal Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents (CMDCA-Rio) and published in the Official Gazette on December 13, through ...
Continue ReadingOn December 16 took place a meeting of the organizations that are partners of FÒS FEMINISTA, an alliance that has been created in 2021 bringing together IPPF/WHR, IWHC, International Women’s Health Coalition and CHANGE. CEPIA, represented by Jacqueli...
Continue ReadingIt’s better when it’s legalized. This is the third and final collaborative Instagram comic about reproductive justice. This project involved CEPIA, represented by Karla Oldane, in partnership with Nem Pensa em Me Matar and Coletivo Helen Kelle...
Continue ReadingCEPIA has just launched a new material. It is the Apostila Empodera & Multiplica (Empowering and multiplying learnings). This booklet arose from a partnership between CEPIA and the Municipal Education Department of Rio de Janeiro, through the School H...
Continue ReadingThrough the words of poet Cora Coralina CEPIA’s team share the hope that in 2022 stones be removed, opening the way for democracy and social justice. Don’t let yourself be destroyed… Gather new poems, Recreate your life, always, a...
Continue ReadingAsma Kadher, a Jordanian lawyer, was a tireless defender of girls and women’s human rights. She held important positions in her country as Senator and Ministry of Culture and was founder and Executive Director of the Jordanian NGO Solidarity is Glob...
Continue ReadingCEPIA ‘s Youth team have produced a video retrospective with the main highlights of our activities and partnerships of 2021. The video was presented by Kezia Sampaio and Lucas Marçal. To watch the video in Portuguese click here
Continue ReadingThe publication NEXO Public Policies, January 2022, brings the article of Myllena Calasans de Matos and Fernanda Papa, To 2022: women and Maria da Penha Law protected! the implementation of this Law and point to the current challenges for the protection o...
Continue ReadingCEPIA premiered its podcasts! Episode 2 of the CEPIA Podcast is on air, in it we present an overview of the discussions about the electoral under-representation of women in Brazil. Come and reflect on how the proposal of quotas becomes important in increa...
Continue ReadingToday CEPIA launches the research “School, pandemic and adolescence”, a research conducted in the year 2021, in partnership with EMpower, when CEPIA started the project “Skills for Life” aimed at adolescents and youth, in order to ...
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