The Committee of Experts of the Follow-Up Mechanism of the Convention of Belém do Pará (MESECVI) of the Organization of American States (OAS) made an official visit from March 1st to 3rd to discuss attacks against women in the political arena and provid...
Continue ReadingOn March 1st and 2nd, Mariana Barsted, representing CEPIA, attended the III Congress Gender, Family and Fundamental Rights – Domestic and Family Violence: Human Rights Violation, organized by the Brazilian Institute of Family Law (IBDFAM). The theme...
Continue ReadingOn March 2nd, CEPIA’s team visited the Orlando Vilas Boas Municipal School, a partner school since 2019, to resume activities and workshops to 2023. Débora, Gabriel and Kézia, facilitators and members of CEPIA’s team, went to the school to c...
Continue ReadingCEPIA, through its program officers, Mariana Barsted and Andrea Romani, begins to participate in a technical follow-up, with support from EMpower, for the improvement, planning, monitoring, evaluation and learning offered by INSAD, an institution that see...
Continue ReadingThe Consortium Maria da Penha Law, of which CEPIA is part, with the participation of Leila Linhares Barsted, in broad articulation with the women’s movements is initiating the elaboration of a proposal of a General Law on Violence against Women in o...
Continue ReadingThe Superior Court of Justice (STJ) held on March 6th and 7th, the seminar Protocol for Judgment with a Gender Perspective: Theory and Practice. This event was aimed at magistrates from all over the country, operators of law in general, public servants an...
Continue ReadingOn March 7th, CEPIA initiated the online course Cairo in Cotidiano: communication in the defense of women’s human rights, a partnership between CEPIA and the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), based on a project proposal approved in the III Cal...
Continue ReadingOn March 08th, Leila Linhares Barsted and Jacqueline Pitanguy were interviewed by judge Katerine Jatahy, president of the National Forum of Judges of Domestic and Family Violence (Fonavid) on the theme of gender violence against women in its various manif...
Continue ReadingJogo de Cartas is an original podcast by @DeezerBR, produced by Radio Novelo, in partnership with @InstitutoUpdate. Jacqueline Pitanguy, Schuma Shumacher, Hildete Pereira de Melo, Comba Marques Porto and deputies like AnaMaria Rattes and Benedita da Silva...
Continue ReadingIn celebration of International Women’s Day, CEPIA invited young people to speak about what they expect from the future. This series, published on our Instagram @cepiacidadania is called “Women of Tomorrow” #8M Some wishes and messages f...
Continue ReadingThe 67th edition of the CSW/UN – United Nations Commission on the Status of Women – takes place in New York from March 6th to 17th. CSW is the leading intergovernmental body dedicated to promoting gender equality and women’s empowerment,...
Continue ReadingCEPIA was present in Barbacena at a debate on Feminism in Brazil, in which Branca Moreira Alves and Sandra Azeredo, members of its Assembly of Associates, and Jacqueline Pitanguy and Leila Barsted, Executive Coordinators, spoke with the audience about cha...
Continue ReadingEducation Based on Life Skills: Promotion of Emotional Health and Well-Being in the School Community
On March 15, CEPIA launched a new training project called Education Based on Life Skills: Promotion of Emotional Health and Well-Being in the School Community having as main public professionals in the areas of education, health and social assistance. Th...
Continue ReadingCEPIA joins in the tributes to Nair Jane who represents the struggle of domestic workers for the recognition of their labor rights. Nair worked since she was a little girl as a domestic worker, at the same time that she was engaged in the organization of ...
Continue ReadingCEPIA, represented by Miriam Ventura, who is part of its Board of Directors, was present, together with representatives of the feminist movement of the Reproductive Justice Strategy in the Ministry of Health, with the Secretariat of Primary Health Care, r...
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