On June 26th, Leila Linhares Barsted and Jacqueline Pitanguy participated in the investiture of Judge Adriana Ramos de Mello as Associate Justice of the Rio de Janeiro State Court of Justice. In her inauguration speech, the new Judge, with great experienc...
Continue ReadingThe United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, approved, in May 2023, the Background Paper on Feminicide Review Committees. This background paper was prepared for the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) by Patsilí To...
Continue ReadingThroughout the month of June, several initiatives were carried out around the national and international day to combat child labor, which has sexual exploitation as one of its worst expressions. One of the activities was the event Protecting Childhood is ...
Continue ReadingOn July 1st, at the Movie Theater Espaço Itaú de Cinema, it took place the premiere of the 4th season of the program Age Mídia, a production by Globo Play, Canal Futura and Deusdará. The program addresses topics related to communication, education and...
Continue ReadingCEPIA, represented by Andrea Romani and Gabriel Brandão, received Mario Sérgio Monteiro de Souza, representative of the Sem Vergonha Project, developed at Colégio Estadual Júlia Kubitschek to plan possible joint activities with students of the Project...
Continue ReadingOn July 4th, CEPIA, through its Partiu Papo Reto program, ended another Cycle of workshops. The cycle Partiu Papo Reto: Violence Prevention and Culture of Peace was held at the Rivadavia Corrêa Municipal Public High School. A total of 7 meetings were h...
Continue ReadingThis Seminar took place on July 6 an 7th at UERJ – State University of Rio de Janeiro. Coordinated by professors Clara Araújo and Maira Grove the Seminar presented the results of a comparative research on Brasil, Spain, Portugal and Colombia on soc...
Continue ReadingOn July 14th, CEPIA hosted a meeting with the UNFPA Regional Director for Latin America and the Caribbean, Suzana Sotolli, the UNFPA Representative in Brazil, Florbela Fernandes and Júnia Quiroga, Assistant Representative of UNFPA Brazil. At this meeting...
Continue ReadingThe Future of Care Bulletin is back for an 11th edition with more optimistic expectations for the future! Replacing the title “Times of Elections” for “Times of Democratic Resumption”, the Bulletin has a new look and features analyzes of the first...
Continue ReadingThe English newspaper The Guardian published an article about women’s football and the barriers faced by players due to prejudice. Jacqueline Pitanguy was interviewed and highlighted the weight of the patriarchal culture that still pervades football...
Continue ReadingOn July 27, CEPIA received representatives from the RAP da Saúde Program, an initiative from the Rio de Janeiro Health Department engaging youth on health promotion. The meeting took place at CEPIA’s headquarters and it aimed to plan a series of ...
Continue ReadingAs of August, the Federal Supreme Court (STF) will be able to vote on a fundamental agenda for advancing the decriminalization of abortion in Brazil. ADPF 442 requests that abortion performed by pregnant woman’s will cease to be considered a crime u...
Continue ReadingThroughout the month of July, the Youth, Reproductive Rights and Citizenship Course continued, a partnership between CEPIA and Ríos Rivers, an organization dedicated to advancing reproductive justice in Latin America. The themes of the four classes devel...
Continue ReadingOn August 2nd, the Women’s Safety Commission of the State Council for Women’s Rights (CEDIM/RJ) held a meeting to discuss public policies aimed at women’s safety, with the presence of the Rio de Janeiro State Secretary for Women’s ...
Continue ReadingOn August 3rd, 11th and 21st, Leila Linhares Barsted and Karla Oldane took part in meetings promoted by the group Sexual Autonomy, which brings together various Brazilian feminist organizations in defense of the decriminalization of abortion with a view t...
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