A BIRREGIONAL ARTICULATION AGAINST FEMINICIDES AND OTHER VIOLENCES AGAINST WOMEN promoted on June 2nd, the III Online Bi-regional Seminar – Life Care: Analysis of policies and community resistance against violence, in the framework of Covid 19. This Sem...
Continue ReadingToday, June 3rd, occured the 81st Meeting of the Permanent Forum on Domestic, Family and Gender Violence at the Magistracy School of Rio de Janeiro State (EMERJ), with the theme “Violence and women’s access to justice in time pandemic Covid-19...
Continue ReadingI can not breath. Those were George Floyd’s last words. CEPIA is in solidarity with everyone who, like George Floyd, cannot breathe because structural racism makes the air toxic, suffocating and lethal. It is in solidarity with Brazilians black men ...
Continue ReadingThe international organization Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP), that gather 20 autonomous organizations, including CEPIA, published a solidarity statement with the movement Black Lives Matter. WLP Statement in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter T...
Continue ReadingOn June 4, the first (virtual) Transnational Partners Convening took place, gathering representatives of the various organizations that are part of the international Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) network, in addition to representatives of its B...
Continue ReadingThe Federal Women’s Health Commission was exonerated by the Minister of Health due to a Technical Note issued by this Commission defending that the sexual and reproductive rights and services already guaranteed by law be guaranteed during the Covid-...
Continue ReadingJune 12 marks the worldwide campaign against child and adolescent labor,. Sexual exploitation, understood as the use of child and adolescer to sexual practices with profit purposes, is considered one of the worse forms of child labor. Child Sexual explo...
Continue ReadingLeila Linhares Barsted (CEPIA) was interviewed by Revista Poli, in the edition of Nº. 69 – mar./abr. 2020, from Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, on violence against women and the emergence of Specialized Police Offices for Women (DEAMs). Leila made a retro...
Continue ReadingWomen’s Learning Partnership, a network of 20 autonomous organizations, including CEPIA, invites you to the online screening of its newest film, It’s Up to Us. Around the world people are facing unprecedented challenges to their health, secu...
Continue ReadingGEA, the Abortion Study Group, which brings together doctors, health professionals, civil society , including CEPIA, and scientific and academic societies, will held the virtual meeting Sexual Rights and Reproductive Rights during COVID-19. The meetin...
Continue ReadingOn June 16th, Leila Linhares Barsted (CEPIA) participated in the Women’s Security Commission’s meeting, which occurred at the State Council for Women’s Rights – CEDIM, where the situation of health care services for women victims o...
Continue ReadingUN WOMEN organized, on June 17th, a virtual consultation with a group of former and current advisors to present and gather suggestions for its Strategic Plan, in view of the many challenges faced by Brazilian women in the current social and political junc...
Continue ReadingOn June 18th, the Rio de Janeiro Law School (FGV DIREITO RIO), the Regional Electoral Attorney of the State of Rio de Janeiro and the Fluminense Forum More Women in Politics invited the candidates from the State of Rio de Janeiro to debate the context ele...
Continue ReadingMembers of Maternal Mortality Committees from different regions of the country mobilize and prepare a Manifesto against the dismantling of the technical area of women’s health and the sexual and reproductive health policies of the Ministry of ...
Continue ReadingBrazilian women have full rights to access sexual and reproductive health services that include access to contraception, treatment of sexually transmitted infections and to terminate pregnancy in cases of life-threatening rape and anencephalic fetus. Howe...
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