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The working group in charge of reviewing the Municipal Plan to Combat Sexual Violence against Children and Adolescents  held its monthly meeting on October 28. In addition to its members, this meeting was attended by Lídia Rodrigues, a social educator a...

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In a newspaper report on the increase in cases of femicide in Brazil, the newspaper O Globo and the newspaper Extra, on October 31st, published an article with an interview with several experts on this topic, among them Leila Linhares Barsted, from CEPIA,...

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CEPIA expresses its indignation and perplexity with the performance of the defense, the prosecutor and the judge on trial in the Santa Catarina justice in September when a rapist was acquitted with the creation of a non-existent figure in the  life and i...

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CEPIA’s team met, virtually, on November 9th to evaluate the development of its activities, lessons learned, perspectives for new projects and to share resilience strategies being adopted by the team during Covid-19 pandemic.

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The Working Group (WG) responsible for revising the Municipal Plan to Combat Sexual Violence against Children and Adolescents held, on November 11, a meeting on Sexual Rights,  as Human Rights, having a speaker Vanessa Leite. This meeting, moderated by A...

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On November 17 TV Justiça interviewed Jacqueline Pitanguy from CEPIA and Professor Maíra Zapater in the Programa Direito Sem Fronteira (Law Without Borders) which will be broadcast in December on the occasion of the celebration of the international day ...

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The Permanent Forum on Domestic, Family and Gender Violence of the Rio de Janeiro State Magistracy School (EMERJ), in conjunction with the Gender, Race and Ethnicity Research Center (NUPEGRE), promoted on the 16th, the webinar The culture of rape in Brazi...

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CEPIA, in partnership with NAM – Center for Adolescent Multipliers -, is developing a series of workshops with students from public high schools from Rio de Janeiro, involving the 11 Regional Education Coordinators (CREs). The proposal is to involve...

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The Ministry of Women, Gender Policies and Sexual Diversity of the Province of Buenos Aires promoted on November 18th, the webinar Indispensable Dialogues – Reflections on gender violence since feminism in the Southern Cone with the aim of rescuing ...

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The Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights Development and Peace (WLP) celebrates its 20th Anniversary of a joint effort to empowering and promote  women’s leadership around the world. This celebration was part of its annual Transnational Pa...

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Leila Linhares Barsted, from CEPIA, participated, as a member of MESECVI, in the meeting of the Consultative Council of the Experts Committee of the Follow-up Mechanism of the Convention to Prevent, Punish and Eradicate Violence against Women, which took ...

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CEPIA expresses its rejection to the murder of João Alberto Silveira Freitas, beaten to death at the Carrefour supermarket in Porto Alegre. CEPIA expresses repudiation to the structural racism established in a culture that is originated in violence, in t...

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Cepia invites you to watch the film “It is Up to Us”. Produced by  WLP (Women’s Learning Partnership for Rights Development and Peace), the film provides insights on how women have been affected by cross-cutting injustices and how women...

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Today, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, initiates the 16-day International Campaign for Activism to end Violence Against Women. CEPIA joins the multiple initiatives developed in Brazil and in other regions to put an end...

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The National School for the Training of Magistrates (ENFAM), on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, promoted, on November 25th, the Webinar Gender and Human Rights of Women, coordinated by Judge Adriana Ramos de Melo of th...

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