Comba Marques Porto, President of CEPIA’s Board of Directors, reflects in the article entitled Our body, our life: for the right to decide on the abortion issue in Brazil, bringing her experience as a lawyer, labor judge and feminist activist. Acces...
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CEPIA is part of Fòs Feminista, an initiative that brings together organizations from different countries that share the mission of fighting for women’s sexual and reproductive rights. On July 20, the Regional Initiative meeting was held, which bro...
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On July 25th, International Day of Latin American and Caribbean Women and National Day of Tereza Benguela, the Municipal Council for Women’s Rights promotes a round of conversation entitled Advances, achievements, and challenges for black women in B...
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CEPIA, in partnership with the Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP), launched its 10th edition of the Training of Trainers (TOT) initiative. The training takes place online on July 25th and 27th and on August 1st and 3rd , gathering a group of wom...
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CEPIA, in partnership with the Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP), continued in August the 10th edition of the Training of Facilitators, which occurred online, starting in July and ending in August. There were 4 days of training that brought togethe...
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The Working Group on Gender Equality and Non-Discrimination (GTG) of the Latin American and Caribbean Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (OLACEFS), led by the Comptroller General of the Republic of Chile, promoted, on August 2nd, the Webinar Inter...
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A Public Act in Defense of Democracy will take place on August 11th. It will be marked by a collective reading of the Letter to Brazilians in Defense of the Democratic State of Law by a group of women organizations and other institutions including AMB R...
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The Executive Secretariat of the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM) of the Organization of American States (OAS) promoted on August 4th the webinar The Situation of Women in the Region, organized jointly with the Permanent Representation of Peru to ...
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UN Women, represented by Maria Noel Vaeza, Director for Latin America and the Caribbean organizes periodic on line meetings with women’s rights organizations in the Region in which CEPIA participates. On an August 4th meeting UN Women presented the ...
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Reaffirming their commitment to democracy, women’s organizations such as AMB/RJ, CAMTRA, CEPIA, Colectivo Feminista 4 D, Colectivo Feminista do PSOL, Coletivo Juntas, CRIOLA, GRAM, PEITAMOS, REDEH and UBM called for the reading of the Letter to Braz...
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Construction and Destruction of the Human Rights and Policies for Women in Brazil This is the title of the Cadernos CEDEC n.133 published by the Research Group on Human Rights Democracy and Memory (GRPD) of the Institute for Advanced Studies of the São P...
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The Regional Council of Nursing – 3. COREM, through its Technical Chamber of Bioethics, held on August, 17th, the seminar The Nursing in the guarantee of human rights in health and prevention of violations: ways of acting. Leila Linhares Barsted and...
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On August 16, CEPIA, invited by the Municipal Council for the Rights of Children and Adolescents (CDMCA-Rio) held two workshops with adolescents and young people from different locations of Rio de Janeiro aiming to learn from them their perception abo...
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The Permanent Forum on Domestic and Gender Violence and the Center for Research on Gender, Race and Ethnicity – NUPREG, the School of Magistrates of the State of Rio de Janeiro – EMERJ, held on August 18th, in commemoration of 16 years of the ...
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Although the legislation has advanced, the participation of women in the 2022 elections is still low. Despite the fact that in Brazil we had a small advance in relation to the 2018 dispute, this percentage went from 32% to 33% of the total candidacy of wo...
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