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On August 30th, the Brazilian Press Association (ABI), UN Women and CEPIA held the event 48 Years of Feminist Boldness: Echoes of the 1975 UN-ABI Seminar at the ABI Auditorium, which was attended by ABI President Octavio Costa, ABI Women and LBTQIA+ Direc...

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The National Council of Justice, CNJ, promoted the event Women in Justice New Directions of Resolution CNJ 255, coordinated by Counselor Salise Sanchotene, in which the judges presented several initiatives developed in working groups aimed at promoting th...

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On August 31st, the Inter-American Commission of Women – CIM, MESECVI and UN Women organized the virtual event Strategic litigation in cases of violence against women in public and political life: Experiences from Latin America, designed to present ...

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On August the 31st, the Ministry of Women, Gender Policies and Sexual Diversity of the province of Buenos Aires organized the III Congress State Present Political Violence and Gender: Challenges of Democracy. Participating in the panel Political Violence ...

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On September 4th, the Brazilian Lawyers Institute (IAB) and its Women’s Rights Commission held the  ADPF 442 Seminar at the Supreme Court – A necessary discussion to debate the decriminalization of voluntary abortion.  The seminar, held in ...

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On September 5th there was the second meeting of the Antiracism Working Group of the OTRT initiative, which takes place monthly, in which CEPIA participates represented by Mariana Barsted and Leila Linhares Barsted. This meeting was attended by various La...

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On September 5th, the Latin American Dialogues for Democracy and Women’s Human Rights meeting took place, an initiative of CEPIA in partnership with the international network Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP). The proposal is to broaden the d...

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Branca Moreira Alves and Jacqueline Pitanguy published the article “What is the role of memory?” in the magazine Parênthesis.  The article talks about the role of memories and struggles for women’s rights, in which they highlight that reports ...

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On September 8th, more than 20 civil society organizations from Latin America participated in a series of hearings with the Committee of Experts of the Follow-up Mechanism to the Belém do Pará Convention (CEVI/MESECVI). During the hearings, held virtual...

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The premiere of the film Angela on September 7th was followed by a debate moderated by Claudia Lamego and with the participation of Joyce Trindade, Duda de Almeida and Jacqueline Pitanguy. Jacqueline highlighted the toxic nature of the relationship betwee...

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On September 13th it took place a fourth virtual conversation about the role of gender norms in achieving equality and women’s human rights.  This initiative was held by Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP) in partnership with  UNFPA’s A...

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Brazil Foundation, an organization founded in the United States and which supports projects in Brazil, chaired by Rebecca Tavares, held a meeting in New York on September 14th with the Minister of Women Aparecida Gonçalves in which the minister spoke abo...

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CEPIA held the 3rd workshop at the Baden Powell Public High School, within the scope of the Violence Prevention and Strengthening of Rights´ Workshop cycle that takes place in partnership with RAP da Saúde, a program of the Municipal Health Department. ...

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On September 15th, CEPIA,  with its Partiu Papo Reto team, began the cycle of workshops ‘Citizenship and Rights’, in partnership with the group of students from Projeto Sem Vergonha, at State School Júlia Kubitschek. This new cycle aims to awaken yo...

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In an interview with Veja Magazine with reporter Amanda Péchy, Jacqueline Pitanguy defends that motherhood should be a choice and not an imposition and remembers that three decades ago she wrote an article for Veja saying that politicians deal with this ...

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