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On February 17th, Cepia held a meeting with former participants of the Training of Trainers edition 2019. A network of partnerships was established among women to strengthen initiatives in diferente regions of Rio de Janeiro, including Baixada Fluminense,...

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In 2020 Cepia celebrates 30 years of challenges and achievements in favor of women's rights. We continue to build a new chapter of this History, and it is worth remembering some highlights of 2019. To access our 2019 Retrospective Newsletter in Portuguese...

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The Feminist Consortium Lei Maria da Penha held on March 2nd and 3rd, at CFEMEA headquarters, in Brasília, a meeting to share the survey of bills that are being processed in Congress and that change the Maria da Penha Law. At this meeting, the Consortium...

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The Research Group on Gender, Race and Ethnicity (NUPEGRE) of the Magistrate’s School of Rio de Janeiro State (EMERJ), with the institutional support of Fonavid (National Forum of Domestic Violence Judges), carried out, throughout the on March 4th, ...

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On March 3rd Jacqueline Pitanguy participated at the Governing Assembly of Action Aid Brazil virtual meeting, where the corona virus challenges and efforts to respond to it were addressed.

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On March 4th, CEPIA, represented by Jacqueline Pitanguy, had a conference call with the Swedish Institute and the women’s rights organization Kivinna til Kivinna to plan for the 2025 Beijing Conference in Paris and the activities that will be devel...

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On March 6th, CEPIA’s young team met to share the contents of the workshops they are developing on the theme of puberty and life skills, a term that had its origin in the publication of the guidelines of the World Health Organization’s Mental ...

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CEPIA attended various events that were held in Rio de Janeiro in celebration of  women’s day. In the adverse political context that we facing in Brazil, to be united and  occupy the streets to defend our rights and to resist to threats became even mo...

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On March 10th Jacqueline Pitanguy represented CEPIA at the Maternal Mortality Commission meeting held at the Municipal Health Department, to analyse  the rates and causes of maternal mortality in Rio de Janeiro and propose measures to guarantee safe preg...

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From February to March, CEPIA received a Danish student that joint our team. Janne, who is a student of Global Nutrition and Health at the University of Copenhagen, has been working with CEPIA’s team on issues related to puberty and sexual and repro...

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On March 13th, Kézia Santos, a member of CEPIA’s young team, held a workshop on Life Skills. The World Health Organization identified core cross-cultural like skills, which aim to help people respond effectively to the demands and challenges of eve...

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UN Women prepared a newsletter bringing some thoughts on how the Coronavirus Pandemia impacts women and men differently. The document is in Portuguese and can be downloaded here Gênero e Covid-19 na América Latina e no Caribe: dimensões de gênero na r...

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On March 31st Jacqueline Pitanguy was interviewed by UNISINOS ( University of Rio Grande do Sul) on the issue of domestic violence and the social isolation due to the corona virus and she pointed out that since 1986, with a national survey of our Bureau o...

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The Maria da Penha Law Consortium, aiming to contribute with the parliamentarians’ initiatives to confront violence against women during the Covid-19 world pandemic, prepared this Technical Note emphasizing the importance of the bills, analyzing the...

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Cepia launches today,  Youth’s Day, the “Manual of Ideas and Activities – Active Methodology for working with Adolescents and Youth” (Manual de Ideias e Atividades – Metodologia Ativa para trabalhar com Adolescentes e Jovens...

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