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The IPPF (International Planned Parenthood Federation) is organizing a series of conversations entitled  Dialogues of Exchange and Knowledge. On April 13, Jacqueline Pitanguy, assisted at the presentation of the economist Monica de Bolle coordinated by G...

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In the second week of April, CEPIA, in partnership with the collective Mulheres de Frente and the international organization @ Women’s Learning Partnership (WLP), started a cycle of 5 meetings, called Virtual Conversation Among Women. The workshop a...

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On April 24, it will begin the trial by the Supreme Federal Court, STF, of Action 5581 (ADI 5581) filed by the National Association of Public Defenders, in which CEPIA is Amicus Curiae. The Action demands protection and social benefits to pregnant women i...

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Women’s Learning Partnership will held the webinar Women Leading with Courage in Times of Crisis. The event will take place on April 28th, at 12h, Brazil time.  Among the speakers are women from Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and the US th...

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The Gender, Race and Ethnicity Research Group – NUPEGRE, of the Rio de Janeiro State Magistrates’ School (EMERJ) launched the booklet “Covid 19 Lockdown without Violence” so that women have no doubts about their rights at this time...

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The EM Power, The Emerging Market Foundation, is promoting, for its partner organizations in Latin America, including CEPIA, 4 virtual meetings, conducted by the Argentinian organization Faro Digital, on themes related to the digital space, focusing on th...

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With the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic and the growing need to stay at home, CEPIA, through its social media @Partiu Papo Reto, aimed at teenagers and young people, and @Cepia Cidadania, more focused on the adult public, has been investing in the pro...

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The Inter American Dialogue (IAD), an organization that promotes dialogue and debate on relevant issues of politics, economics and human rights in the Americas and of which Jacqueline Pitanguy, is a member, organized an online event on Covid-19 and Human ...

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The Rio de Janeiro section of the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), through its Women Directory, asked that the emergency protective measures, already granted,for women in situations of domestic violence be automatically extended and that the new ones be o...

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Continuing work during the period of social isolation, on May 5th, Leila Linhares Barsted, CEPIA’s Executive Coordinator, participated, in a virtual meeting, of the Maria da Penha Law Consortium for Confronting All Forms of Gender-Based Violence Aga...

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The UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund), along with ABEP (Brazilian Association of Population Studies)  are organizing the webinar Gender violence and Covid-19: evidence, surveillance and attention that will take place on May 6th at 3 pm at the youtub...

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As the number of people with COVID-19 in Africa continue to rise, and governments imposes strict lockdown measures including states of emergencies, it has become increasingly apparent that similar to other parts of the world, women are most likely to bear...

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The Organization of American States (OAS), through the Inter-American Commission of Women (CIM), has released the document “COVID-19 in Women´s Lives: Reasons to Recognize Differential Impacts.” The document, which responds to the needs that the CIM ...

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The Center for Studies in Law and Inequality and the group of access to justice at the Ribeirão Preto Law School, from University of São Paulo, promoted, on May 6th, the first class of the “Cycle of debates and training in Gender, inequalities and...

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In an unfair society and often with questionable priorities, CEPIA took advantage of this sensitive moment when people are all in social isolation due to the pandemic of the covid-19, to honor real women, mothers, matriarchs, our female references in thei...

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