On September 23rd, the Maria da Penha Law Consortium held an online meeting with various feminist organizations to present and debate the first draft of the proposed General Law on Gender Violence against Women. The meeting, coordinated by Leticia Ferreir...
Continue ReadingOn September 20th, the 55th Subsection of the Rio de Janeiro Chapter of the Brazilian Bar Association, with its Permanent Women’s Commission, held the 1st edition of the Women in the Spotlight/2024 event, which recognizes the fundamental representat...
Continue ReadingOn September 18th it took place the monthly meetings of Fòs Feminist partners in Latin America and the Caribbean. The agenda of the meeting included an update about the Brazilian context regarding the closure of Hospital Cachoeirinha in São Paulo, the...
Continue ReadingOn September 17th, CEPIA, through its Partiu Papo Reto program, began a new cycle of workshops at the Orlando Villas Boas Public Municipal School “(Re)cognizing violence to prevent and confront it”. In this first out of five meetings, the topic of Lif...
Continue ReadingThe International Conference on Population and Development, held in Cairo in September 1994, was a milestone in the defense of human rights, especially those of women. On that occasion, 179 countries committed to guaranteeing reproductive health, gender e...
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