New Challenges of Political Responsibility

CEPIA, in partnership with the NGO – CFEMEA, and with the support of the United Nations Development Fund (UNFPA), promoted the meeting New Challenges of Political Responsibility between September 19th and 21st in Rio de Janeiro.

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Promoting Safe Maternity Through Human Rights
CEPIA edited the Portuguese version of the publication “Promoting Safe Maternity Through Human Rights”. This book was released on the 19th of September at the “New Challenges of Political Responsibility” event which was organized by Cepia and The Civil Society Forum of the Americas in partnership with CFEMEA. This book was also released in Recife on the 23rd of October at the event “Social Control and Human Rights: guaranteeing the access to a safe maternity”, which was promoted by the following groups: ADVOCACI, ‘Loucas de Pedra Lilás’, Curumim, SOS Corpo, the Public Prosecution offices of Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro and Tocantins, the Recife Municipal Office of Health, and the National Health Office.

Cepia took place in the workshop on National Statistics and Human Rights, sponsored by IBGE/ENCE

On July 31st and August 1st, 2003 IBGE and ENCE (National Statistics School) promoted the workshop entitled ‘National Statistics and Human Rights’, intended to promote an ample debate among specialists in data collection and data analysts about the convenience, opportunity, necessity and viability of formulating an articulated set of Human Rights indicators. The workshop had as the core of its activities the methodological analysis of the concept and dimension of Human Rights and its measurement.

Working from an interdisciplinary perspective, this workshop contemplated the following themes: Social, Economic, Cultural and Political Rights; Access to justice and Safety Rights; Violence; Criminality and Public Safety. In addition, the last session of the workshop was dedicated to a presentation and discussion of IBGE research and data collection. These are considered to be the basis, but not the whole, of the future development of the proposal presented herein. Rosana Heringer, a researcher working with Cepia, presented the experience with the ICC – index of compromises fulfilled – project: A strategy for the control of gender equality by the community in one of the workshop sessions. The workshop took place in the IBAM auditorium in Rio de Janeiro.

For further information about the workshop e-mail to: epdh@ibge.gov.br

Cepia promotes course about women’s human rights – International Program for Training and Capacity Building in Women’s Human Rights

Cepia is announcing the beginning of candidate selection for the first edition of the International Program for Training and Capacity Building in Women’s Human Rights. This course will be offered with the support of the Ford Foundation between the 23rd of November and the 6th of December of 2003 in Rio de Janeiro.

The program has as a central concept the necessity to invest in the diffusion and amplification of knowledge aiming to strengthen the arguments and practices of individuals and organizations so that they will be able to better defend the human rights of women. Thus, this course aims to address the urgent need to have up to date and high quality instruments to face the setbacks that threaten women’s human rights, and above all, to respond in innovative ways to the challenges that face the expansion of these rights, and to diminish the distance between laws and social practices.

The program intends to educate on sociological, juridical and strategic concepts, present well succeeded initiatives, and discuss strategies for the advancement of knowledge, promotion and implementation of women’s human rights.

The course will be composed of thematic modules, which will be coordinated by specialists in various areas. Furthers information about the course can be obtained through the e-mail: mariaelvira@cepia.org.br

The ICC Project - index of compromises fulfilled: A strategy for the control of gender equality by the community.

Cepia – Citizenship, Study, Research, Information and Action – in partnership with FLASCO/Chile (Faculdad Latino-Americana de Ciências Sociales) will be undertaking the ICC Project – index of compromises fulfilled - in Brazil. The project consists in the evaluation of the advances and setbacks of the country in the fulfillment of the Beijing and Cairo action plans. The ICC project is being carried out in various Latin American countries and presents itself as a useful theoretical and political tool for women organization of the entire country.

Further information about the projects can be obtained through the following e-mails: rosana@cepia.org.br and dayse@cepia.org.br

Meeting with legislators… Cepia will organize in Rio de Janeiro between September 19th and 21st of 2003 a meeting called upon by the Civil Society Forum of the Americas with Brazilian legislators about New Challenges of Political Responsibility: HIV/AIDS, Unwanted Pregnancy, and Violence Against Women.

CEPIA is developing a project designed to monitor the fulfillment of the commitments made by the Brazilian government in the platform for action of the International Population and Development Conference - Cairo/1994 and the IV Women´s World Conference - Beijing/95. This project is part of an initiative by FLACSO - Faculdad Latino Americana de Ciencias Sociales which is coordinating similar actions in other Latin American Countires.

Release of the book ‘Cadernos Cepia 5 - Gender, Body and Nursing’ edited by Jacqueline Pitanguy and Ruth Mesquita. In this publication you will find some of the lectures given during the course ‘Gender, Body and Nursing being taught since 1999 in a partnership between CEPIA and the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) Nursing School.

Release of a manual for field agents - “Working with Women and AIDS: orientation manual for field agents”. This manual is a tool used by CEPIA, in partnership with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Social Service School, in a project taking place in 11 waiting rooms in Rio de Janeiro City Hospitals. This experience will be presented on April 11th, 2003 in the meeting HIV/AIDS Prevention in Women: Report of a health education experience to be held at the CFCH auditorium in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.

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