 The
Second International Women Human Rights Program Course
took place between the 28th of November and the
11th of December of 2004 in the Novo Mundo Hotel in Rio de Janeiro.
Thirty-two students from Pernambuco, Paraíba,
Bahia, Ceará, Distrito Federal, Santa Catarina, São
Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, as well as, eight students from other
Latin American countries (Chile, Colombia, Argentina and Mexico)
attended the course.
The program consisted of an opening speech
and ten modules, where the following themes were discussed: The
Legal Context and Human Rights; Public Statistics and Human Rights
Parameters; Social Politics, Estate and Society; Ethnic and Racial
Relations; Violence, Domestic and Sexual Violence, and Access to
Justice; Sexuality and Sexual Rights; Reproductive Rights and Reproductive
Health; Gender and Citizenship; Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;
and Advocacy Strategies.
On
the 22nd and 23rd of November 2004, Cepia participated in the Annual
PROSARE seminar , São Paulo, where we presented data regarding
the execution of the project Capacity Building in the Care of Women
Who are Victims of Sexual Violence for Health Care and Public Safety
Professionals.
In the health care area, we worked in partnership
with the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Health Office, in an effort which
resulted in the training of 142 members of its multidisciplinary
team; and the creation of the Caring for Victims of Sexual Violence
Service Network, which is currently present in 6 emergency and 6
obstetric hospitals.
In the public safety area, the efforts were undertaken
in partnership with the Rio de Janeiro Estate Police Academy –
ACADEPOL – and reached 617 police officers working in common
police stations and in the police stations specialized in serving
women.
Furthermore, we presented the following material
relating to this project:
Violence against women: A guide for defense,
orientation and suppport/ Rio de Janeiro.
A folder for the user of the public health system (SUS) with addresses
of health services specialized in caring for women and children
victim of sexual violence.
Pocket manuals intended for doctors containing the Health Ministry
protocol to be followed during the care of women who are victims
of sexual violence.
In September
of 2004, Cepia, with the support of UNIFEM, initiated the
project ‘ The Progress of Brazilian Women in Present-day Brazil’.
The objective of this study is to update, complement and extend
the existing information regarding the current status of Brazilian
women, in the framework of the everyday life, where the gender inequalities
are apparent.
This work will be conducted taking as a reference
point the Constitution of 1988 and seven thematic areas, namely:
Work, Wages and Social Policy; Civil and Political Rights; Access
to Land, Housing and City Access; Gender, Race, Health, Sexuality
and Reproductive Rights; and Gender Violence: domestic and sexual.
This work will be done under the coordination
of the sociologist Dayse Miranda, and will also count of the expertise
of recognized specialists in the areas mentioned: Beatriz Heredia,
Cristina Bruschini, Flávia Piovesan, Gabriella Rossi, Jacqueline
Pitanguy, Leila Linhares, Miriam Ventura, and Rosana Heringer. We
expect the text to be published in 2005.
The
guide Violence agaisnt women: A guide for defense, orientation
and suppport (2004) is now available in its 5th edition.
The updated version of this guide was a work of CEPIA in association
with CEDIM.
Text: Jacqueline Hermann e Leila Linhares
Barsted.
Research updated by: Jeanne de S. Lima, Ruth Floresta de
Mesquita e Sandra Infurna.
 Click here to download this folder in portuguese version!
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The
admission committee for the International Program for Training
and Capacity Building in Women’s Human Rights approved
34 candidates out of the 123 applications received by CEPIA
for the II Women’s Human Rights Course that will
take place from November 28th to December 11th, 2004
in Rio de Janeiro.
Click
here to see the list of approved applicants!
On
August 27th, CEPIA in partnership with the Rio
de Janeiro Municipal Health Office – SMS/Rio, sponsored the
closing ceremony for the PROSARE Project. In this occasion the Resource
Network for Assisting Victims of Sexual Violence was inaugurated.
Some of the key representatives present at the opening ceremony
were:
Dr. Kátia Ratto – Coordinator of the
Municipal Health Office – RJ;
Dr. Sérgio Caldas – ACEDEPOL’s director–
Police Academy – RJ;
Jacqueline Pitanguy – Sociologist, CEPIA’s director;
Leila Linhares Barsted – Lawyer, CEPIA’s director;
Dr. Jorge Andalaft - Febrasgo e Santo Amaro University Gynecology
and Obstetrics Professor – SP.
The PROSARE Project was responsible for training
230 health professionals and 617 public safety professionals for
assisting women victims of sexual violence. Cepia and Rio de Janeiro
Municipal Health Office paid tribute the hospitals that took part
in this network and offered a commemorative plaque for their qualification
in this type of public assistance. The hospitals praised were:
Hospital Maternidade Alexander Fleming;
Hospital Maternidade Carmela Dutra;
Hospital Maternidade Oswaldo Nazareth;
Hospital Municipal Jesus;
Hospital Raphael de Paula Souza/Maternidade Leila.
Instituto da Mulher Fernando Magalhães
Unidade Integrada de Saúde Herculano Pinheiro.
Pictures of the event
CEPIA
is proud to announce the Portuguese version of the publication
Reproductive Health and Human Rights: Integrating Medicine,
Ethics and Law. This version of the book was published
in Brazil under Cepia's editorial coordination. The authors
Rebecca J. Cook, Bernard M. Dickens and Mahmoud F. Fathalla
are authorities in reproductive health, medical law and bioethics.
They present their discipline so as to offer an accessible
and comprehensible panorama about the various themes dealt
with in this book.
Click
here to download the folder in portuguese version
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In
August 2004 the University of Rio de Janeiro Medical
School in collaboration with Cepia began the new Body,
Health and Society course. This time 49 students from the fields
of Medicine, Physiotherapy and Nursing signed up to the course.
The
First Women’s National Conference, organized
by the Women’s Policies Secretariat, took
place in Brasilia on the 14th, 15th and 16th of July, 2004. CEPIA
was represented in the event by Jacqueline Pitanguy, who gave a
lecture about Gender Policies on a Historical Perspective.
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