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  Cepia signs partnership with Petrobrás and Special Secretariat for Women´s Policies from the Federal Government
Cepia signs partnership with Petrobrás and Special Secretariat for Women´s Policies from the Federal Government of Brazil to implement the Project Women go safe. Activities were developed in the cities of Maringá (PR), Chapecó (SC), Itajaí (SC)
and Embu (SP) to inform and raise awareness among truck drivers about the issue of violence against women. For more information
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 The Partnership between CEPIA and WLP goes on
A new phase of the project Leading to choices: A Leadership Training Handbook for Women developed by CEPIA with the support of WLP– Women's Learning Partnership, began in September 2007. Click
here to know more.
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 Global Fund for Woman
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In
partnership with Fundação Oswaldo Cruz /
Instituto Fernandes Figueira, Cepia has
organized workshops to train Health Professionals of the
Public Health Sistem of three cities in Rio de Janeiro
state. The main objective of the workshops was to sensitize
the health professionals to the Human Rights and Sexual
and Reproductive Rights dimensions as guidelines for their
work in delivering family planning services. Click
here to know more.
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The
II National Conference on Public
Policies for Women took
place in Brasília.
The Conference was opened by President
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and attended by more than 2550
women from different parts of the country.
At the occasion Jacqueline Pitanguy was
honoured for the advocacy work develop by the National
Council for Women`s Rights, which she presided, to assure
women’ s
rights at the Brazilian new Contitution.
For more information about the conference, please access www.spmulheres.gov.br
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 "Talking
Leadership Conversations with Powerful Women"
Check the interview given by Jacqueline
Pitanguy, director of CEPIA for
the book "Talking
Leadership Conversations with Powerful Women".
Click
here.
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Violence Against Woman - A Guide of Defense, Orientation and Support
Cepia has launched the 6th reviewed and extended edition of the publication Violence
Against Woman - A Guide of Defense, Orientation and Support.
The launching was on August 13th, at 17h, in the CEDIM/RJ, at Camerino Street
N. 51, Center, Rio de Janeiro. This Guide is already available for download
here. Click
here to know more about the publication.
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 Women's
Learning Partnership
CEPIA is part of a
network of organizations that are partners of Women's
Learning Partnership for Peace and Development (WLP ,
an NGO dedicated to the promotion of women's empowerment
and leadership. WLP works in articulation with 18 organizations
from different countries, particularly those with a Muslim
majority.
Within this partnership, CEPIA has
translated and adpted to Portuguese the manual
Taking of Decisions: Manual of Training
for the Woman´s Leadership,
having organized pilot workshops for the adaptation of
the Manual to the Brazilian reality in 2005 and an evaluation
workshop in 2007. Other meetings and workshops will l
be developed in 2007 in order to diffuse and disccuss
the Manual.
To know more about WLP and our partnership with this
organization please access www.learningpartnership.org/partners/brazil
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 Brazil Fund for Human Rights
The Brazil Fund for Human
Rights a pioneer initiative
in the promotion of human rights in the country.
It has just concluded the selection of the
21 projects that won the Fund' support in 2007
The many projects presented trace a panoramam
of human rights in Brazil. To know more about
the Fund please access www.fundodireitoshumanos.org.br
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 Violence
Against Women in the International Context: Challenges
and Responses
CEPIA launched in 14th of June the book
Violence Against Women
in the International Context: Challenges and
Responses, edited by
Jacqueline Pitanguy and organized by Andrea
Romani, Helen Lawrence and Maria Elvira Vieira
de Melo, with the support of Ford Foundation.
The book presents and analyzes context of 8
countries; South Africa, Brazil, China, Egypt,
India, Palestine, Russia and the United States,
pointing out demographic highlights, partner-economic
and politicians with gender sort, main aspects
of violence against woman and the laws, mechanisms
and public politics with woman in vigor in
each one of these countries.
Click
here to know more.
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WLP
(Women´s Learning Partnership)
The
WLP Organization (Women in Partnership for
the Peace and Development) was held
in Antalya, Turkey, in beginning of June of
2007, a meeting with representatives of organizations
of diverse countries of the Middle East and
Africa, congregated over all the Islamic women
who had debated on questions the human culture,
religion, rights and politics. CEPIA participated
of the debates, in the quality of partner
of this international net.
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Global
Health Council
 The Annual Congress
of the Global Health Council was held in Washinton, DC between June 29th and July the 1st The congress congregated
2000 specialists in health
with different disciplines around the theme Partnerships for the Health. CEPIA was represented by Jacqueline Pitanguy who
was also to co-chair of the event and was part
of the table “Less Talk, Lives Action:
Forging Partnerships will be the Well-being
of Women”.
Click here to read more.
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International
Seminar Laic Freedoms
CEPIA has associated with AJURIS
- Association of Judges of Rio Grande do
Sul in the promotion of the International
Seminar Laic Freedoms.
Click
here to know more.
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International
Seminar Laic Freedoms
CEPIA has associated with
AJURIS - Association of
Judges of
Rio Grande do Sul in the promotion
of the International Seminar
Laic Freedoms.
Click here to know more.
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Murders of Women in Pernambuco
It was launched the book written by Aureliano Biancarelli with support of the
Institute Patricia Galvão on Murders of Women in Pernambuco, the preface of
Jacqueline Pitanguy, director of the Cepia.
Check the the preface here.
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