Latin America Hub
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The Latin America Hub is based at the Nucleus for Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies, Brazil:
Convenor: Cecilia Sardenberg
NEIM/FFCH/UFBA
Estrada de Sao Lazaro
197 – Federacao
40.210-730, Salvador
Bahia, BRAZIL
Website: http://www.neim.ufba.br/site
or Project Website: http://www.projetotempo.neim.ufba.br/
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Team Members:
Silvia de Aquino
Ana Alice Costa
Silvia Lucia Ferreira
Terezinha Gonsalves
Nadja Pinheiro
Lea Santana
(Communications)
Latest
Launch of the 'Best Practice in the Implementation and Dissemination of the Maria da Penha Law' Award
NEIM
Cecilia Sardenberg, national coordinator of the Observatory for
the Implementation of the Maria da Penha Law, was in Brasilia on 6th August to attend the launch of the 'Best Practice in the
Implementation and Dissemination of the Maria da Penha
Law' Award. The event was also attended by Maria da Penha Fernandes, the woman who gives her name to the law which punishes domestic and family violence against women. For more information see the Latin American Hub news page.
Seminar on 20 Years of the Lipstick Lobby organised by NEIM/UFBA from 16 to 17 October. The programme is available from the NEIM website.
O NÚCLEO DE ESTUDOS INTERDISCIPLINARES SOBRE A MULHER-NEIM/UFBA, em face das comemorações alusivas aos seus 25 anos de existência, estará promovendo nos dias 16 e 17 de outubro o I COLÓQUIO NACIONAL SOBRE AS MULHERES E A CONSTITUIÇAO: Reflexões feministas sobre o legado jurídico-político do lobby do batom 20 anos depois, com o apoio da Secretaria Nacional de Políticas para Mulheres.
http://www.neim.ufba.br/site/agenda.php?ID=79
Getting Hotter by the Day - see Cecilia Sardenberg's comments on the abortion debate in Brazil.
Boletim Informativo No 01, Março de 2007, Núcleo de Estudos Interdisciplinares sobre a Mulher (Português) (pdf 643 KB)
Research
| The hub’s research will investigate and analyse, on the one hand, women’s organising in empowering work, building constituencies for gender justice, changing narratives of sexuality, and how changes of wider dimension taking place in the countries of the region have contributed to these struggles, and, on the other, how all of these struggles and processes have resonated in the individual pathways of different women towards empowerment. |  |
Projects
Conceptualising Empowerment in Brazil: Policy Discourse and the Discourse of Feminist NGOs
Changing Times, Changing Lives: Women's Empowerment through Generations in Bahia, Brazil
Building Constituencies for Political Reform: Quotas as an Instrument of Change
Learning for Change: The Experience of Brazil’s Feminist Schools for Women Politicians
Pathways of Women's Empowerment through Legal Strategies: The Case of Maria da Penha Law
Empowering Domestic Work: The Organizing of Domestic Workers in Brazil
Feminisms and the Struggle for Reproductive Health and Reproductive Rights: the Brazilian Experience
Zone: A Study of the Sex Workers’ Radio Station in Bahia
Partners: