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Daisies’ March expected to bring together 100,000 women in Brasília

Over 100,000 Brazilian women, alongside delegates from 33 countries, are set to convene this Tuesday (Aug. 15) and Wednesday in Brasília for the 7th Daisies’ March (Marcha das Margaridas). Organized by the National Confederation of Agricultural Workers (Contag), linked federations and unions, along with 16 collaborating entities, this quadrennial event carries the theme "Reconstructing Brazil and Pursuing Prosperity" for its 2023 edition.Among the participants are rural workers, indigenous peoples, quilombolas, riverine inhabitants, landless individuals, extractivists, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, and urban residents. For Contag, this march stands as the most expansive women's political demonstration in Latin America.DemandsThe "daisies" have articulated their primary demands f...

One in seven women at 40 has undergone abortion in Brazil

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One in seven women at 40 has undergone abortion in Brazil

According to the 2021 National Abortion Survey (PNA), one in seven women, close to the age of 40, has undergone at least one abortion in Brazil. The survey was carried out in November 2021 and interviewed two thousand women in 125 municipalities.The study, coordinated by anthropologist and professor at the University of Brasilia, Débora Diniz, indicates that more than half (52%) of all women who had an abortion were 19 years old or younger when they had their first abortion. Out of this contingent (under 19 years old), 46 percent were teenagers between 16 and 19 years old, and 6 percent were girls between 12 and 14 years old.In this survey’s edition, the abortion rate registered a drop compared to the previous two ones, carried out in 2010 and 2016. In 2021, about 10 percent of the wom...

Violence against women is the focus of the White Ribbon campaign

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Violence against women is the focus of the White Ribbon campaign

The National Day of Mobilization of Men for the End of Violence against Women - which became better known as White Ribbon Day was remembered by the Minister of Women, Family and Human Rights, Cristiane Britto, in an interview to the program A Voz do Brasil on Wednesday (7)The campaign was created in Canada on December 7th, 1989, when Canadians decided to talk about violence against women, after an episode in which students were murdered by a man who couldn't stand to hear about women studying engineering. In this campaign, says the minister, "we mobilize men to talk at home, at work, in any environment where they are, about the importance of everyone fighting violence against women.In Brazil, the campaign aims to make men aware of the denouncement channels, especially the Ligue 180, wh...