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Mobilising Support Course: the Linha Community and its fight against the eviction of more than 700 people in Recife

News - 12.08.21

Throughout the 30 years in which she’s lived in the Linha Community, in the Ibura neighbourhood of Recife, Terezinha Francisca de Jesus has been one of the area’s great pillars of strength and resistance.  In the absence of the public authorities, she describes how she has opened up her home for meetings, to receive orders […]

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Helivete Bezerra: “the evangelical church will advance in the anti-racist struggle when it includes black women in the ministry”

News - 07.08.21

  As part of Black Women’s July – and for 25 July: International Afro-Latin American and Afro-Caribbean Women’s Day (in Portuguese) – ALC News interviewed CESE’s new President, Pastor Helivete Bezerra. Helivete Bezerra is a graduate in Psychology from the University of Pernambuco (Universidade de Pernambuco, 2014) and in Theology from the Methodist University of […]

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Migrant women participate in entrepreneurship training cycle

News - 05.08.21

The Casa na Luz project, made possible through CESE’s small projects programme, provides activities for refugees in São Paulo Venezuelans, Haitians, Angolans and Bolivians.  These women came to Brazil from different parts of the Americas and Africa, hopeful of better days and have encountered numerous challenges, but also welcome and hope.  Supported by the Small […]

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From the apparently simple to the most elaborate, digital security strategies and self-protection are fundamental to quilombola populations

News - 27.07.21

Drafts, notes or reminders – some of the names for something that’s become increasingly common: that group on a messaging app in which only the smartphone owner participates.  They are generally used to note down important things – ideas, appointments, agendas, etc.  Despite being common practice, this is not a secure strategy. The companies that […]

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CESE supports Housing Movements in São Paulo to distribute food and information

News - 26.07.21

Initiative of the Union of Housing Movements raises funds and other support to help vulnerable communities The pandemic has widened the chasm of social inequality, further penalizing street populations, street vendors and residents of peripheral communities in the large Brazilian metropolises, particularly São Paulo.  The Union of Housing Movements (União dos Movimentos de Moradia) rolled […]

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From knowledge production to the struggle for education and mental health: young people get mobilized during the pandemic

News - 23.07.21

According to Jeane Sacramento, the number of young people from around Bahia who are members of the Movement of Artisanal Fishermen and Women (Movimento de Pescadores e Pescadoras Artesanais: MPP) and are entering university has risen.  As a young woman, she points out that one of the reasons for this growth is a desire for […]

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