In Brazil, 27 April is National Domestic Workers Day, in honour of Saint Zita, an Italian woman who is the profession’s patron saint. Beyond this religious reference, 27 April is a date for the struggles and demands of a labour category whose profile represents a...
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Echoes from the Pedagogy of Steel: other contours in the struggle for land in Brazil
“Candelária,Carandiru,Corumbiara,Eldorado dos Carajás…[...] The pedagogy of steel strikes the body, this atrocious geography” * Twenty-eight years ago, newspapers and newscasts around the world carried headlines depicting brutality against rural workers. Images...
Movement of Women from the Northeast stitch together reflections and weave resistance in first 2024 meeting
Women’s movements and organizations are like different pieces of fabric! A patchwork quilt of threads that criss-cross stories, tracing pathways and constructing plurality. Through the metaphor of the art of sewing, women’s organizations from the Northeast...
Grassroots organizations in Pará discuss fundraising strategies as part of CESE training course
To raise awareness and mobilize religious communities to coordinate their local fundraising work, as a strategy for institutional sustainability. This was the aim of the Local Fundraising Course held between 19 and 22 March in the city of Belém (Pará). The training is...
Approximately one thousand women relaunch Rural and Urban Women’s Camp
Between 6 and 8 March, approximately one thousand women came together in Salvador’s Parque de Exposições for the 13th edition of the Rural and Urban Women’s Camp. The activity is part of the March the Month of Struggles, with the slogan “We will fight for our...
International cooperation agency Bread for the World/ Brot für Die Welt visits CESE
On 4 and 5 March, CESE was visited by two representatives of the Bread for the World/ Brot für Die Welt agency - Martina Winkler, Coordinator of the Brazil Country Programme and Christof Wünsch, Head of the Department for Latin America and the Caribbean. The aim of...
CESE participates in meeting to assess and plan for the Change the Game Academy (CtGA) Alliance
“Promoting self-sufficiency in communities and organizations by mobilizing support and local resources for sustainable change.” This was the mission agreed at the annual “Directors Meet” which brought together 50 representatives of 17 countries, members of the “Change...
March the Month of Struggle: Christian women in power and decision-making arenas
Have you ever seen Christian women in arenas of power? The fact is that in most faith communities, women have faced the indoctrinating force of the Christian patriarchy and have sought to occupy leadership arenas within the churches. “I see the ministry of women in...
The strength and resistance of indigenous women from the Cerrado
The training meeting “Indigenous Women in the Cerrado in defence of their rights” was part of the project “Patak Maymu: Autonomy and participation of indigenous women from the Amazon and the Cerrado in the defence of their rights”. Training sessions took place between...
Renewable energy yes, but not like this: wind energy conflict in Paraíba
In March 2023, about 5 thousand women marched through the city of Montadas in the region of Borborema (in Paraíba), to raise awareness of the damage that the construction of a wind farm could have on their territories, the environment, their health and the future of...