By Lucyvanda Amorim (CESE - Coordenadoria Ecumênica de Serviço) As a human rights organisation supporting grassroots movements in Brazil for 51 years, CESE – Coordenadoria Ecumênica de Serviço – views training as a critical strategy to strengthen the fight for rights....
With support from the Ecumenical Coordination of Service’s (CESE) Small Projects Programme, the Aspodex Association (Association of the Deni People of the Xeruã River), led by Pha Avi Hava Deni, of the Deni people, took part in the 3rd Indigenous Women's March in...
In September, a Brazilian delegation, made up of representatives from the Process of International Networking and Dialogue - PAD, the Coalition for Monitoring Human Rights in Brazil, the National Human Rights Movement - MNDH and SOS Corpo, took part in a meeting in...
“Dona Neura was a historic defender of the Cerrado and of agrarian reform, with a deep passion for forests and plants,” recalls Amélia Franz, a settler in the municipality of Palmeiras de Goiás, about her comrade in arms, who was brutally murdered by her ex-husband,...
The Agro is Fire Coalition (Articulação Agro é Fogo) publicly denounces the systematic and orchestrated incidents of criminal fires around Brazil, which have had major a impact on the population, fauna and flora of Brazil's various biomes. The fires have left huge...
In order to review the Master Plan for Fortaleza (Ceará) and strengthen its institutional organization, the Front for the Housing Struggle (Frente de Luta por Moradia: FLM) received funding from CESE, through its Small Projects Programme. The Master Plan is an urban...
It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of our dear friend, Pastor Helivete Ribeiro. A fighter, a feminist pastor, she held the positions of both CESE’s Vice-President (2018-2021) and President (2021-2022). We will always remember her for her sensitivity,...
“At this very moment, our leaders are being persecuted because of religious fundamentalism legitimized by certain public authorities. This course is extremely important for the grassroots movement, because it provides us with the arguments needed to go into battle,...
One of the biggest contradictions of the climate crisis is that those who are most affected by it are also those who least contribute to it. Quilombos, indigenous lands and other territories where traditional peoples live are the best preserved on the planet. The...
United by their ancestry, indigenous women from the Amazon raised their voices in defence of their rights and in their struggle for respect and appreciation of their cultures in the face of the growing threats. The meeting “Indigenous Women of the Amazon” is part of...
