Between February 17 and 20, representatives of the Ecumenical Coordination of Service (Coordenadoria Ecumênica de Serviço: CESE) attended the “Change the Game Alliance Meeting” in Kampala (Uganda). The initiative, which provides face-to-face and online courses in...
Rural women in Brazil work 27.50 unpaid hours a week. This includes household and care activities, to which men only dedicate 5.20 hours a week. These figures were released in 2016 by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. They also describe one of the...
The executive team of the Ecumenical Coordination of Service (Coordenadoria Ecumênica de Serviço: CESE) met on February 6 and 7 to collectively construct the organization's Annual Plan, dedicating two days to aligning institutional commitments with current projects...
“You can walk along the beds of rivers that have died; they remain dry all year round. You only see water in them on rainy days. After the rains, they dry up again” Communication from the Pastoral Land Commission (Comissão Pastoral da Terra: CPT) in Bahia Mapping work...
In November, Sussuarana, a neighborhood on the periphery of Salvador (in the state of Bahia), was the stage for an “Afro-culture Project” and the “22nd Black Consciousness March in Sussuarana”, both supported by the Ecumenical Coordination of Service (Coordenadoria...
Data from the National Survey on Violence against Women (2023), produced by the DataSenado Research Institute (Instituto de Pesquisa DataSenado) in partnership with the Observatory of Women against Violence (Observatório da Mulher contra a Violência), shows that...
“This celebration is not just a tribute; it is an act of resistance, a symbol of the preservation of our history, our culture and our faith.” It was with these words that Danielle Felício, President of the Iya Akobiodè Collective, summed up the event to mark the 10th...
In 2023, for the first time, deforestation in the Cerrado surpassed that of the Amazon. By September of that year, fire had consumed more than 8 million hectares in the biome. This figure is higher than those of the Amazon and Pantanal combined. In Tocantins, the fire...
Last year, the fires that spread across countless territories in Brazil had unimaginable impacts on traditional peoples and communities. In Rondônia, for the family of extractivist Vera Oliveira da Cruz, the harvesting of Brazil nuts, which should have totaled more...
The Zanetti Human Rights Prize marked the end of the celebrations for CESE's 50th anniversary, which was celebrated throughout 2024. Last December, CESE celebrated the winners of the Zanetti Human Rights Prize. Various organizations and human rights defenders gathered...
