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“Dreams – Common Lives in Extraordinary Times”

by Henri Valot last modified 2007-08-09 19:35
What Aid Debt Trade General Gender Equality br
When 2007-08-15 08:30 to
2007-08-16 08:30
Where Brasilia
Contact Name Cassuça Benevides
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Since the aspects of women were chosen to be the main perspective for the GCAP 2007, the Brazilian coalition decided to follow it by doing a cultural and political event about women that will be amplified to the South American and Caribbean coalition. So by the Brazilian coalition this event will take place in Brasília (August 15th) and Fortaleza (September 17th) and by the Latin American and Caribbean coalition the event will take place in Lima , Peru (November 25th).

For the event of the Brazilian coalition there will be activities such as a photography exposition, a film festival, a series of public debates women and the discrimination.

  • The photographs are from Carolina Benshemesh, a British photographer that took photos from women in Palestine , Israel , Cuba and Brazil . She will also publish her book, Dreams – common lives in extraordinary times, from which the exposition will be maid.
  • The films are from Latin America, Israel , Palestine , India and Afria. They are about the theme: “women and inequality” on it’s various aspects such as poverty, discrimination, power, sexuality, migration, etc.
  • For the debates we are inviting feminists, female politicians, professors and activists to contribute with discussions about the themes: 1) The women participation in politics of the Latin American countries. 2) The challenge of the civil society to amplify and fortify the rights for women. 3) The violence against women, their need for special health public policies and the reproductive rights

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Did You Know......
  • Over 1 billion people live on less than $1 a day with nearly half the world’s population (2.8 billion) living on less than $2 a day.
  • Between 1990–92 and 2001–03, the number of hungry people in Brazil decreased from 18.5 million to 14.4 million and the prevalence from 12 to 8 percent of the population.
  • In 1988 there were some 350 000 polio cases worldwide; by January 2005 there were only 1185 cases reported.
  • UNESCO say in the 2007 Global Monitoring Report, that Universal primary education would cost $11 billion a year … that's half what Americans spend on ice cream.
  • Globally, as of 2005, an estimated 15.2 million children under 18 have lost one or both parents to AIDS; about 80 per cent of these children live in sub-Saharan Africa.
  • International trade is worth $10 million a minute. 70% of this is controlled by multinational corporations.

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