Confronting violence against women: dialogues between health and human rights

The extension project entitled “Facing violence against women: dialogues between health and human rights” is developed by the School of Nursing of Ribeirão Preto, University of São Paulo and the Civil Society Organization (OSC) Casa da Mulher – Associação de Assistência , study and research, in partnership with the Faculty of Law of Ribeirão Preto of the University of São Paulo, School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities of the University of São Paulo, State University of Campinas and University of São Carlos This initiative is supported by the Collective Health Studies League (LASC), Center for Studies and Research in Collective Health Profa Dr Maria Cecília Puntel de Almeida (NUPESCO) and the Rho Upsilon Chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (STTI).

The project runs from September 2021 to December 2022 and has subsidies from the Pro-Rectory of Culture and University Extension of USP, funded by EDITAL 02/2021, whose objective is to financially support projects that demonstrate their link with culture and extension university through the application and dissemination of their knowledge, and other initiatives aimed at interacting with society. Among the objectives of the extension project, actions to promote the debate on the prevention and confrontation of violence against women stand out; production of educational technology (booklet) for dissemination on the theme of violence to be used in the CSO Casa da Mulher, both for health education activities and in the Training Course for Popular Legal Promoters (PLP) and collaboration in the Training Course of PLP. In the actions carried out by the project, a conversation wheel on sexual and reproductive rights in the “Locomotiva” community of Ribeirão Preto on 12/04/2021 stands out Development of the Seminar “Talking about gender, race and class: dialogues between health and human rights” on December 1st and 2nd, 2021 on 12/10) promoted the debate on the awareness and context of struggle of black women in the field of rights and health. Development of the Seminar “Preventing and confronting violence: strengthening human rights”, on 07/02/2022, 07/23/2022, 08/06/2022 and 08/20/2022, which made it possible to discuss violence against women women and girls, public policies to face violence and the challenges posed to face violence in the context of the demands arising from the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic, which causes the disease COVID19. Finally, we highlight the production of the booklet that will be launched and disseminated in September, both in print format, in Portuguese, and in digital format in Portuguese, English, Spanish and French, with a view to enabling the

Confronting violence against women: dialogues between health and human rights

dissemination of the material to the immigrant women residing in Ribeirão Preto.

The project was coordinated by professors Angelina Lettiere Viana and Juliana Cristina dos Santos Monteiro, both members of the Rho Upsilon Chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing (STTI)

Seminar “Talking about gender, race and class: dialogues between health and human rights”

To access the recorded session of the seminar, click on each image

Discussion round about sexual and reproductive rights in the “Locomotiva” community of Ribeirão Preto on 12/04/2021