The 2023 Roundtable of the Process of International Networking and Dialogue (Processo de Articulação e Diálogo Internacional: PAD) took place on 5 and 6 October at the Sítio Titara, in Planaltina de Goiás. Alongside its Executive Coordination Office – made up of...
Organizing events is a way to raise funds and a methodology commonly used by churches and grassroots groups that want to raise funds and receive support for their causes. However, these activities don’t always provide a good return. “Normally, when organizations...
Seven female rural workers’ organizations from five states received support from CESE’s Small Projects Programme to join the 2023 Margaridas March. The event took place on 15 and 16 August in Brasilia. More than 100 thousand people were engaged in this...
On 30 September, after a four-year hiatus, CESE resumed its traditional Solidary Feijoada, a milestone in the Spring for Life Campaign. Over a day full of great music from Robherval and Ito Araújo, good food and much joy, more than 250 people visited CESE’s...
Letter from our Ecumenical Mission ... they shall turn their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into sickles (c.f. Isaiah 2:4) “Transforming the evil of the bullet into grace.” (Anacleta Pires – quilombola leader) From 4 to 6 September 2023, with drums,...
This article is available in Portuguese This article is available in Spanish Between 4 and 6 September, in coordination with CESE and in partnership with a number of organizations, the ACT (Brazil) Ecumenical Forum (Fórum Ecumênico ACT Brasil: FEACT) held its 5th...
Communications Workshop – Can you talk your woes away? The challenge of communications in the struggles of Women from the Northeast. “Can you talk your woes away?” This was the question that guided the 3-day meeting of women from social movements in the Northeast...
Since 2015, femicide has been considered a crime in Brazil; throughout history it has been one of the most perverse demonstrations of the patriarchy in society. According to Eleonora Menicucci, sociologist and ex-minister for the Department for Women’s Policies,...
In 2022, the Cerrado and its babassu palm trees were under threat in the state of Tocantins. Draft law 776/2022, proposed by Deputy Olyntho Neto (Republicans)m planned to overturn the Free Babassu Law which prohibits the burning, felling and predatory use of...
Criminal fires, the drying up of the rivers, the death of the plantations, women disproportionately suffering the impact of pesticides and climate change. All these aspects were reported by the various representatives who participated in the “Exchange between the...
