News

September 2025

• An online workshop was held to develop the 1st Sexual and Reproductive Health Handbook for Indigenous Youth: information on health, body, and rights, with a focus on territories in the Northeast, with representatives from the health and education sector of Indigenous peoples in the Northeast (project team in partnership with UNFPA/UN and the APOINME Women’s Directorate).
• An online workshop was held to prepare for the Artistic Residency: Reproductive Justice in the Territories, with artists from the Xukuru and Pankararu peoples and artists from the outskirts of Recife, facilitated by Manoel Quitério, Sarah Nazareth, and Anouk (project team).

• Presentation of the article ‘Is there reproductive justice for indigenous women in Brazil?’ at the Panel “‘Human Development Frontiers: Gender Equality, Public Health and Education” during the 28th IPSA World Congress of Political Science 2025, Seoul, South Korea (International Political Science Association – IPSA) (Carina Calabria).
• Convening of the Interest Group “Reproductive Justice and Democracy” during the ICON-S Annual Conference 2025, Brasília/DF, Brazil (International Society of Public Health – ICON) (Atina Krajewska, Carina Calabria, Carla Aparecida Arena Ventura, Elisa Urbano Ramos and Roseane Cordeiro de Oliveira).
• Presentation of the Panel “Examining Reproductive Justice with Indigenous women from the Northeast of Brazil” during the ICON-S Annual Conference 2025, Brasília/DF, Brazil (International Society of Public Health – ICON):
  • Building Reproductive Justice with Indigenous Women in Brazil: challenging rights, access to health and the concept of cuerpo-territorio (Atina Krajewska e Carina Calabria)
  • The constructions of sexual and reproductive health/illness of Xukuru Indigenous Women (Maria Roseane Cordeiro de Oliveira)
  • The constructions of sexual and reproductive health/illness of Pankararu Indigenous Women (Elisa Urbano Ramos).
• Participation, as a speaker, in the parallel event to ICON-S organized by the Center for Reproductive Rights “Current Challenges and Future Opportunities for Reproductive Rights” with Alexandra Sandoval (Judge of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace of Colombia), Silvia Suteu (Professor at the European University Institute), Carmen Cecilia Martínez (Center for Reproductive Rights) and Flávia de Souza Oliveira (Mattos Filho) (Carina Calabria).
• Participation in the 1st National Conference of Indigenous Women and the 4th March of Indigenous Women in Brasília (project team).
• Oral presentation during the solemn session honoring the 4th Indigenous Women’s March, held at the Chamber of Deputies in Brasília, Federal District. The purpose of the solemn session was to celebrate and recognize the strength, struggle, and protagonism of Indigenous women throughout Brazil, who continue to defend their rights, territories, bodies, and ancestral knowledge (Elisa Urbano Ramos). Elisa Urbano Ramos, a researcher on the project, was one of the 38 women honored. Watch the full video on APOINME’s official website.

May/June 2025

• Held the workshop ‘Female Recoveries: body, health and ancestry’ (project team).
• Participation in the 25th Assembly of the Xukuru People of Ororubá ‘Limolaygo Toype: From the Violated Past to the Criminalized Present, We Will Resist!’ in the Xukuru Territory of Ororubá, Pedra D’Água Village, Mandaru Space, municipality of Pesqueira (project team). More information here.
• Participation in the JUREMA regional stage (Pernambuco, Alagoas, Sergipe and northern Bahia) which precedes the first National Conference of Indigenous Women under the theme “Confronting violence against indigenous women” (Elisa Urbano Ramos, Roseane Cordeiro).
• Participation in the 1st Ancestral Medicine Seminar ‘Jurema: science, care and protection’ (Elisa Urbano Ramos, Roseane Cordeiro).
• Participation in the MANGABEIRA regional stage (Paraíba, Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Piauí and southern Bahia), which precedes the first National Conference of Indigenous Women under the theme “Confronting violence against indigenous women” (Elisa Urbano Ramos).

February 2025

• Participation in the Expert Panel ‘Engage Amazonia: The Role of Academia to Bring Solutions to Global Challenges’ Celebrate Amazonia: Brazilian Carnival : 25-28 February 2025, organized by the Brazil Institute, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom (Carina Calabria). More information here.
• Roundtable “Big Questions Linked to Key Global Challenges with Researchers”, discussing the question of: ‘How do we build an equitable and culturally sensitive healthcare system that includes and incorporates Indigenous beliefs and practices?‘, Celebrate Amazonia: Brazilian Carnival on Campus: 25-28 February 2025, organized by the Brazil Institute, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom (Atina Krajewska Carina Calabria, Roseane Cordeiro). More information here.

November 2024

• Participation in the Forum on “Memory, Truth, Full Reparation, Non-Repetition and Justice for Indigenous Peoples”, established by APIB as ‘a space for inter-institutional articulation and dialogue, which aims to analyze the history of violence and crimes committed against Indigenous peoples in Brazil over time, with an emphasis on the period of the military dictatorship, and, especially, to formulate a proposal for the establishment of a National Indigenous Truth Commission’, Brasília-DF, Brazil. (Elisa Urbano Ramos). More information here.
• Roundtable “Localized researchers: between knowledge and experiences”, IX Cirkula 2024 ‘Localized Perspectives: practices and challenges in Anthropology’, PPGA/UFPE, Recife-PE, Brazil (Elisa Urbano Ramos). More information here.
• Meeting with Pankararu women as part of the “Cunhã Crodí” Project, bringing together Indigenous women from Bahia, Pernambuco, Ceará and Alagoas in the process of training and sharing knowledge. The Cunhã Crodí Project is managed by We World Brasil (@weworld.brasil), supported by Adelco (@adelcobrasil), the Indigenous organization Articulação das Mulheres Indígenas do Ceará – Amice (@amice_mulheresindigenas.ce), Anaí (@anai_associacaoindigenista), Esplar (@cpaesplar), and the Indigenous women’s group Filhas da Ancestridade (@filhasdaancestralidade). The project team includes 10 women from Bahia, Pernambuco, Ceará, and Alagoas. Funding is provided by the Ministry of Women. (Elisa Urbano Ramos) More information here.
• IV Indigenous Cosmovision Panel at the 1st International Seminar on Rural Education and Education in Rural Territories, organized by the Education Center of the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB), João Pessoa-PB, Brazil (Elisa Urbano Ramos). More information here.
• Participation in the seminar organised by the Center for Ecologies, Epistemologies and Emancipatory Health Promotion (Neepes/ENSP/Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brazil (Elisa Urbano Ramos). More information here.
• 8th International Forum for Racial Equality and Social Inclusion of Recôncavo: ‘Feminisms Revisited: a tribute to Luiza Bairros”, panelist at Panel 8: Black and Indigenous Feminisms” , Black and Indigenous Feminisms, Decolonial Thought and the Production of Knowledge, PROPAE/UFPB, Location: QUILOMBO KAONGE (PPGCI Auditorium), Cruz das Almas, Bahia, Brazil (Elisa Urbano Ramos). More information here.
  
  

October 2024

• Participation in the VIII Meeting of Shamans, Midwives and Holders of Traditional Knowledge, Pankararu Entre Serras Territory, Aldeia Barriguda, Tacaratu-PE, Brazil (Elisa Urbano Ramos, Roseane Cordeiro Oliveira).
• Seminar on Warrior Women and Ancestry in the course on Pedagogy and Indigenous Education at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Belo Horizonte-MG, Brazil (Elisa Urbano Ramos and Mãe Dora).

August 2024

• Seminar on Indigenous Health and Well-Being organized by SESAI, Paulista-PE, Brazil (Elisa Urbano Ramos).

June 2024

• II Consultation Workshops, improving research objectives and presenting initial project findings – meetings with Indigenous women from the Xukuru and Pankararu peoples, Xukuru and Pankararu Territories, Pernambuco, Brazil (project team).
• Meeting hosted by the British Embassy in Brazil to discuss issues involving Reproductive Justice and Indigenous Women’s Health with Baroness Anelay of St Johns, a representative of the English Parliament during the 1st P20 Women Parliamentarians’ Meeting — within the scope of the G20 Legislative Forum, Maceió-AL, Brazil (Carina Calabria, Roseane Cordeiro). More information here.
• Presentation “Cuerpo Territorio or Territorio Cuerpo: legal texts and realities of the regulation of sexual and reproductive healthcare for Indigenous women in Northeast of Brazil”, Workshop on Health Inequalities, University of Birmingham, UK (Atina Krajewska).

March/April 2024

• Participation in the National Meeting on Equity in Work and Education in the SUS “Equality of Race, Ethnicity and Gender”, Brasília-DF, Brazil (Elisa Urbano Ramos).
• Participation in a meeting on traditional knowledge in the Xukuru Territory, Pesqueira-PE, Brazil (Elisa Urbano Ramos).
• Participation in plenary sessions at APOINME tent and in the ANMIDA tent on the rights and health of indigenous girls and women, including the discussion on Reproductive Justice during the Terra Livre Camp, Brasília-DF, Brazil (Elisa Urbano Ramos).

January/February 2024

• Participation in the meeting of the Local Indigenous Health Council, to plan the Meeting of Shamans, Midwives and Holders of Traditional Knowledge that will take place in the second half of 2024, Indigenous Land Entre Serras Pankararu, Tacaratu-PE, Brazil (Elisa Urbano Ramos ).

November/December 2023

• Conference ‘Traditional Justice Systems of Indigenous Peoples in the State of Pernambuco’, Panel ‘Projects of the Solano Trindade Public Notice (FACEPE)’, Network Seminar and International Seminar of the Stricto Senso Postgraduate Program, Joaquim Nabuco Foundation, Recife-PE, Brazil (Carina Calabria). More information here.
• Seminar showcasing the research project ‘Building Reproductive Justice with Indigenous Women in Brazil’, launched by the University of Birmingham Brazil Institute, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK (project team). More information here.
• Seminar presentation “Negotiating the autonomy of Indigenous researchers and participants in the context of a research project in Brazil – the limits of decolonising methodologies”, Red Lines, Red Tapes: Ethical Challenges in Sensitive Research in Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Warsaw, Poland. (Atina Krajewska e Carina Calabria). More information here.

October 2023

• Participation in the 7th Meeting of Pajés, Midwives and Holders of Traditional Knowledge in the Kambiwá Indigenous Territory (Carina Calabria, Elisa Urbano Ramos, Roseane Cordeiro Oliveira).
• Participation in a SUS Workshop on Equity of Race, Gender and Ethnicity and Valorisation of SUS Women Workers (Elisa Urbano Ramos). More information here.
• Participation of the ABRASCO (Congress of the Brazilian Association of Collective Health) (Carina Calabria and Elisa Urbano Ramos). More information here.

August/September 2023

• Conference Presentation at XII Meeting of Empirical Research in Law , Law Faculty, Federal University of Goiás (Carina Calabria). More information here and here.
• Participation of the Local Indigenous Health Meeting (Roseane Cordeiro Oliveira).

June/July 2023

• Participation of the Indigenous Voices Workshop organised by FIOCRUZ (Elisa Urbano Ramos).
• Participation of the Meeting of Indigenous Women from Minas Gerais (Elisa Urbano Ramos).

April/May 2023

• Participation of the Xukuru Assembly in the panel “Comparative Perspectives on Indigenous Rights: The Struggle for Justice in Domestic and International Courts,” XXIII Assembly of the Xukuru Indigenous People of Ororubá, Limolaygo Toype (Land of the Ancestors): Mandarú Preparing Minds, to Sow Seeds, Territory of the Xukuru Indigenous People of Ororubá, Vila Pedra D’Água, Pesqueira, Brazil (Carina Calabria, Elisa Urbano Ramos, Roseane Cordeiro de Oliveira). More information here and here.
• Seminar “Building Inclusive Sexual and Reproductive Health Laws and Policies Addressing Brazilian Indigenous Women” in the panel “The Role of Rights Discourse and Practice in the Process of Social and Gender Transformation in Contemporary Latin America,” Congress: Latin America and the Caribbean: Thinking, Representing, and Fighting for Rights, LASA 2023, Vancouver, Canada (Carina Calabria and Atina Krajewska). More information here.

• Launch seminar for the research project “Building Reproductive Justice with Indigenous Women from Northeast Brazil,” Recife Law School, University of Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil (project team). More information here.
• Consultation workshop, refinement of research objectives, and co-production of the code of ethics for the research project with Indigenous women from the Xukuru do Ororubá people, Xukuru Indigenous Territory, Pernambuco, Brazil (project team).
• Consultation workshop, refinement of research objectives, and co-production of the code of ethics for the research project with Indigenous women from the Pankararu people, Pankararu Indigenous Territory, Pernambuco, Brazil (project team).
• Seminar “Dialogues between Latin America and Europe?” and lecture on Reproductive Justice, Human Rights Center, Law School, UNISINOS, São Leopoldo, RS, Brazil (Atina Krajewska and Carina Calabria).