News

March 2023

• Project Launch at Recife Law School, University of Pernambuco (project team).
• Co-production Workshops with Indigenous Women: Pankararu and Xukuru Territory, Pernambuco (project team).
• Seminars and Lectures concerning Reproductive Justice at UNISINOS, São Leopoldo, Rio Grande do Sul (Atina Krajewska & Carina Calabria).

May 2023

• Participation of the Assembly Xukuru in the panel ‘Fighting for justice in domestic and international courts’ at the Xukuru territory (Carina Calabria, Elisa Urbano Ramos, Roseane Cordeiro de Oliveira).
• Conference presentation “Building inclusive sexual and reproductive health laws and policies addressing Brazilian indigenous women”, Congress: América Latina y el Caribe: Pensar, Representar y Luchar por los Derechos, Vancouver, Canada (Carina Calabria & Atina Krajewska).

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).

August 2023

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

October 2023

• Participation in the 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).
• Participation of the ABRASCO (Congress of the Brazilian Association of Collective Health) (Carina Calabria and Elisa Urbano Ramos).

November 2023

• Showcase at the Launch of Brazilian Institute, University of Birmingham, UK (project team).
• Conference 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.

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 ).

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).

May 2024

• Presentation of the project “Building reproductive justice with indigenous women in the Northeast of Brazil” at the CONDISI/PE meeting, Belo Jardim-PE, Brazil (Elisa Urbano Ramos).
• Participation in the “Seminar of Indigenous women from the Caatinga Biome”, promoted by the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, Brasília-DF, Brazil (Elisa Urbano Ramos).
• Participation in the the 33rd Anniversary Seminar at the Intersectoral Commission for Indigenous Health (CISI ), Brasília-DF, Brazil (Elisa Urbano Ramos).
• Presentation “Indigenous Reproductive Justice”, XXIV Assembly of the Xukuru Indigenous People of Ororubá “Mandaru: cultivating the roots, preparing new generations and fighting against criminalization”, Territory of the Xukuru Indigenous People of Ororubá, Vila Pedra D’Água, Pesqueira- PE, Brazil (project team). More information here.
• Presentation on “Sociology of Global Health Law”, XIV Congress of ABRaSD, Faculty of Law, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Atina Krajewska and Carina Calabria). More information here.
• Meetings with representatives from the Ministry of Human Rights, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Women and Ministry of Indigenous Peoples, Brasília-DF, Brazil (Atina Krajewska and Carina Calabria).

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).
• 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).

August 2024

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

• 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).