Brazil | Executive Director, CEPIA
Former President of the Brazilian National Council for Women's Rights
Jacqueline Pitanguy is the founder and executive director of CEPIA, a non-profit dedicated to promoting human and civil rights in Brazil, especially among groups historically excluded from exercising their full citizenship.
She is also a sociologist and political scientist, and was a professor at the Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and Rutgers University. From 1986 to 1989, she held a cabinet position as president of the National Council for Women’s Rights (CNDM), designing and implementing public policies to improve women’s conditions in Brazil.
In 1990 she founded CEPIA: Citizenship, Studies, Information, and Action, a non-governmental organization based in Rio de Janeiro, and has been its executive director since then. She is also the president of the board of the Brazil Fund for Human Rights.
Pitanguy joined the Dialogue as a Member in 1992.
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Jacqueline Pitanguy has recently published a book titled Feminismo no Brasil: Memórias de quem fez acontecer or “Feminism in Brazil: Memories of those who made it happen” alongside Branca Moreira Alves.
A Latin America Advisor Q&A featuring experts’ viewpoints on the progress and challenges of gender representation in Brazilian politics.
In Brazil, the possibility of pregnant women with Zika having access to abortion has not entered the public debate.
