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The price of gender inequality: discrimination against women in the labor market costs the global economy $28 trillion
Relatório lançado pelo McKinsey Global Institute mostra quanto custa excluir as mulheres do mercado de trabalho. Só a América Latina contribuiria com quase 3 trilhões de dólares para o PIB mundial até 2025.
Women of Brazil: leaders together in building a better country
Mulheres do Brasil is a group of women who have come together to discuss issues such as education, entrepreneurship, quotas for women and social projects. The coordinators of the ELAS Fund are members of the group, which brings together around 700 women.
Women 360 Movement Association: for gender equity inside and outside companies
A MM360 é uma associação empresarial dedicada a incentivar o empoderamento econômico das mulheres brasileiras. O Fundo ELAS conversou com Margareth Goldenberg sobre a iniciativa inédita e o papel das empresas na luta pela equidade de gênero.
Black Consciousness in Brazil: Dandara's day
The date celebrates and honors Dandara dos Palmares, a quilombola warrior as important as Zumbi. Check out some Black Awareness Day activities. The ELAS Fund defends the importance of celebrating black culture and fighting racism all year round.
Public Call 'black women and Popular' selects projects
CESE and SOS Corpo invite grassroots organizations and movements to participate in the selection of projects until 30/11. The aim is to strengthen organizations from black women and popular sectors in the North and Northeast of Brazil.
ELAS Fund supports unprecedented mobilization of black women in the country
ELAS has supported the black women movement in Brazil since it was founded and will also be taking part in the black women March. For the ELAS Fund, supporting the March of black women is an ethical and political principle, says Amalia Fischer, general coordinator.
Women from across the country will march in Brasilia for women's rights black women
Board members of the ELAS Fund, which since its foundation has supported the black women movement in the country, talk about the importance of this unprecedented mobilization that will take place in Brasilia on November 18.
Violence against black women in Brazil on the rise
black women are marching for an end to feminicide black women and for the investigation of all cases of domestic violence and murder black women, with the guilty being penalized.
ELAS Fund partner Coletivo Mangueiras launches campaign on Sexual and Reproductive Rights
Funded by IPPF/WHR, the campaign aims to make it easier for adolescents and young people to access information on sexual and reproductive rights in a simple and straightforward way.
Rio Institute launches call for proposals to support socio-cultural projects in the West Zone of Rio de Janeiro
Serão doados R$ 264 mil reais para apoiar um total de 12 projetos com 22 mil reais para cada. As inscrições podem ser feitas até 25 de janeiro de 2016.
ELAS Fund entrepreneurship manager participates in US State Department exchange program
Eliana Custódio is taking part in the International Visitor Leadership Program throughout November. Eliana is part of a group of visitors made up of leaders from different parts of Brazil.
Lúcia Xavier is running for the position of ombudsman general of the Public Defender's Office of the State of Rio de Janeiro
The ELAS Fund advisor and coordinator of the NGO Criola forms the triple list of candidates with Pedro Daniel Strozenberg and Nathalia Carlos da Silva. Lúcia emphasizes the importance of social movements occupying this space.