In order to discuss issues covering gender and sexuality, as well as seeking to draw up a joint overview of the struggle to guarantee human rights, the Postgraduate course in Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights (Sérgio Arouca National School of Public Health/Oswaldo Cruz Foundation) is promoting the event Dissident Dialogues: For the Right to Be, with the participation of KK Verdade, executive coordinator of the ELAS Fund. 

 

On April 18 and 19, 2016, ENSP's International Hall will host the seminar, which will feature professors, researchers, social movement activists and other social actors involved with the event's theme. Among the names already confirmed to lead the debates are, in addition to KK Verdade, Rio de Janeiro's special secretary for women's policies, Ana Rocha; researcher Sérgio Carrara, from UERJ's Institute of Social Medicine and Leonardo Peçanha, from the Brazilian Institute of Transmasculinities. KK Verdade will be on the panel Portraits of the Women's Struggle, which will take place on the 18th at 11am.

 

The two-day meeting is part of the 4th Seminar on Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights promoted by the Postgraduate Program, with the support of Fiocruz's Department of Human Rights, Health and Cultural Diversity (DIHS). Through lectures, panel discussions and conversation circles, participants will be able to delve deeper into the issues proposed at the seminar, which will also include moments of integration and cultural and artistic activities.

 

The event is free, open to the general public and aims to bring together students, academics, activists and people interested in building a scenario in which the expansion of rights and respect for minorities is the focus. Participants will be registered half an hour before the start of the seminar. There will be a certificate, just ask for it at the time of registration and provide the necessary details. 

 

9 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. - Registration

 

9h30 - 10h - Opening table - Dr. Paulo Gadelha (president of Fiocruz), Dr. Hermano Albuquerque de Castro (director of the National School of Public Health), Dr. Maria Helena Barros de Oliveira (head of the Human Rights, Health and Cultural Diversity department) and Vera Lucia Marques da Silva (coordinator of the specialization course in Gender, Sexuality and Human Rights).

 

10 - 11 a.m. - Opening Lecture - Ana Rocha - Special Secretary for Women's Policies of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro.

 

11 - 12h - Thematic panel: Portraits of the women's struggle

- Patrícia Nassif (DIHS/ENSP) - coordination

- KK Truth (ELAS Fund)

- Priscilla Brito (Free Feminist University)

• Elizabeth Fleury (Comitê Pró-Equidade de Gênero e Raça Fioc