Leila Linhares Barsted and Jacqueline Pitanguy highlight some of the findings of research developed by CEPIA,1 with the support of SID. The main purpose is to analyse the role that television, and more specifically soap operas, play in the socialization of domestic workers in Brazil, especially...

Jacqueline Pitanguy and Rosana Heringer, in a review of the last decade of civil society action on trade and economic liberalization, argue that a social and human rights agenda has to accompany the processes of economic integration. They suggest that the impact of September 11th shows more than...

Jacqueline Pitanguy outlines the political context of the ICPD +5 process on the basis of her work in Brazil and internationally on reproductive rights. She argues that the women's movement has to continue to lobby hard to decrease the gap between what has been promised and the reality of most...