Beatriz Galli is Policy and Human Rights Advisor for Ipas Brazil. Beatriz obtained her law degree from the University of Toronto, where she was a fellow in the International Program for Sexual Health and Reproductive Rights from 2001 to 2002. She represented Brazil in the International Center for Justice and Rights (CEJIL), a non-governmental organization. In addition, she worked as a program assistant for the Ford Foundation in the areas of Human Rights and Reproductive Health, and was Program Coordinator on Gender and Human Rights at the German Foundation Heinrich Boell in Rio de Janeiro. She has worked for Ipas Brazil as Policy Associate since 2006.
Will Rousseff and Brazil’s other leaders summon up the will to truly stand up for women’s rights? Will they tackle one of the true solutions to high maternal mortality: decriminalization of abortion and measures that could effectively reduce deaths related to unsafe abortions?
A new law passed in the dead of night by Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff violates all women’s right to privacy by creating compulsory registration to control and monitor her reproductive life.
2010 was a benchmark year for the debate around abortion legalization in Brazil. For the first time, we saw debates during a Presidential election being mostly guided by religious beliefs around sexual and reproductive rights.
