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Preventing the Next Kabul: Confronting the Houthi’s Violent Suppression of Women in Yemen
By Moammar Al-Eryani on March 24, 2023
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15th Anniversary of the Maria da Penha Law: Long Road Towards Protecting Brazilian Women

By Brazil Institute, Natália Tosi & Barbara Vasconcelos Cimatti on August 2, 2021
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Natália Tosi

Staff Assistant Intern
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Barbara Vasconcelos Cimatti

Graduate Intern

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The Brazil Institute—the only country-specific policy institution focused on Brazil in Washington—works to foster understanding of Brazil’s complex reality and to support more consequential relations between Brazilian and U.S. institutions in all sectors.  Read more

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