The Maria Barroso Municipal Award will be launched by the Câmara de Lagoa on the 8th of March, International Women's Day.
This award, which is an initiative inscribed in the activity of the department for issues of equality, gender and citizenship, recently created by that municipality, will be announced by President Francisco Martins, shortly before the beginning of the debate “Gender issues: fracturing or structuring?”.
The debate, which will take place at the Municipal Auditorium of Lagoa, between 18 pm and 20 pm on the same 00th, will feature the participation of two women and two men: Isabel Bartal Abílio is a sociologist and deputy in the canton of Zurich (Switzerland), but she lived his childhood and youth in Lagoa. Capicua, who offstage is called Ana Matos Fernandes, is rapper, sociologist and feminist. Fernando Anastácio is deputy for the Algarve circle to the Assembly of the Republic. Moderation is in charge of Luís Castro, journalist from RTP and host of the “Civil Society” program.
Before, during the afternoon of the 8th, a Capicua show will take place at the Centro de Congressos do Arade, in a special offer to students from the municipality of Lagoa.
But the celebrations of the International Women's Day, in Lagoa, start this Sunday, March 4th, with the program starting at the Convento de S. José, with music by Ensemble “Les Violons d'Alienor”, an old music group from the Superior Conservatory of Music Pole Alienor de Poitiers, France.
On the 7th, the invitation is to discover a book and a conversation with its author Maria Helena do Carmo, at the Municipal Library.
“In 2018 the world marks seven decades of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Portugal approves a National Strategy for Equality and Non-Discrimination; Lagoa, Algarve declares itself as an Educating City, electing education as a priority cause for the local government. It is in this context that the Municipality of Lagoa proposes, between 4 and 8 March, the commemorations of International Women's Day, reinforcing an investment already recognized and awarded in the areas of gender equality and citizenship», explains the municipality, in a press release.
In 2018, the UN once again calls for “the International Women's Day to be an opportunity to raise a voice for all women to claim their rights”. For its part, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development indicates a path: “not leaving anyone behind”. And it defends human rights as "the foundation for all progress."
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