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ANIS: Institute of Bioethics, Human Rights, and Gender is the only not-for-profit, non-governmental organization in Latin America devoted to bioethics research, advocacy, and education. With its headquarters in Brasília, ANIS has been conducting its activities since 1999 through a multidisciplinary team of seasoned bioethics professionals. In 2002, ANIS was included as a bioethics research institution in the directory of the Brazilian National Research Council.
Bioethics is a political and academic mechanism for intervention in moral conflicts arising from health issues. It covers some hard-to-mediate moral matters which include abortion, euthanasia, new reproductive technologies, the Human Genome Project, cloning, and genetic information.
ANIS bases its work on bioethical issues related to human reproduction, such as abortion, reproductive technologies, cloning, and the Human Genome Project. Along the theoretical and political guidelines of feminism and human rights, ANIS conducts its activities by way of four major programs.
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Film Screened as Evidence in Brazilian Supreme Court Hearings
For the first time in history, a film was used as evidence in the Brazilian Supreme Court last week....
Regions: Brazil
Issues: Food & health & development, Independence of the judiciary, Reproductive rights
A Disembodied Woman (À Margem do Corpo)
The events portrayed in this film took place in a small town between 1996 and 1998. Deuseli was 19 years-old when she was brutally raped....
Regions: Brazil
Issues: Rape and sexual abuse, Violence against women
Brazil: Alone and Anonymous (Solitário Anônimo)
An elderly man lying on the grass waiting to die. In his pocket, a message announced that he was from a distant land. He had no documents or any possessions....
Regions: Brazil
Brazil: Severina's Story (Uma História Severina)
Severina had her destiny changed by a Supreme Court decision....
Regions: Brazil
Issues: Reproductive rights, Violence against women
Abortion in Brazil: Documentary - Habeas Corpus
The documentary is about Tatielle’s suffering, a young woman from Morrinhos, a town in Goiás state’s rural area....
Regions: Brazil
Issues: Independence of the judiciary, Reproductive rights, Violence against women
Four Women (Quem são elas?)
July, 2004. The Brazilian Supreme Court temporarily authorized pregnant women carrying anencephalic fetuses to interrupt their pregnancies (abortion is illegal in Brazil)....