July 20, 2026
A recente alteração da Lei n.º 33/2025 representa um grave retrocesso para os direitos das mulheres em Portugal.
July 12, 2026
The meeting was organised within the framework of the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges programme, under grant agreement No. 101130141. It brought together members of the international IPOV consortium to review the progress of the project, share scientific results, strengthen coordination between work packages and establish the next steps in the prevention of obstetric violence and the promotion of respectful maternity care.
July 6, 2026
As part of the IPOV – RESPECTFUL CARE project, Guillermo Javier De Cicco, researcher and obstetrician at the Maternal and Child Hospital of San Isidro, Argentina, will offer two conferences during his secondment at the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute – VHIR in Barcelona, Spain.
July 4, 2026
Patrizia Quattrocchi (UNIUD, Italy) and Anna Maria Rossetti (SEAO, Italy) were welcomed for their secondments at UTERUS–GIMNOGRÁVIDA in Porto, Portugal, by Isabel Ferreira and Diana Lopes, as part of the interdisciplinary and intersectoral staff exchange activities of the MSCA Staff Exchanges project IPOV RESPECTFULCARE.
July 2, 2026
The video documents Ilaria Mariani’s secondment at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) in Tarragona, Spain, within the framework of the European project IPOV – RESPECTFUL CARE, funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges programme.
July 2, 2026
As part of the public deliverable Production of reflective videos by early-stage researchers during secondments, IPOV – RESPECTFUL CARE presents this short reflective video featuring Alba Crespo, midwife, sexologist and couples therapist at Vall d’Hebron Hospital in Barcelona, affiliated with the Vall d’Hebron Research Institute (VHIR).
June 17, 2026
El nacimiento es un acontecimiento profundamente humano que, lejos de ser un mero acto biológico, constituye una escena donde se inscriben marcas neurofisiológicas, emocionales y simbólicas que acompañarán a la díada madre-bebé durante toda la vida.
June 8, 2026
Lisbon, June 2026. As part of the scientific visit of Carina Leiva, from IPOV and the Universidad Nacional de Entre Ríos, Argentina, and Ivana Cecilia Iriarte, from IPOV and Hospital San Isidro, Argentina, to the Laboratory for Social Studies on Birth — nascer.pt, a new scientific session will be held on respectful models of obstetric care and the institutionalisation of relational care in birth.
June 1, 2026
An international seminar in Madrid will bring together researchers from philosophy, feminist studies, public health and perinatal mental health to address obstetric violence, reproductive justice and respectful care, with a special focus on María Fernanda González’s IPOV secondment stay.