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May 18, 2025

UBA marks World Respectful Birth Week with a symposium focused on salutogenesis and the prevention of obstetric violence

Buenos Aires, 18 May 2025 – To mark World Respectful Birth Week 2025 (13–19 May, this year held under the slogan “The power to give birth is yours”), the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) hosted the interdisciplinary symposium “Before, during and after birth: do it your way” on Thursday 15 May.
May 16, 2025

Diana Lopes Reflects on Obstetric Violence and Interdisciplinary Care

Diana Lopes is a physiotherapist specialising in women’s health and pelvic health, currently undertaking a secondment in Argentina as part of the IPOV-RESPECTFULCARE project.
May 5, 2025

Understanding the gender dimension of MSCA projects

From Project IPOV RESPECTFULCARE, funded by the Horizon Europe Program of the European Union (HORIZON-MSCA-2022-Staff Exchange), we want to contribute to the understanding of the gender dimension in MSCA projects. This issue is one of the central themes of our project.
April 12, 2025

Obstetric Violence Recognised in Portuguese National Law 33/2025: A Turning Point for Europe

We at IPOV Respectful Care are delighted to learn of the enactment of Portuguese Law No. 33/2025, which, for the first time, defines obstetric violence within a national legal framework in a European country.
April 3, 2025

“Group Body Mapping: Exploring Intersectional Aspects of Obstetric Violence Through Embodiment—Experiences of Migrant Women in Situations of Vulnerability” by Serena Brigidi

The article titled "Group Body Mapping: Exploring Intersectional Aspects of Obstetric Violence Through Embodiment—Experiences of Migrant Women in Situations of Vulnerability" by Serena Brigidi examines the use of group body mapping as a participatory research method to explore the embodied experiences of obstetric violence among migrant women in vulnerable situations.
March 27, 2025

Romina Gallardo Duarte to Participate in the IX Jean Monnet Network BRIDGE WATCH Seminar on Human Rights in Buenos Aires

From April 7 to 9, 2025, the Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina, will host the IX Jean Monnet Network BRIDGE WATCH Seminar. This event will bring together 56 experts from 13 countries to discuss "Human Rights, Dignity, and Equality: A Dialogue between Latin America and Europe."
March 20, 2025

The impact of obstetric violence on breastfeeding: social hypogalactia and sovereignty

Ester Massó Guijarro, anthropologist and philosopher, is one of the key voices in the European project IPOV Respectful Care. Ester Massó analyzes how obstetric violence is an attack not only against the rights of mothers, but also against the health of the mother-baby dyad and, therefore, reveals itself as a global health problem.
March 18, 2025

Argentinian Expert Explores Obstetric Violence in a Seminar at the University of Granada

Granada, March 18, 2025. The University of Granada recently hosted the seminar “Obstetric Violence: Concepts and Approaches” as part of the “Democracy and Citizenship” course in the Philosophy degree program. The session was led by Ana Laura García Presas, Director of Curriculum Development and Advisory at the National University of Entre Ríos (Argentina), during her international secondment within the European project IPOV Respectful Care.
March 15, 2025

INEDYTO Seminar: Reflections on Obstetric Violence and Respectful Motherhood in Argentina

As part of the INEDYTO Bioethics Seminar at the Faculty of Psychology of the University of Granada, Ana Laura García Presas, a member of the IPOV project, delivered a presentation on the current situation of obstetric violence and respectful motherhood in Argentina. Her talk addressed both the progress made in this field and the existing challenges that persist in the Argentine context.