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dictatorship had seized power in
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In July 1980, Portugal had ratified the convention on the "Elimination of All Forms of
Discrimination against Women" (CEDAW). As president of the CCF, Tavares da Silva was responsible for preparing and presenting Portugal's compliance report. On the strength of this she was asked by the UN's
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in the 15th and 16th centuries. This led to the publication of four articles that were eventually combined as one publication. A decade later, in
November 1994, more than 600 researchers would visit Lisbon to participate in a conference entitled “The Female Face of Portuguese Expansion”.
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Tavares da Silva the opportunity to build up a collection of publications that she would use to establish the CCF Documentation Centre on women and equality. She took courses in
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Portuguese Women's Studies Association (APEM) and in 1993 she was a founding member of the Portuguese Alliance for Parity Democracy (ADP).
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these roles was that women's equality should be a component of the Council of Europe's human rights activities, rather than of its social activities. This approach was adopted by the
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was published, which is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century. Also in that year, a Presidential Commission created by
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when her father, a roads engineer, was transferred. In 1952, when she was almost 14 the family took up residence in the Portuguese capital of
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was held in Lisbon in 1983. Noting the absence of reference to women in the various exhibits, she researched female participation in the
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on the theme of "Equality, Development and Peace" and Tavares da Silva represented Portugal together with four others including
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published a report on the situation of women, which showed that discrimination based on sex was widespread in American society.
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who would later become, albeit briefly, the first female prime minister of Portugal. Pintasilgo introduced her to the
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