SOCIEDADE DE DEFESA DOS DIREITOS SEXUAIS NA AMAZÔNIA (Sodireitos)

Written on 10 March 2009.

Sodireitos is a recently created NGO in Belem, which was born out of “Jepiara”, a local program against sexual exploitation and human trafficking based on a human rights perspective; especially focusing on sexual rights as human rights. Sodireitos aims to protect, defend and promote sexual human rights in the Amazon through a participative and protagonist perspective. Sodireitos implements regional action research, prevention campaigns in areas with high prevalence of prostitution, psychological and judicial assistance to groups of victims of trafficking or returned (illegal) migrants, and lobbies governmental policies at the local and regional level.