Vera Lúcia de Miranda Guarda (February 10, 1963 -) is the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (

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) chairperson on Water, Women and Development in

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Life and education

She was born on February 10, 1963, in Tarumirim, Brazil. In 1981 she began attending the School of Pharmacy at the Federal University of Ouro Preto. In 1992, she became the Conference Chair at the same university. In 1994, she attended the

Joseph Fourier University Joseph Fourier University (UJF, , also known as Grenoble I) was a French university situated in the city of Grenoble and focused on the fields of sciences, technologies and health. It is now part of the Université Grenoble Alpes. Importance ...

in France.

Work for UNESCO

In 2006, Guarda signed an agreement to establish and become the UNESCO Chair on Water, Women and Development in Brazil. In February 2012, she established the NuCát teaching, research and extension addition to the UNESCO Chair Core. The committee aims to expand

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and

education for women Female education is a catch-all term for a complex set of issues and debates surrounding education (primary education, secondary education, tertiary education, and health education in particular) for girls and women. It is frequently called girls ...

. It aims to achieve

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through focus on multiple and diverse disciplines and drawing connections between different socioeconomic groups and

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s. It also focuses on women's economic development and

independence Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state, in which residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory. The opposite of independence is the status of ...

, in hopes that women have equal power of choice in decisions affecting women and their families. The organization informs both men and women about the benefits of women having equal

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as men.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Guarda, Vera Lúcia de Miranda 1963 births Living people Brazilian women's rights activists

Life and education

Work for UNESCO

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