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

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

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, french: Université Joseph Fourier, 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 Universit ...

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

water resources Water resources are natural resources of water that are potentially useful for humans, for example as a source of drinking water supply or irrigation water. 97% of the water on the Earth is salt water and only three percent is fresh water; slight ...

and

education for women Female education is a catch-all term of 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 girl ...

. It aims to achieve

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

non-governmental organization A non-governmental organization (NGO) or non-governmental organisation (see spelling differences) is an organization that generally is formed independent from government. They are typically nonprofit entities, and many of them are active in h ...

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

independence Independence is a condition of a person, 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 statu ...

, 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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on

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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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