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Maria Antónia Palla (born 10 January 1933) is a journalist, writer and feminist who was one of the first female journalists in Portugal. She played an important role in the legalization of abortion in the country, by promoting the practice in interviews and television programmes.
As President of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa was involved in 2023 in a controversy raised in a TVI program, which alluded to an alleged call by the head of state to speed up the treatment of Brazilian twins with the drug Zolgensma, considered one of the most expensive and rare drugs in the world, which is used by administering a single ...
Emília da Piedade Teixeira Lopes de Sousa Costa was born in Lamego in the Viseu district of northern Portugal on 15 December 1877, to Colonel Luís Maria Teixeira Lopes and Maria do Pilar Pinto Cardoso. On 5 October 1904, she married the writer Alberto de Sousa Costa . They had three children, one of whom died at an early age.
Margarida Martins (born 11 July 1953, Lisbon, Portugal) is a social activist and politician. She was a pioneer in Portugal in the development of HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention, having been co-founder of Associação Abraço (Association Hug), which she presided over for 21 years.
Alvim comes from the parish of Quinta do Anjo, which is part of Palmela, in the Setúbal District of Portugal, south of the capital of Lisbon and close to the Arrábida Natural Park. A student at the Palmela Secondary School when the student protests began, she is now an anthropology student in the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the ...
The Lisbon Central Prison (Cadeia Central de Lisboa) was created in 1954 in the civil parish of Alcabideche, in Cascais Municipality, just outside of Linhó, Sintra Municipality, from which it borrowed its name, and became a major prison of Lisbon Metropolitan Area.
Similarly, its members contributed to the Autonomy Decree of 16 February 1928, that suggested a small decentralization of services to the Junta Geral do Distrito Autónomo de Ponta Delgada. Within the same context, it launched an appeal to Madeira autonomists, in order to vet ideal opinions, to which the Madeiran press responded with the ...
Following her marriage, Isabel de Herédia began a gradual withdrawal from her professional life, a process which was completed by the time her eldest child, Afonso of Braganza, was born. Thereafter, Isabel has devoted herself to the care of her family and the patronage of various charities. Duarte Pio and Isabel de Herédia have three children: