Catarina Furtado

TV Host, Actress, Author & Documentarian

TIME:

02/07 @ 2:15 PM

DURATION:

60 min

LOCATION:

STAGE B

LANGUAGE:

Portuguese

Catarina Furtado is a TV Host, actress, author, and documentarian.

Since 2000, she has served as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and, since 2012, has been the President and Founder of the NGO “Corações Com Coroa” (CCC), which works to promote gender equality, non-discrimination, and combat gender-based violence.

In 2005, Catarina was awarded the Order of Merit by the President of Portugal, Jorge Sampaio.

She is the co-author of five documentary series (each with 13 episodes), filmed in various countries—”Príncipes do Nada”—as well as four documentaries, “Dar a Vida sem Morrer,” focused on maternal and child health in Guinea-Bissau. These productions tell real stories and testimonies of people facing daily challenges related to equality, human rights, and development, including migrants and refugees.

In 2021, Catarina developed her own original television format for RTP, Portugal’s public broadcaster: “É Urgente o Amor”, a program centered on empathy, solidarity, compassion, and volunteerism.

In 2010, she was invited by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon as a keynote speaker at the UN Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in New York, sharing her vision as an MDG Champion during the official launch of the International Year of Youth. In 2016, she was invited by UNFPA to speak on Women’s Rights and Gender-Based Violence at the High-Level Forum on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) during the CSW 61 sessions at the UN Headquarters in New York.

Since 2000, Catarina has been a regular speaker at the launch of the UNFPA’s State of World Population Report, presented at the Portuguese Parliament and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In 2015, she published her book “O que eu vejo e não esqueço”, sharing personal stories and experiences from her 21 years as a UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador. In 2019, she published “Adolescer é fácil #só que não”, addressing adolescence-related topics such as sexuality, education, citizenship, friendship, love, human rights, violence, harassment, and bullying.

In 2023, she was recognized by UNFPA at a ceremony in Kazakhstan, receiving an award for her 23-year commitment to advocating for the UNFPA’s causes.

In 2024, Catarina launched the podcast “Ponto de Luz”, finally giving voice to teenagers—a generation deeply affected by the pandemic—and to extraordinary teachers across Portugal, a profession often under scrutiny. The podcast features cross-generational conversations between a teacher and a student who have never met before, discussing the state of education, citizenship, and human rights.

Over the years, Catarina has been a frequent speaker at conferences on human rights and development—including education, sexual and reproductive rights, gender equality, non-discrimination, violence prevention, family planning, maternal health, and citizenship education—in parliament, schools, universities, NGOs, business associations, and corporations. She is also the face of numerous advocacy and awareness campaigns focused on women’s rights, girls’ empowerment, HIV/AIDS, FGM, child marriage, and human rights.

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