On June 17th and 18th, the Working Group on Drug Policy and Incarceration of the National Council for Criminal and Penitentiary Policy organized public debates in São Paulo to discuss the war on drugs and mass incarceration of young Black people. Led by the president of the Humanitas360 Institute, Patrícia Villela Marino, the group brought...
Category: Active Citizenship
08/06/202428/06/2024
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Indigenous leader supported by H360, Alejandra Izquierdo is appointed to work at the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Last Tuesday (4), Colombian indigenous researcher and leader Alejandra Izquierdo took office as cabinet advisor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of her country. Representative of the Arhuaco people, Izquierdo became, in 2022, the first indigenous woman to be accepted as a doctoral student at the most prestigious university in Colombia. To attend the Interdisciplinary...
29/05/202429/05/2024
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Joined by H360, public hearing debates drug policy and incarceration in Brasília
On May 21, the National Council for Criminal and Penitentiary Policy held in Brasília, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Justice, the public hearing “Decriminalization of Drugs and its Impacts on the Prison and Judiciary System”. The president of the Humanitas360 Institute, Patrícia Villela Marino, who is part of the collegiate, opened the event...
28/05/202403/06/2024
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Environment Week: H360 team goes to Rondônia to define new Paiter Suruí village to receive potable water filter
At the beginning of June, when Environment Week is celebrated, teams from the Humanitas360 Institute and its sponsor, the PDR Philanthropic Fund, will visit the state of Rondônia to reunite with the Paiter Suruí people and their leader, Cacique Almir Suruí. Among the goals of the trip is to define which village in the Sete...
24/04/202429/04/2024
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President of H360 speaks at National Secretariat for Penal Policies event about work in the prison system
On April 16, the president of the Humanitas360 Institute participated in the National Seminar on Work in the Prison System, held by the National Secretariat for Penal Policies in Brasília. In her speech, Patrícia Villela Marino defended the active role of civil society in the prison system, in order to collaborate so that work in...
27/03/202428/03/2024
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Women’s Month: The Impact of H360 and Tereza’s Work in Numbers
At the end of the special program for Women’s Month, the Humanitas360 Institute and the social business Tereza presented some figures on the work carried out with imprisoned women and those released from the prison system. With the implementation of the first social cooperative in São Paulo, in 2018, H360 began a journey to promote...
27/03/202428/03/2024
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Supported by the president of H360, resolution on the rights of LGBTQIA+ people in prison is approved by CNPCP and CNLGBTQIA+
In a meeting held on March 26, in Brasília, the CNPCP and the CNLGBTQIA+ approved a resolution that establishes the parameters for the reception of LGBTQIA+ people imprisoned in Brazil. The text was unanimously approved by both members of the National Council for Criminal and Penitentiary Policy, linked to the Ministry of Justice and Public...
25/03/202425/03/2024
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PEC 45/2023 is a setback that disrupts the public debate on drugs, writes president of H360
Approved by the Senate’s Constitution and Justice Committee on March 13, the proposed amendment to the Constitution that establishes the possession of drugs in any quantity as a crime is a legal setback, a political abomination and an enormous social risk. Confusing public opinion with prejudices and criminal punitiveness, the measure reinforces the worst instincts...
04/03/202404/03/2024
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Suspending temporary releases of imprisoned people is penal populism, argues president of H360 in an interview
The following interview, conducted by journalist Valéria França, was originally published in Portuguese in Veja magazine on March 1, 2024. With the largest prison population in its history, more than 830 thousand prisoners, the Brazilian prison system has major problems, such as overcrowding, lack of operational infrastructure and organized crime. Despite the complex problems, Brazilian...
29/02/202404/03/2024
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Flávia Maria da Silva celebrates a year of freedom with H360
A year ago, on February 7, 2023, Flávia Maria da Silva left the Women’s Penitentiary Progression Center of São Miguel Paulista, where she was serving a semi-open regime after almost 10 years in a closed regime. In a statement to Humanitas360, she tells what has changed in her life since then, from the multidisciplinary care...