The Humanitas360 Institute has a history of continuous commitment to democracy and human rights in Venezuela. As early as 2010, before founding H360, Patrícia Villela Marino organized a pioneering conference in Brazil on the Venezuelan situation, an event that featured prominent opposition figures to Chavismo, including Manuela Bolívar, Yon Goicoechea, Maria Corina, Sara George, Ricardo...
Democracy and transparency As a citizen and as the president of an organization with deep ties to Venezuela, as is the case with Humanitas360 Institute, I cannot remain silent in the face of the ongoing deterioration of democracy in the country. From a personal standpoint, it is a painful situation, where I empathize with the...
At the end of July, the Humanitas360 Institute and the social business Tereza launched the series “I’m Free, Now What?” on TikTok. The videos will offer tips and answer questions from people who have recently left the prison system and their families. Published weekly, the content will be presented by H360 and Tereza collaborators who...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...