Initiative proposes rethinking the prohibition of drugs that can bring health benefits and stimulate the economy, in addition to allocating taxation on alcohol and tobacco to public health and public security policies The “Conselhão” created to advise President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, officially called the Sustainable Social Economic Development Council, has just established its...
Category: Active Citizenship
Patrícia Villela Marino: “Revision of the Drug Law cannot be postponed”
Between the end of May and throughout June, the judgment in the Supreme Federal Court that may decriminalize the possession of drugs for personal consumption in Brazil was included in the agenda of at least five sessions, but all of them was postponed. Stalled in the Court since 2015, the process discusses the constitutionality of...
H360 and Somos Marias inaugurate a multidisciplinary care space for women victims of domestic violence in Peruíbe
Last Friday (16), the Casa das Marias was inaugurated in Peruíbe, on the south coast of São Paulo. Conceived to welcome, guide and professionally train women victims of domestic violence, the project is a partnership between the Humanitas360 Institute and Somos Marias, a service network created by judge Danielle Grandinetti, of the 2nd Court of...
H360 signs cooperation agreement with UEMA and opens Tereza store in São Luís
On May 30th, in São Luís, Maranhão, the Humanitas360 Institute signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement with the UEMA Agency for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Institutional Relations – Marandu. On the occasion, the president of H360, Patrícia Villela Marino, and the dean of the State University of Maranhão, Walter Canales Sant’Ana, celebrated the partnership, which combines the...
President of H360 takes office at the Sustainable Social Economic Development Council, recreated by the Federal Government
The president of the Humanitas360 Institute, Patrícia Villela Marino, took office on May 4th among the 246 members of the Sustainable Social Economic Development Council (CDESS), known as “Conselhão”. Created in 2003 and extinguished in 2019, the space intended to discuss agendas and themes from different sectors of society was recreated by President Luís Inácio...
LGT Guide to Strategic Philanthropy is launched in Brazil with support from H360
On April 11th, the Humanitas360 Institute, represented by its president Patrícia Villela Marino and board member Ricardo Villela Marino, hosted the Brazilian launch of LGT Private Banking’s Guide to Strategic Philanthropy. Held at CIVI-CO, in São Paulo, the event was attended by H.S.H. Prince Max von und zu Liechtenstein, president of LGT and founder of...
Article in O Globo: “It is necessary to change the paradigm of tax incentives and philanthropy”
The following article, written by Patrícia Villela Marino and Priscila Pasqualin, was published in the Prática ESG platform, of the newspapers O Globo and Valor Econômico, on March 22, 2023. The President of the Republic has said that it is necessary to put the poor into the budget and the rich into the Income Tax....
New Cooperation Agreement to expand H360’s impact in Maranhão
The Humanitas360 Institute and several instances of power in Maranhão are finalizing a new Technical Cooperation Agreement, which should be signed in the next few days at the State Court of Justice. The agreement will allow the continuity of the work of the Cuxá Social Cooperative, created by H360 in 2020, for another three years....
Medical cannabis in São Paulo’s public health system is the result of active citizenship by civil society
An important step towards democratizing access to the medicinal properties of cannabis was taken last Tuesday (31st) with the sanctioning of the bill that authorizes the supply of medicines made from the plant in the public health system in São Paulo. The approval is the result of the active citizenship of civil society, a struggle...
Help Alejandra Izquierdo, the first indigenous woman accepted for a doctorate in Colombia, rebuild her home after a fire
Last Friday night, January 13, the house where the indigenous activist, community leader and researcher Alejandra Izquierdo lives in Colombia was consumed by flames. She, her husband and their three children were away, so they are safe but faced with the challenge of rebuilding their home. The Humanitas360 Institute, which supports the young indigenous woman’s...