On August 22, the president of the Humanitas360 Institute, Patrícia Villela Marino, participated in the installation of the Thematic Commission on Rights and Democracy, which is part of the Council for Sustainable Economic and Social Development (CDESS), recreated this year by the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Held in a hybrid form, the...
The following article was originally published in Portuguese on Globo’s Um Só Planeta website on July 6, 2023. In a global economy that increasingly favors regenerative agriculture, eco-development, and social responsibility, we cannot allow our country to be guided only by retrograde policies in agribusiness. In the last 4 years, our country has experienced a...
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...
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....
Derrubando Muros (Tearing Down Walls) is a civil society initiative that brings together more than 100 people, including activists, scientists, communicators, academics, businessmen, and politicians with the aim of defending democracy, tolerance, and dialogue between different opinions. The manifesto below was originally published on the group’s website and was signed, among others, by the president...
The following article, written by the president of the Humanitas360 Institute, Patrícia Villela Marino, was originally published in Portuguese in the newspaper Folha de S.Paulo on December 13, 2022. In the democratic process, it is up to the state to perceive society’s needs and, based on them, to create sustainable solutions. When this tuning does...
Originally published in Portuguese by Bloomberg Línea. In an essay, the businesswoman says she will vote for the PT for the first time and that the former president is the last bastion of democracy in Brazil By Patrícia Villela Marino* October 26, 2022 “I am 52 years old, I am a lawyer and a civic-social-environmental...
Originally published in the Folha de S. Paulo’s website The opening of the Pandemic Museum and the reconstruction of the National Museum take time to get attention in a country that has no memory The Querino project podcast, by journalist Tiago Rogero, recalls, in its first episode, the history of the National Museum – the...
Originally published on Sechat´s website With the presence of big names in the sector such as Marcelo D2, Rogério Schiatti, Pedro Abramovay and Ad Júnior, thinking about cannabis becomes increasingly necessary in our country Once again – and, fortunately, back in the face-to-face heat – we hosted at CIVI-CO another edition of Cannabis Thinking, the...
Originally published on the JRESE website Humanitas360 Institute is a non-profit organization (501.c3) based in the United States with a regional office in Brazil. We work to build fairer and more egalitarian societies in several Latin American countries,with the support of our advisors and collaborators in Colombia, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico, Argentina, Bolivia and Guatemala, as...