Originally published on By Marcelo de Vita Grecco and Patrícia Villela Marino The biggest difficulty faced by Brazil in 2020 is the tragic loss of thousands of lives due to the new coronavirus pandemic. However, other problems faced a few years ago have gained greater dimensions. Covid-19 also leaves a severe trail of economic crisis....
This is a letter sent to the Humanitas360 Institute by Flavia Maria, one of the leaders of the Lili Cooperative and who is still imprisoned in the II Women’s Penitentiary in Tremembé, São Paulo. Since April, at the beginning of the pandemic, the Humanitas360 Institute has donated 30 hygiene kits to benefit Lili’s members who...
Originally published at Economy & Law, June 2020. Patrícia Villela Marino and Emílio Figueiredo The decision by public health agencies in the United States to keep cannabis-derived products trade in the midst of the pandemic in regions such as New York and California sheds light to an issue that patients and experts have highlighted for...
Humanitas360 was founded with the core belief that all people, no matter their race, gender, geography, sexual orientation, and financial means, have inalienable rights that cannot be denied and must be vigilantly defended. In recent days, the world has watched as the degradation of those rights for African Americans have become tragically evident. This crisis has...
Patrícia Villela Marino, president of Humanitas360 Institute Article originally published at Brazilian newspaper Estadão, in April 16. Read the original: https://politica.estadao.com.br/blogs/fausto-macedo/reinvencao-da-sociedade-deve-incluir-sistema-carcerario/
Ricardo Anderáos Vice President of Humanitas360 Institute The privatization of detention centers in Sao Paulo led to a courthouse war between the state government, on the one side, and public defenders, public prosecutors, and organizations such as Conectas and Humanitas360 on the other. Amidst several aggressions to both state and federal constitutions reported by these...
Almost two years after the first edition of the Citizen Engagement Index, developed by The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) together with Humanitas360, some of the issues raised by the research in different Latin American countries may be regarded as premonitory. The most flagrant case is Chile, which has the highest educational indices of the compared...
On February 15th 2019, Brazilian company Odebrecht held an agreement with the Peruvian Public Ministry. In the document -according to…
By Ricardo Anderáos (Vice-president of Operations) Prison riots, like the ones that keep happening in Manaus, should not concern us…
Since June of this year, the workshops of two prison cooperatives created by the Humanitas360 Institute (H360) in the city…