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...
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...
In 2023, the Humanitas360 Institute helped bring potable water to the Sete de Setembro Indigenous Land, where the Paiter Suruí people live in the north of Brazil. The work, carried out in July, resulted in the installation of three distribution points with large-scale filters (1 thousand liters per hour) in the villages of Lapetanha and...
On January 19, the National Council for Criminal and Penitentiary Policy, linked to the Ministry of Justice, approved the recommendation for public and private security agents to wear body cameras on their uniforms. According to the document, which establishes standards to be observed in the use of environmental recording equipment, the recommendation is valid for...
On December 12, the president of the Humanitas360 Institute and advisor to the Institute for Social and Economic Research on Cannabis (Ipsec), Patrícia Villela Marino, participated in a public hearing at the Chamber of Deputies, in Brasília. Promoted by the Economic Development Commission, the meeting on “Hemp: The Path to National Autonomy in the Production...
The Humanitas360 Institute congratulates Minister Flávio Dino on his appointment to the Supreme Federal Court, formalized by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on November 27th. Now Minister of Justice and Public Security, Dino played a prominent role in the history of social cooperatives created by H360 in the Brazilian prison system. In 2019, when...
In a ceremony held on November 8, in London, the Catalyst 2030 Awards announced the Humanitas360 Institute and the PDR Philanthropic Fund as winners in the Donors – Leader in Learning category. The international award, which reached its 3rd edition in 2023, celebrates organizations that have mobilized capital to support projects and initiatives dedicated to...
The president of the Humanitas360 Institute and advisor to the Institute for Social and Economic Research on Cannabis, Patrícia Villela Marino, participated on October 25th in the public hearing held by the Parliamentary Front for Medicinal Cannabis and Industrial Hemp, coordinated by deputy Caio França in the Legislative Assembly of the State of São Paulo....
On September 26, an indigenous woman from the Guajajara people who is part of the Cuxá Social Cooperative, installed by the Humanitas360 Institute in the Women’s Prison Unit in São Luís, Maranhão, won the right to provisional freedom. She was in preventive detention in the Pedrinhas Complex without having been convicted, in a process that...