This month, products made by “Tereza Vale a Pena” (Tereza is worth it) -- a brand created by Humanitas360 to commercialize and disseminate products made by the inmates and ex-inmates’…
Humanitas36003/08/2020
Incarceration Nations Network draws attention to prisoners’ conditions around the world with nocturnal art installations in major cities
Conceived by researcher Baz Dreisinger and artist Hank Willis Thomas, The Writing on the Wall project has rocked large cities around the world. In June, the American capital Washington hosted…
Humanitas36001/07/2020
Cannabis industry regulation should include reparation for people arrested for non-violent crimes, says Steve DeAngelo
The Humanitas360 Institute joined a meeting hosted by The Green Hub with the so-called "father of the legal cannabis industry", Steve DeAngelo. He is the founder of Harborside Health, one…
Humanitas36030/06/2020
H360 joins Latin American edition of MIT COVID-19 Challenge
Over the weekend of June 19-21, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) held a hackathon to think of solutions to the pandemic in Latin America. Split into four general themes…
Humanitas36030/06/2020
H360 participates in “lives” about pandemic, invisible people and citizen engagement
In times of pandemic, live streaming is everywhere. In the last month, the Humanitas360 Institute joined two debates that give some sense of the themes we have been working on…
Humanitas36003/06/2020
H360 holds a virtual meeting with women from Lili Cooperative
On May 26, in partnership with the Instituto Responsa, the Humanitas360 Institute held a virtual meeting with the members of Cooperative Lili, a group that was formed within the Women's…
Humanitas36002/06/2020
The pandemic reveals systemic forms of inequality, says curator Pedro Alonzo
Pedro Alonzo is an independent art curator and the brand new advisor to the Humanitas360 Institute. A scholar who researches powerful works that question violence, mass incarceration and xenophobia, Alonzo…
Humanitas36001/06/2020
CNJ and Humanitas360 expand virtual visits in prisons
In order to soften the impact of the full closure of prisons due to the new coronavirus, which has suspended around 1 million monthly visits registered across the country, the…
Humanitas36008/05/2020
Humanitas Institute360’s actions to help fight the pandemic in Maranhão
The Humanitas360 Institute has been acting on several fronts to help mitigate the effects of the pandemic in Maranhão, the state in Northern Brazil where we implemented the Cuxá Cooperative.…
Humanitas36007/05/2020
Women are more vulnerable to drug trafficking convictions because Justice incriminates more petty crimes, says violence researcher
The new coronavirus pandemic has particularly affected the most vulnerable groups in Brazil - and with the prison population it would be no different. We have seen an increase in…
Humanitas36007/05/2020
