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 of the first cannabis dispensaries in the United States and part of the Arc View Group, a company that invests in other newly born businesses...
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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 – aid to health systems; protection of the most vulnerable; prevention of misinformation and empowerment of the informal economy – the 1,500 participants were mentored...
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 during this period of crisis. Patrícia Villela Marino, president of H360, was invited by Itaú BBA to talk to graffiti artist Mundano, Rio de Janeiro...
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 Penitentiary II of Tremembé. At the meeting, they had a mini-course of ideas to generate extra income in this period of crisis, besides psycho-social assistance....
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 talked to H360 about how art can help to engage citizens to think about the upsurge of radical ideologies, especially in a period as difficult...
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 Humanitas360 Institute and the National Justice Council (CNJ) are working together to consolidate virtual social visits. Initially, the institutions are working to expand a project...
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. We donated 2,000 liters of sanitary water to the state’s prison units and material for the production of 88,000 protection masks, which adds up to...
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 cases of rebellions (in states such as São Paulo and Amazonas) and the recrudescence of punitive measures, such as the proposal to adopt ” containers...
Conference brings together experts, scientists, lawyers and investors in search of a socially responsible medical cannabis market
In early March, The Green Hub held the Cannabis Thinking conference and brought together experts from various fields of the medical cannabis market: from investors, such as Alex Lucena, an entrepreneur in innovation markets, to Federal University of Rio de Janeiro’s neuroscientist Stevens Rehen, a researcher at the Instituto D’Or, which investigates the therapeutic potential...
Humanitas360 Institute starts working at Social Cooperative Cuxá, in Northeast Brazil
In early March, the Humanitas360 team was in São Luís, Maranhão (northeast Brazil), to coordinate efforts to open the Cuxá…