In the second meeting with freed women of the Lili Cooperative, held in February at the Humanitas360 Institute, the focus was on reestablishing the textile production. Ana Cristina, Dirce, Gláucia, Geane, Tânia and Tais brought the first batch of embroidery, crochet and other works they did in their homes during the end of the year....
A study released last year by the Sivis Institute revealed interesting aspects regarding citizen participation in the municipality of São Paulo. Based on interviews with experts and more than 2,400 São Paulo residents, the Local Democracy Index mapped five dimensions of the state of democracy in the city: democratic culture, political participation, the functioning of...
Brian Winter is a journalist specialized in Latin America and works as editor-in-chief for Americas Quarterly, an online magazine which, in its most recent edition, addresses the rise of military forces in countries like Bolivia, Brazil and Chile. In order to talk about Latin American perspectives for the decade ahead, Winter answered some questions from...
Venezuela has been experiencing troubled days at the beginning of this year: parliamentarians from the government have prevented oppositionists from joining in important votes in Congress; deputies are missing, thought to be kidnapped, and agents of the government’s intelligence service have made illegal searches on self-proclaimed president Juan Guaidó’s office. In addition, the country’s humanitarian...
The Intelligence Unit of the British magazine “The Economist” launched this January the “Democracy Index 2019”, the latest edition of its research on the state of democracy in the world. The project is one of the pillars of the Citizen Engagement Index, launched two years ago by Humanitas360 in partnership with The Economist Intelligence Unit...
“I went to a meeting of startups the other day and one of the people there said: if you want to build a startup, the first thing you have to do is the math. You have to have money to get it started, to make an investment and profit from it. If don’t have it,...
The Humanitas360 Institute held a meeting with five freed women associated in the work cooperative, supported by the project Entrepreneurship Behind and Beyond Bars. The encounter sets off a new phase of the work they began when they were imprisoned at Women’s Penitentiary II, in Tremembé, São Paulo (Brazil), with the cooperative named Lili. Now...
Brazilian singer Alcione accepted the invitation made by the president of the Humanitas360 Institute, Patrícia Villela Marino, to become the godmother of the new cooperative for female detainees that H360 is implementing in Maranhão state, Brazil, in partnership with the National Council of Justice and the state government. The sambista was happy: “I’m going there...
The governor of the state of Maranhão, Flávio Dino, visited the Humanitas360 Institute to discuss the plan to implement work cooperatives for inmates at the Female Prison Unit of São Luís, a project articulated by the National Justice Council. In a conversation with the team, the governor underscored the importance of this partnership to meet...
In one of the events celebrating the two years of CIVI-CO, the space for social impact businesses where Humanitas360 is based in São Paulo, a debate with public security experts gathered the lawyer and executive director of Instituto de Defesa do Direito de Defesa (Institute to Defend the Right of Defense) Marina Dias, the journalist...