Approved by the Senate’s Constitution and Justice Committee on March 13, the proposed amendment to the Constitution that establishes the possession of drugs in any quantity as a crime is a legal setback, a political abomination and an enormous social risk. Confusing public opinion with prejudices and criminal punitiveness, the measure reinforces the worst instincts...
The following interview, conducted by journalist Valéria França, was originally published in Portuguese in Veja magazine on March 1, 2024. With the largest prison population in its history, more than 830 thousand prisoners, the Brazilian prison system has major problems, such as overcrowding, lack of operational infrastructure and organized crime. Despite the complex problems, Brazilian...
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...
The following interview was originally published in Portuguese in Marie Claire magazine in January 2024. When lawyer Patrícia Villela Marino recorded a video in support of President Lula in October 2022, she didn’t expect the reaction that was to come. Married for more than 20 years to Ricardo Villela Marino, chairman of Itaú’s Board of...
The following article was originally published in Portuguese by Juliano Spyer in the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper in January 2024. I knocked on many doors looking for evangelicals who publicly defend the medicinal use of Cannabis. And I received two responses. Some people shrugged their shoulders, thinking that Christianity and marijuana are topics that don’t...
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...
The following article, written by Natalia Viri, was originally published in Portuguese in Exame magazine in January 2024. A member of one of the wealthiest families in Brazil, Patrícia Villela did not shy away from urgent – and thorny – causes. On the contrary, she embraced them. Married to Ricardo Villela Marino, whose family is...
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 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....
The following article, written by the president of the Humanitas360 Institute, Patrícia Villela Marino, was published in CIVI-CO Mag, a publication of the CIVI-CO social impact hub, in October. A series of preconceptions hover over the North and Northeast of Brazil that prevent us from seeing the region’s potential, without neglecting its socioeconomic challenges. The...