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...
On September 18th, TV Cultura’s Roda Viva – one of the main journalistic programs on Brazilian television – was the stage for an in-depth debate on the causes and effects of the war on drugs, such as mass incarceration, and its possible solutions. Guest of the program, the president of the Humanitas360 Institute and advisor...
On September 1st, the Humanitas360 Institute held its annual board meeting for 2023. The location chosen for the meeting was significant: the social cooperative for women prisoners set up by H360 in the São Luís Women’s Prison Unit, in Maranhão. Since 2019, this state has become one of the main points of action for the...
Through its Annual Report, the Humanitas360 Institute brings together in a single document all the main information about its activities to reduce violence and promote citizenship of vulnerable populations in Brazil and Latin America. In addition to detailing the actions, the publication contains the Theory of Change that guides each project. The content of the...
On August 22, the president of the Humanitas360 Institute, Patrícia Villela Marino, participated in the installation of the Thematic Commission on Rights and Democracy, which is part of the Council for Sustainable Economic and Social Development (CDESS), recreated this year by the government of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Held in a hybrid form, the...
Initiative proposes rethinking the prohibition of drugs that can bring health benefits and stimulate the economy, in addition to allocating taxation on alcohol and tobacco to public health and public security policies The “Conselhão” created to advise President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, officially called the Sustainable Social Economic Development Council, has just established its...
Between the end of May and throughout June, the judgment in the Supreme Federal Court that may decriminalize the possession of drugs for personal consumption in Brazil was included in the agenda of at least five sessions, but all of them was postponed. Stalled in the Court since 2015, the process discusses the constitutionality of...
Last Friday (16), the Casa das Marias was inaugurated in Peruíbe, on the south coast of São Paulo. Conceived to welcome, guide and professionally train women victims of domestic violence, the project is a partnership between the Humanitas360 Institute and Somos Marias, a service network created by judge Danielle Grandinetti, of the 2nd Court of...
On May 30th, in São Luís, Maranhão, the Humanitas360 Institute signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement with the UEMA Agency for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Institutional Relations – Marandu. On the occasion, the president of H360, Patrícia Villela Marino, and the dean of the State University of Maranhão, Walter Canales Sant’Ana, celebrated the partnership, which combines the...
The president of the Humanitas360 Institute, Patrícia Villela Marino, took office on May 4th among the 246 members of the Sustainable Social Economic Development Council (CDESS), known as “Conselhão”. Created in 2003 and extinguished in 2019, the space intended to discuss agendas and themes from different sectors of society was recreated by President Luís Inácio...