Criminal Justice Network demands measures against COVID-19 in prisons and socio-educational
The Criminal Justice Network, in March 2020, published a note in which it exposes the risks for people deprived of their liberty regarding the proliferation of the coronavirus and the limitation of preventive measures in prisons and socio-educational. The organization defends the reduction of the prison population, through the extrication of the elderly, pregnant women, nursing mothers, mothers with children up to 12 years old, […]
Quarantine rooms
The Quarantine Rooms campaign was created by Instituto Urbe Urges, Instituto de Arquitetos do Brasil and Nossas. There are representations of the movement in several states, in addition to São Paulo, there are also in Recife and Porto Alegre. It proposes to use the vacant hotel network to guarantee social distancing to groups that are unable to achieve it. […]
Solidary tax reform
A group of entities focused on the tax sector proposed a solidary tax reform, which aims to promote social justice through tax progressive instruments, that is, those who have more pay more. The main objective is that this is a mechanism to combat social inequality. The proposal involves campaigns, online petitions and […]
Movements launch Zero Eviction campaign to contain actions during pandemic
Dozens of representatives of popular and social movement entities came together to launch the “Zero Eviction” campaign, in a virtual event held on July 23, 2020. They denounced repossessions and evictions that continue to happen across the country, in the midst of the crisis. sanitary and accelerated transmission of the new coronavirus (Covid-19), which took the […]
Lawyers provide free guidance in the pandemic
The Cândido Advocacia office offered free legal advice via the internet to the black and peripheral population. The consultations prioritized assistance aimed at issues of racial discrimination, domestic violence, labor and consumer rights. You can learn more about the initiative through the office's Instagram.
COVID-19 Mission
Initiative created to allow people with symptoms of COVID-19 and without medical insurance or resources for private medical care to be assisted by volunteers. The COVID-19 Mission platform connected volunteer doctors with people with symptoms, they register and quickly a doctor gets in touch and conducts a free consultation online.
Pact for life and Brazil
Various entities – such as the National Conference of Bishops of Brazil (CNBB), the Brazilian Bar Association (OAB), the Commission for the Defense of Human Rights Dom Paulo Evaristo Arns, the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (ABC), the Brazilian Association of Press (ABI) and the Brazilian Society for the Progress of Science (SBPC) – joined […]
“Welcoming America”: refugees and immigrants in the US facing the pandemic
The NGO Welcoming America, on its website, lists a series of campaigns and resources available to refugees and immigrants, in the context of the pandemic.
undocublack
The “Undocublack” Network, created in 2006 in Mimi with the aim of protecting the human rights of black immigrants, used its social media to publicize a series of actions in support of these communities.
Emergency Health Fund
The Emergency Health Fund was encouraged through the Embrace Health campaign, which aimed to draw attention to public health. The action made it possible to make donations directly to the Fund, which allocated them to entities that were on the front line in the fight against the pandemic. The donation can also be reversed in tests […]
