Children Without Parents, Parents Without Children
In August 2021, the Respira Brasil collective launched a campaign that seeks to give visibility to the situation of the more than 130 thousand orphans and orphans of Covid-19. The proposal is to carry out reflection activities as well as the promotion of public policies, based on a critique of the idea that the right represents the “family”. […]
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. […]
May 1 – In defense of democracy – a new world is possible!
In 2020, the main trade union centrals came together to celebrate Labor Day and Worker's Day. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, for the first time, the fraternization was virtual. Organizing union centers: CUT, CSB, CGTB, CTB, Força Sindical, Intersindical, NCST, Public Central do Servidor and UGT. Look here.
Fridays For Future Brazil
Fridays For Future Brasil is a movement to face the COVID-19 crisis in traditional communities in the Amazon. Access the website here.
Targets: International Monetary Fund and World Bank meetings
Some organizations and movements, seeking to address the impacts of neoliberal policies on territories and rural and urban communities in Latin America and the Caribbean, have launched proposals to minimize the impacts of the coronavirus in the region. Read here.
For our lives, our territories, our bodies, our rights in front of Covid 19
“The women of the Amazon basin and the sisters of Latin America and the Caribbean are facing a systematic and growing threat to our lives since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic as a consequence of the historical inequalities that the patriarchal neoliberal capitalist colonial system seeks perpetuate in the face of the indifference of the States to […]
Solidarity, democracy and peace to face the COVID-19 pandemic
“The MESA for the Articulation of National Associations and NGO Networks from Latin America and the Caribbean, an entity that brings together thousands of civil society organizations, comes to the public to express its concern about the direction that the actions that several national States are taking to face the epidemic of the coronavirus virus (COVID-19) in […]
Organizations in Portugal launch the international campaign “Covid-19 – SOS Indigenous Peoples of Brazil”
“Indians of Brazil are being decimated by the arrival of Covid 19, associated with the lack of health care and protection of territories by the State. The complaint is made by the traditional communities themselves that launch campaigns with requests for support throughout Brazil. To give visibility to local initiatives and facilitate foreign donations, […]
Earth Day public letter
Entities and civil society movements launch a public letter in which they propose practical objectives linked to a reflection on the humanitarian crisis of the Coronavirus. Access the full document here.
