O que muda quando a justiça climática é pensada a partir dos territórios? Este texto convida a olhar para os saberes, modos de vida e práticas de povos indígenas e comunidades tradicionais como caminhos fundamentais para imaginar respostas climáticas mais justas, coletivas e enraizadas na vida.
O Fundo Brasil de Direitos Humanos celebra o marco histórico de R$ 130 milhões doados a mais de 2.300 iniciativas
Entre riscos crescentes e limitações das políticas públicas, a filantropia se apresenta como ferramenta estratégica para fortalecer democracia e resiliência territorial.
Communication is a fundamental human right. The movement for its recognition as such took place throughout the 20th century, as the flow of information began to become greater and greater. International organizations such as Unesco, with the so-called MacBride Report (also known as One world and many voices) began to recognize this right, which means guaranteeing that people should be able and able to express themselves freely, produce and circulate information.
In guaranteeing this right, there are economic, social and political issues that impose inequality in this place as well, limiting the conditions for all, all and all, to be producers and disseminators of information by concentrating the means of communication and economic resources.
With the aim of improving the capacity of the Brazil Fund team for dialogue and advocacy at an international level, the course was held with the support of the Capacity Building Program of the Comuá Network
Professionals from the Brazil Human Rights Fund Project team took part in a course to improve their understanding and communication skills in English in a specific way: updating debates on human rights.
For Ana Valéria Araújo, superintendent of the institution, philanthropy must support organizations that defend labor rights and compliance with constitutional guarantees
By Rafael Cistati
Quase metade dos trabalhadores e trabalhadoras brasileiros vivem, hoje, na informalidade. São pessoas que não contribuem para a previdência social e que, por isso, não têm acesso a direitos como o seguro desemprego ou auxílio doença. Os informais representam mais de 40% da força de trabalho: uma parcela que cresceu nos últimos anos, especialmente depois de 2017, quando foi aprovada a reforma trabalhista. “O argumento era de que a reforma geraria empregos. Não gerou”, diz Ana Valéria Araújo, superintendente do Fundo Brasil de Direitos Humanos. “Hoje, 40% dos trabalhadores brasileiros vendem sua força de trabalho sem ter acesso a direitos”.
At the GIFE 2023 Congress, Allyne Andrade, deputy superintendent of the Brazil Fund, participated in a debate on regulatory challenges facing civil society
By Rafael Ciscati
The covid-19 pandemic has significantly impacted the way the Brazil Human Rights Fund works. Traditionally, the foundation supports projects developed by grassroots organizations. Proposals, coming from all over the country, are selected via notice. The health emergency forced a change in the work logic. “We started thinking about how to act to keep civil society alive and active in that context”, says Allyne Andrade e Silva, deputy superintendent of the institution. “The solution we found was to offer flexible support”. In this modality, the resource received by the group does not need to be fully used to finance a project: it can also have the objective of institutional strengthening, intended to pay salaries or other expenses of the organization.
Allyne shared this experience during the panel “Regulatory challenges and civil society participation”, held on April 14th during the 12th Congress of the Group of Institutions, Foundations and Companies – Gife. In this year's edition, the event discussed the role of private social investment in combating inequalities that affect Brazilian society.
By Allyne Andrade e Silva, Angélica Basthi, Cristina Orpheo and Fernanda Lopes
Although collaboration is an old practice among philanthropic organizations, the idea of “collaborative philanthropy” is relatively new. In Brazil, this is a concept still under construction. Here, he has been encouraging the creation of new arrangements in the field of philanthropy for social justice.
However, none of these initiatives have experienced bold and innovative action as has been practiced by the Baobá Fund for Racial Equity, the Brazilian Human Rights Fund and the Casa Socioambiental Fund within the scope of the Alliance between Funds, which emerged in 2021.
The colonialist mentality has contaminated philanthropy practices in Brazil, but there are transformative ways to overcome it
By Allyne Andrade e Silva and Graciela Hopstein
Traditionally, philanthropy has been structured around an extractive colonialist logic. Coloniality of power is a term coined by Anibal Quijano to characterize the typical pattern of global domination in the modern capitalist system, whose origins date back to European colonialism at the beginning of the 16th century. Throughout the colonial process, Europe positioned itself as the central point of civilization, most advanced in the development process, not only of politics and economics, but also of humanity itself.
By Fernanda Lopes, Allyne Andrade e Silva, Cristina Orpheo and Angelica Basthi
In 2022, an investment of R$2.5 million is being allocated to quilombola communities and indigenous peoples in several Brazilian states through the Baobá Racial Equity Fund; the Brazilian Human Rights Fund and the Casa Socioambiental Fund, brought together in an unprecedented initiative in Brazil: the Alliance between Funds.
The Alliance between Funds is a collaborative philanthropy initiative to support invisible and more vulnerable populations in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
