Categoria:Rede Comuá

By Monica C. Ribeiro

A space for meeting and welcoming, for reflections on the transformative power of socio-environmental justice philanthropy and new possible arrangements to promote access to socio-environmental, human and social justice rights

This translates into the Philanthropy, Social Justice, Civil Society and Democracy Seminar, held on September 20th and 21st, in São Paulo.

By Mônica C Ribeiro

Brazilian civil society has played a fundamental role in placing the guarantee of access to rights on the public agenda. Since the country's redemocratization, following the end of the military dictatorship, organized civil society has guaranteed a series of rights in conjunction with the Constituent Assembly that generated the 1988 Federal Constitution.

Since then, some sectors of civil society have remained organized to maintain and expand these rights, which is fundamental to guaranteeing democracy in the country. In the current political moment in Brazil, its role has been, more than ever, one of resistance, in the sense of seeking to guarantee the rights hard won in previous decades. And its strengthening is therefore essential for this.