14 March was the first anniversary of the assassination of city councillor Marielle Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes. 365 days since a brutal crime with no response! An attack on democracy, which wounded women, black people, the LGBT community, residents of peripheral city neighbourhoods and human rights activists. But one which left the seeds […]
The Articulation for Human Rights Monitoring in Brazil has carefully analyzed the suggested Social Security Reform proposal recently submitted by the Federal Government to Congress. Seeking a close eye especially on those who will eventually be most affected – the entire working class – the Articulation issued a Positioning Note opposing some of the main […]
Moisés Borges of the national coordination of Brazilian Movement of Dam Affected People– MAB analyzes the perspectives of the crime of Brumadinho for the São Francisco River. It was with great sadness and revolt that we accompanied yet another terrible environmental crime provoked by Vale. The development model and the predatory mining that produced rupture […]
“For the pains of this world, Oh Lord, We beg mercy, At one and the same time the creation groans …” Rodolfo Gaede In solidarity with the population from Minas Gerais, who mourns another environmental crime caused by the rupture of a dam of iron ore tailings in Brumadinho, still without any possibility to measure […]
The Bahia Museum of Art received hundreds of people to listen to the prophetic inspirations of Benedictine monk Marcelo Barros and Methodist pastor and feminist philosopher Nancy Cardoso. Barros and Nancy met on November 8th in Salvador (BA), on the Ecumenical Panel “Listening to the cries: Popular resistance weaves hope!”. Carried out in partnership between […]
The year of 2018 ended to CESE with the dialogue around the subject “Resist and Hope: Dialogues on democracy in times of crisis”, on December 13th, at the Rectory of the Federal University of Bahia – Salvador (BA). The event, promoted in partnership with the Federal University of Bahia and supported by the Brazilian Association […]