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WHO WE AREFoundersAbdias do Nascimento | 1914-2011Margarida GenevoisRose Marie Muraro | 1930-2014Dom Pedro CasaldáligaBoard of TrusteesGersem Luciano Baniwa | PresidentBruno Torturra NogueiraDarci FrigoDenise DoraJorge Eduardo DurãoJuana KweitelJurema WerneckKenarik BoujikianLetícia SabatellaMafoane OdaraMarcos José Pereira da SilvaSusy YoshimuraVeriano TertoViviane Menezes HermidaAttila Roque was also part of the Board in 2016. He left at theend of the year to take over the executive management of FordFoundation in Brazil and was replaced by Viviane Menezes Hermida.Financial CommitteeKarla Battistella | PresidentFernanda Mioto - Vice-presidentGisela Sales CordeiroMarcelino dos Santos | alternateMarta Elizabete Vieira Santana | alternateRui de Sá Rodrigues | alternateBoard of DirectorsJorge Eduardo Durão | PresidentJuana Kweitel | Vice President and Head of ProjectsMafoane Odara | Vice President and Head of TrainingMarcos José Pereira da Silva | Vice-president and Head of FinanceJuana Kweitel took office in December 2016, replacing Atila Roque.
Staff Brazil Human Rights FundExecutive Coordination Address: Rua Santa Isabel, 137 – Conjunto 42Ana Valéria Araújo | Executive Director São Paulo – SP – CEP 01221-010Maíra Junqueira | Deputy Executive Director Phone: + 55 11 3256-7852 www.fundodireitoshumanos.org. br facebook.com/fundobrasil twitter.com/fundobrasilFinancial AdministrationGislene Aniceto | Administrative and Financial Manager EDITORIAL BOARD AND STAFFCélia Elizabete F. da Luz | Cleaning Assistant Editor: Ana Valeria AraujoLuiza Kaneko | Administrative Assistant Editing staff: Ana Valeria Araujo, Deborah Borges and Maira JunqueiraMayk Cardoso | Financial Analyst Texts: Cristina CamargoUlly Carolina Barbosa Zizo | Administrative Assistant Photos: Brazil Fund Collection Graphic Design: Brazz DesignProjectsTaciana Gouveia | Project ManagerMaria Chiriano | Project AnalystPedro Lagatta | Project AnalystRelations with SocietyMaíra Junqueira | Development and Institutional Relations ManagerCristina Camargo | Communication SpecialistDébora Borges | Development OfficerSimone Nascimento | Social Media AssistantThamara de Carvalho | Development AssistantAll material published in this report is under the Creative Commons license CC.BY.4.0 (https: // creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) and it may be reproduced without priorpermission of the Brazil Human Rights Fund, provided citing the original source, including the author of the text or photo if applicable. Derivative works must be licensed byCC.BY.4.0
INDEX10 YEARS OF WORK 8A decade of achievements - Ana Valéria Araújo 9Strategic plan 10Our numbers 11Mission 13SUPPORTING CIVIL SOCIETY 15MAKING RESOURCES AVAILABLE 16 Calls for Proposals 16 17 Fighting institutional violence and discrimination 24 28 United against the violence that kills Brazilian youth 30 Fighting Human Trafficking 33 34 Strategic Litigation 36 38 Special Funding Line - Criminal Justice 38 40 Pre-trial detention in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo 42 44 Pre-trial detention in the Northeast of Brazil focused on racial issues 49 Emergency Fund 50STRENGTHENING CAPACITIES 52 52 Conference on Strategic Litigation on Human Rights 53 Projects meetings Exchanges Visits MOBILIZATION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGNS #NãoTáTranquiloNãoTáFavorável Say yes to human rights in Brazil Change Nota Fiscal Paulista program
54PROMOTING PHILANTHROPY FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE 54 Participation in the Philanthropy Network for Social Justice 54 55 Publication of WGPSJP 55 AWID Forum IHRFG Conference 56 56STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION 58 A country of rights 59 Launch of calls for proposals at the concert “Teresa Cristina Canta Cartola” 60 Reinforcing Transparency 61 Innovating in Digital Communication 61 Disseminating Human Rights Content Discussing Strategic Communication BALANCE SHEET AND AUDIT 63ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 70
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Activities Report 2016 9oA fdaeccahdieevementsThe year 2016 marked Brazil Fund’s 10th Throughout 2016, Brazil Fund evaluated itsanniversary. The foundation was a pioneer core activities in these ten years of operation,in the field and innovated by supporting seeking to identify how successful it has beenorganizations and groups working to defend in accomplishing its initial goals, as well ashuman rights and fighting different violations. ways to promote the necessary adjustments toThrough its work, it reached every corner assure effective responses to new challenges.of the country. It strengthened voices and Thereafter, we worked on the construction ofmade new social partnerships. At the same the strategic planning for the coming years.time, it became larger and stronger. Great are the challenges and among them thereThere is every reason to celebrate the is the urgent need to promote dialogue betweenstrengthening of a foundation that groups and actors aiming at strengtheningstarted small and managed to grow in a the human rights field. Now, more maturesustainable way, expanding its capacity to and stronger in its ability to innovate, Brazilsupport initiatives that were fundamental Fund also wants to contribute to this task.to the country during this period. In this report, we present figuresIn times when the country is witnessing concerning our growth over the last tenthe dismantling of human rights structures years and the activities carried out inconquered over the years, the criminalization 2016, which contributed to this result.of actors and social movements, and violencetowards the most vulnerable segments of our Good reading!population has reached unacceptable levels,the work performed by Brazil Fund is more Ana Valeria Araujofundamental than ever – it is a reliable support Executive Coordinator of Brazil Fundin the face of the absolute need to resist.
Brazil Human Rights FundStrategic plan#10YEARS OF BRAZIL FUNDOver the last ten years, Brazil Fund defined its main strategic objectives for the next years.The paths to be taken in order to reach these goals have also been defined. The resolutioncame after a broad evaluation, reflection and debates, which counted on the participationof members of the Board of Trustees, Board of Directors and the Fund’s staff.• Strengthen small, medium and • Promote a communication processlarge groups and organizations, that contributes to a changeincluding new actors, in their of culture and behavior that isorganizational processes and in favorable to human rights.their fight for human rights. • To promote the increase of donations• To enable the conditions for to the human rights cause in Brazil.dialogue and the confluence ofthe various groups and actors • Promote the institutionaland for the reconfiguration of development and financialthe field of human rights. sustainability of Brazil Fund.• Strengthen human rights protectionnetworks In the face of increasingviolations at different levels.
Activities Report 2016 11Our Numbersin 10 yearsR$ 12 10 ANNUAL CALLSMILLIONS FOR PROPOSALS and 7 THEMESDonated to humanrights organizations20 Capacity OverBuilding workshops for representatives 300of the projects supported by Brazil Fund PROJECTS Supported More than 150 VISITS to the projects we 5 regionsSupport in the of Brazil 20More than public AWARENESS raising events 14 CAMPAIGNS and COMMUNICATION PRODUCTS
Activities Report 2016 13OUR NUMBERS IN 2016Funding Line Supported Projects2016 - Annual Call 20Call for Proposals - “Strategic Litigation” 11Call for Proposals - “Fighting Human Trafficking” 8Call for Proposals – “United against the violence that kills the Brazilian youth” 15Special Funding Line - Criminal Justice/ RJ and SP 6Special Funding Line - Criminal Justice/ Northeast Region 4Emergency Fund 4Total 68 Mission Brazil Human Rights Fund’s mission is to promote the respect for human rights in Brazil, building innovative and sustainable mechanisms to channel resources to strengthen civil society organizations and develop philanthropy for social justice.
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Brazil Human Rights FundMaking resources availableMothers of May Movement (Photo: Rafael Bonifácio) CALLS FOR PROPOSALSIn 2016, we selected proposals through two calls, a priority in the present historical moment insupporting 35 projects in the whole country. The Brazil. We also provided emergency funding toamounts donated reached R$ 677,250.00. This four projects. In this report, we covered projectsyear, the highlight was the opportunity to support selected in previous years, through calls forprojects to support youth in their fight against proposals and invitation letters that in 2016state violence, which allowed Brazil Fund to go received funding to continue the projects.deeper into a very relevant theme, which became
Activities Report 2016 17Annual call“Fight againstinstitutionalviolence anddiscrimination” Twenty projects were chosen through a broad and transparent selection process. These proposals were divided into several different themes related to the defense of rights. We count on a selection committee formed by Beth Cardoso, coordinator of the Women and Agroecology in Network Program of the Zona da Mata Center for Alternative Technologies; Cleia Silveira, Coordinator of the Saap Fund; Letícia Tura, Executive Director of Fase; Miguel Lago, of the My River network; Mônica Oliveira, Consultant and former Director of Programs at Seppir (Secretariat for Affirmative Action Policies); Paulo Pankararu, Indigenous lawyer; And Samira Bueno, Executive Director of the Brazilian Forum of Public Security.
Brazil Human Rights Fund Projects Transvestites, Transsexuals and Supported Transgender Association of Goiás OBJECTIVE: Elaborate and produce aAACE - Antinuclear reference guide to subsidize the creationarticulation of Ceará of a culture of prevention of humanOBJECTIVE: Make sure that the peasant trafficking, with information onpopulations directly affected by nuclear energy the theme and ways to identify andproduction and fertilizers are able to preserve act against this type of crime.their traditional ways of life and work, and theirsustainable development in Ceará. ACTIONS: Establish a dialogue with governmental and non-governmental actors at the federal,ACTIONS: Through an advocacy campaign, make state and municipal levels; promote workshopsvisible and focus the socio-environmental impacts to elaborate information material; produce andcaused by the production of nuclear energy and disseminate this material; meetings and visits tofertilizers in the central hinterland region of Ceará. the places where these public services are offered.MAIN THEMES: Environmental MAIN THEMES: Right to free sexualrights within mega-projects. orientation and gender identity.Sports and Cultural Capoeira Seven Colors LGBT AssociationAssociation Mestre Bimba OBJECTIVE: Contribuir para a formaçãoOBJECTIVE: To preserve and protect Afro- política de jovens LGBT moradores das regiõesBrazilian religious temples in the metropolitan da Mata, Agreste e Sertão Pernambucanoarea of Goiânia, focusing on the cities of para o enfrentamento às diversas formasGoiânia and Aparecida de Goiânia.. de preconceito e discriminação, além da sensibilização de gestores municipais.ACTIONS: Seminar; free legal advice to Afro-Brazilian religion temples seeking regularization; ACTIONS: Training and planning meetingsMonthly meetings of articulation of the of the LGBT network of the countrysideForum of Religions of African Origin of Goiás; cities of the State of Pernambuco; meetingsa Carnaval group; Afonso Oju Odê Walk. with public authorities; training course for LGBT leaders; evaluation meeting.MAIN THEMES: Confronting racism. MAIN THEMES: Right to free sexual orientation and gender identity.
Activities Report 2016 19Single Mothers Association Campestre FM Communityof Pernambuco Radio AssociationOBJECTIVE: Ensure the acknowledgement OBJECTIVE: Promote and discuss the issue ofof paternity to at least a thousand children, violence against women in the city of Campestre,through the establishment of interactions Alagoas, through the dissemination of information,between women, wives, partners, prisoners training and reporting of cases occurred in the city.and ex-wives of prisoners strengthening theiraffective and family bonds. ACTIONS: Radio, photography and free media communication workshops; training sessionACTIONS: Distribution of flyers to the fami- on human rights with emphasis on women’slies of detainees with information about the rights; production of a radio show with womenproject; awareness raising debates, lectures centered themes, such as women’s healthand seminars; elaboration of graphic material; and rights; campaign on violence againstmeetings with public authorities; dissemina- women; dissemination of educational, trainingtion of information and debates on legislation; and informational material on the rights ofperiodic visits to prisons, distribution of flyers women; lectures in schools; a seminar.and meetings with partners and prison autho-rities; identification of document status to re- MAIN THEMES: Women’s Rights.quest authorities for the acknowledgement ofpaternity; evaluation interview; exposure in the Association of Womenpress; seminars; collective work and petitions. Producers of Pajeú OBJECTIVE: Empower women from thisMAIN THEMES: Women’s Rights. region to build strategies that allow tackling the various forms of violence experiencedQUILOMBOLA ASSOCIATION in women’s everyday life, especiallyMAROBA DOS TEIXEIRA gender and institutional violence.OBJECTIVE: To foster maroon people’sterritorial articulation, by pressing for land ACTIONS: Seminar; trainings with leaders;regularization and fighting social inequality, workshops to disseminate the knowledgein addition to strengthening each specific acquired in the training; newsletters; applicationstruggle of the maroon communities. of questionnaires identifying organizations that support and protect women victims of violence.ACTIONS: Planning meetings, organizationand preparation of activities; socialization MAIN THEMES: Women’s Rights.meetings, systematization and furtherdevelopment of the main issues; elaborationand strategy meeting; workshops; solidarityactions; public action in favor of landregularization and titling of maroon territories.MAIN THEMES: : Rights of Maroonsand Traditional Peoples
Brazil Human Rights FundBAMIDELÊ - WOMEN GROUP OF WOMEN FAMILYORGANIZATION IN PARAÍBA MEMBERS OF ADOLESCENTS INOBJECTIVE: Contribute to the implementation JUVENILE DETENTION UNITSof Law 10.639 / 03, which determines the OBJECTIVE: Strengthen women’s autonomyteaching of Afro-Brazilian and African history in the struggle to defend their rights andand culture emphasizes the importance of the those of the adolescents in juvenile detentionBlack culture in the education of Brazilian society units in the state of Ceará through politicaland consider it as an instrument to confront education, community mobilization and theracism, developing a process of awareness raising establishment of communication channels toin the schools, community and in society. report the violations they suffer on a daily basis.ACTIONS: Training activities with teachers; ACTIONS: Promotion of the work performedstory telling; educational activities; the by the group of women family membersevent Saberes Negros Fair; interventions in of adolescents in juvenile detention units;social media; process and dissemination of series of local meetings; exchange meetingssuccessful law enforcement experiences. to integrate the participant women to integrate them and share experiences on waysMAIN THEMES: Confronting racism. to resist the violations of rights; integrate agendas with the feminist movement. MAIN THEMES: Rights of children and adolescents.Yves de Roussan Center for Transas do Corpo Group -the Defense of Children and Educational activities onAdolescents - Cedeca gender, health and sexualityOBJECTIVE: To sensitize and provide tools OBJECTIVE: To build spaces for dialoguefor teachers and students to prevent sexual and exchange of experiences betweenviolence so that they can identify, denounce youth and adults in public schools in Goiásand direct cases to the safety network. on the types of existing violence and human rights advances on the issue.ACTIONS: Preparation of pedagogic andinformative material; provide trainings for ACTIONS: Integrated arts following the pedagogythe school’s professionals; workshops with implemented by the Theater of the oppressed;students of those institutions; elaboration exhibition of videos produced by womenof a report as a final product of the activities working against gender violence; productioncarried out; event to present the results. and presentation of a news-theater show aiming at critically analyzing the role of media.MAIN THEMES: Rights ofchildren and adolescents. MAIN THEMES: Right to freedom of expression, organization and manifestation.
Activities Report 2016 21Madeira Vivo Institute - IMV Mothers of MayOBJECTIVE: The main objective is to Independent Movementdenounce the violation of human rights due OBJECTIVE: Raise awareness and promoteto the implementation of the hydroelectric historical and aesthetic elaboration to ensurecomplex on the Madeira River, in Rondônia. the right to memory, truth, justice, reparation and peace in the city of São Paulo.ACTIONS: Obtain from Caiari Radio, of PortoVelho, a 90 minutes slot to execute the show ACTIONS: Capacity building activities with poetic,Vozes da Amazônia; Strengthen the Network of hip-hop and audiovisual interventions on the 10thEntities in Defense of Life; using free legal advice anniversary of the May Crimes; Convergence ofservices prepare and file in court a lawsuit for photographic, plastic and literature materialthe compensation of the flooded communities; produced during the activities; compilationorganize a seminar; produce information material. and publication of the book “10 Years of the May Crimes - The Funeral March Continues”.MAIN THEMES: Environmentalrights within mega-projects. MAIN THEMES: Guaranteeing the rule of law and criminal justice.Izaque João (individual project)OBJECTIVE: Disclose and denounce human Collective Work for Citizenship/rights violations against practitioners of Xingu Vivo Movementtraditional Guarani-Kaiowá religiosity, OBJECTIVE: Encourage and support theour Nhanderu and Nhandesy (shamans, resistance played by the population threatenedor chanters) and their followers. by the mining company Belo Sun through the promotion of capacity training, information, socialACTIONS: Visits to communities of indigenous mobilization and articulation of the authoritiespeople in Mato Grosso do Sul to collect related to the Judiciary power in Pará.testimonies on the cases; event to bring togetherthe Nhanderu and Nhandesy and formulate ACTIONS: Visits to the islands whereproposals to be presented to public authorities; communities are threatened by the miningdissemination of information on social media on company; organization of meeting with thesea website/blog; summarizing of information. communities; meeting with public authorities in Altamira; capacity building meetingsMAIN THEMES: Rights of Indigenous Peoples. with communities on the Xingu islands. MAIN THEMES: Environmental rights within mega-projects.
Brazil Human Rights FundFriends of the Earth Brazil (ATBr) NETWORK OF COMMUNITIES ANDOBJECTIVE: Resist, promote people’s MOVEMENTS AGAINST VIOLENCEempowerment, and report rights violations in OBJECTIVE: To strengthen the work carried outthree territories in the southern region by relatives of victims of institutional violenceof Brazil, in urban and rural areas, in a in the state of Rio de Janeiro in the struggle forcontext of nature financialization. justice and against state violence in the favelas.ACTIONS: Capacity building on privatization, ACTIONS: Psychological assistance for relativescommodification and financialisation of nature, of victims of institutional violence; follow-upcommon goods and public spaces; experience with the families involved in the most recentexchange and reports of violations of rights; cases; gatherings to promote solidarity andproduction of audiovisual and printed material; experience exchange; collective elaborationproduction and launch of dossier on this issue; of an activities schedule; public hearing.monitoring and production of information. MAIN THEMES: Guaranteeing theMAIN THEMES: Environmental rule of law and criminal justice.rights within mega-projects. OMOLAYE SOCIETY OFIndigenous Organization of ETHNIC, POLITICAL, SOCIALthe Kayapó do Baú - OIB AND CULTURAL STUDIESOBJECTIVE: Fight mining activities inside OBJECTIVE: Provide legal and communicationand outside indigenous lands through the assistance to the religious people andmobilization of Kayapó leaders and communities to the Afro-Brazilian temples in Sergipeof the Indigenous land of Baú and Mekrangnotire. that suffer institutional racism.ACTIONS: Research on the main mining ACTIONS: Prepare and supervise judicialareas; demand rights from public authorities; and administrative processes;organize meeting with indigenous mobilization and collective constructionleaders to dialogue and define strategies; of strategies; organization of a counciloccupation of mineral exploration areas; composed of older religious women;demonstrations; awareness raising. capacity building and training workshops; communication strategies; seminar.MAIN THEMES: Rights of Indigenous Peoples. MAIN THEMES: Confronting racism.
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Brazil Human Rights FundThe call for proposals was released in comic book format (Photo: Brazil Fund)Call for proposals“United against the violencethat kills the Brazilian youth”Support 15 projects distributed in ten Brazilian The projects were analyzed by a selectionstates focused on facing the violence that committee formed by the lawyer Valdêniaaffects youth, especially the Black youth. The Paulino, from the Human Rights Defense Centercall sought to strengthen the proactivity of of Sapopemba, in São Paulo; by the journalistyoung people in the struggles for their rights Itamar Silva of Ibase (Brazilian Institute of Socialand was launched in the form of a comic book, and Economic Analysis), in Rio de Janeiro; Andseeking to dialogue with this audience. economist José Carlos Zanetti, from Cese, in Bahia.
Activities Report 2016 25ProjectsSupportedCDDH MARÇAL DE SOUZA TUPÃ-I Center for Defense of HumanOBJECTIVE: To promote the importance Rights - CDH Petrópolisof protecting the dignity and human OBJECTIVE: To conduct a research-rights of adolescents in conflict with intervention to investigate the number ofthe law in Campo Grande (MS). teenagers arrested in Petrópolis, identifying whether the arrests were related to drugsACTIONS: Thematic workshops; discussions; and the type of sentences they received for theseminars; reporting and addressing of committed offences. The research aims to discusscomplaints; partners articulation; visits the position taken by judges on the Statute ofto juvenile detention units to the Child and Adolescent (ECA), consideringassist the adolescents. the issue in a profound way from the experiences and denunciations received and the reading ofCARMEN BASCARÁN CENTER FOR the bibliography raised. Interventions to assistTHE DEFENSE OF LIFE AND HUMAN the adolescents will also be carried out.RIGHTS - CDVCH / CB - MARANHÃOOBJECTIVE: Contribute to the fight against ACTIONS: To draw the profile of the adolescentsviolations of fundamental rights, violence and who are in juvenile detention units; systematizesocial exclusion of young people in situation of reports of mistreatment; seminars; assist thesocial vulnerability in Maranhão by means of adolescents in the units; meetings; organizationproducing art and culture as a strategy of group meetings with those adolescentsto encourage the proactivity and who have already been in the units.social participation of youth. NATIONAL INDIGENOUSACTIONS: Offer capacity training courses YOUTH COMMISSION - CNJIfor socio-cultural educators on human rights - NORTH EAST REGIONthemes and on the art of African dance; OBJECTIVE: Mobilize and empower theCapacity training courses for socio-cultural indigenous youth in Ceara on the violationseducators in human rights on the art of of indigenous rights in the present days.capoeira; Mobilization and social awarenessevents; speeches; walking; seminars. ACTIONS: Regional and state workshops; Visits to indigenous communities.
Brazil Human Rights FundCOMMITTEE OF THE STATE OF CEARÁ GRUPO OUSADIA JUVENILFOR THE DEMILITARIZATION OF (DARING YOUTH GROUP)POLITICS AND OF THE POLICE OBJECTIVE: Reflect upon the reality experiencedOBJECTIVE: Promote dialogue with people by Black youth in low income communities in theliving in areas where the military is most east of Mossoro, Rio Grande do Norte, highlightinglethal and where it most violates rights. the lack of specific public policies for youth.ACTIONS: Series of workshops; seminars, ACTIONS: Lectures on public policies and on thehearings and meetings; preparation of extermination of Black youth; debates; gatherings;dossier and booklet; articulation with a seminar; a documentary and a festival.youth movements; cultural events.OJU IFÀ COMMUNITY PEOPLE’s UNIVERSITYOBJECTIVE: To form a working group through INSTITUTE - UNIPOPthe mobilization of young people to identify OBJECTIVE: Enabling the creation of a newsinstitutional and lethal violence victims in Sergipe, agency that fights the extermination of youngas well as to point to the spectacularization of people, especially poor and Black youth.vulnerabilities and moral offenses directed to thehonor and to the image, and also the state inertia. ACTIONS: Capacity training workshops; mapping of initiatives in the peripheral communities ofACTIONS: Mobilization of youth; consolidation Belém to produce content and disseminateof the working group; legal advice; seminar it on social media; mobilization; monitoring;celebrating the launch of the project. public hearing in the Legislative Assembly.CONEXAO LGBT CITIZENSHIP LEVANTE POPULAR DAGROUP FOR SLUM DWELLERS JUVENTUDE (Youth Uprising)OBJECTIVE: Creation of the itinerant group OBJECTIVE: Contribute to set the issue of Black“Nice to Meet You, I exist”, to provide assistance youth extermination in the public agendaand guidance to the people who are victims of as a social problem, as well as in theprejudice and discrimination based on sexual political agenda of public authorities.orientation and gender identity in Rio de Janeiro. ACTIONS: Organize groups of young multipliers;ACTIONS: Articulation with the community articulate a network in five Brazilian states;leaderships of other slums; assistance; creating of development of mobile phone app; database;electronic application to be used as a denouncing capacity training for students from public schools.tool for the LGBT population of slums.
Activities Report 2016 27MOVIMENTO HIP HOP ORGANIZADO RAPROATIVO(MH20) E TURMA SÃO BENTO OBJECTIVE: Raise critical awareness of theOBJECTIVE: To value the historical experiences children and adolescents living in Pirituba,of the national hip-hop movement that were in the outskirts of São Paulo, about theiraimed at the prevention and resistance to rights, denouncing the violence in theviolence, above all the institutional and police outskirts of big cities and the omission in theviolence used against the Black and poor institutional fulfillment of these rights.youth living in the outskirts of big cities. ACTIONS: Publicizing of actions and formationACTIONS: Hip-Hop meetings at the São of partnership with other organizations;Bento Metro Station; a large meeting at the occupation of public spaces; gatheringend of the year; implementation and launch of information in a portfolio that willof an on-line memorial; elaboration of training serve to organize other occupations.material, both printed and on video. REVISTA AFIRMATIVALEGAL ASSISTANCE CENTER (Affirmative Magazine)FOR THE PEOPLE - NAJUP OBJECTIVE: Make a public call for youngOBJECTIVE: Promote legal and political communicators to produce a video series andtraining for the youth of the Terena indigenous a printed magazine about youth violence.people living in Mato Grosso do Sul ontheir rights as citizens, raising awareness ACTIONS: Public call for the production ofto their rights as indigenous people. videos; election of a team of curators; creation of a YouTube channel; free media training course;ACTIONS: Training workshops; youth rehearsal contest; free distribution of half ofmeetings with indigenous leaders (caciques); the of the printed version of the magazineresearch on the indigenous youth. in university preparatory courses and Black youth groups in the state of Bahia; elaborationODARA BLACK WOMEN’S INSTITUTE of a series of stories to be broadcastedOBJECTIVE: Raise awareness of five communities on the web, at the Affirmative Portal.in the outskirts of Salvador about the harmand impacts caused by police violence anddrug trafficking in the lives of adolescents,young Black men and their families.ACTIONS: Advocacy actions; public hearing;seminars; strengthening of solidarity andprotection network actions; workshops;
Brazil Human Rights FundThe specific call for proposals launched in 2015 (Acervo Fundo Brasil) call for proposals FIGHTIng human traffickingLaunched in 2015, this call was made to a publication that seeks to record thegroups fighting human trafficking. Eight processes, results and learning of Brazilorganizations were supported that year. In Fund through the actions held.2016, the actions carried out through thisannouncement were systematized in The publication can be accessed here.
Activities Report 2016 29 Projects SupportedAprosmig - Prostitutes Association of Minas GeraisCAMTRA – House of the Working Women (Rio de Janeiro) SupportSupport Center and Immigrants Pastoral (São Paulo)Guaribas Group of Free Sexual Orientation (Piauí)Carmen Bascarán Center For The Defense Of Life And Human Right - CDVCH / CB - MaranhãoCria – Teenagers Reference Center - BahiaBrazilian Amazon Indigenous Women Group - Umiab - AmazonHuman Mobility Pastoral - Diocese Santa Cruz De Corumbà - Mato Grosso Do Sul
Brazil Human Rights Fund Call for Proposal Strategic LitigationLitigância Estratégica The publication “Strategic Litigation inem Direitos Humanos Human Rights - Experiences and Reflections”Experiências e reflexões presents the results of the projects developed thanks to the specific call launched in 2014. The call for “Strategic litigation, advocacy and communication for the promotion, protection and defense of human rights” was held in partnership with Ford Foundation. The articles on the publication show eleven emblematic cases in which actions aimed at the Judiciary power and government sectors made possible the transformation of situations involving the violations of rights. The articles were written by the groups themselves and edited by Brazil Fund. In addition to the cases, the publication provides reflections through interviews with specialists in the subject. An overview of the Strategic Litigation and Human Rights Conference held in April 2016 was also organized. Access the publication here.
Activities Report 2016 31Projects #10YEARS OFSupported BRAzIL FUNDAccess - Citizenship and Human Ana Valéria Araújo at the Innovare Award (Press Release)Rights (Rio Grande do Sul) foundation receivesTapeba de Caucaia Indigenous menção honorableCommunities Association (Ceará) mention at the Innovare AwardAssociation of Lawyers ofRural Workers in the State of The honorable mention in the Justice and Citi-Bahia - AATR (Bahia) zenship category of the Innovare Award was an important achievement in the 10th anniversaryAlternative Agriculture Center of the of Brazil Fund.North of Minas - CAA NM (Minas Gerais) The honorable mention in the 13th edition ofCenter for the Defense of Children and this award was granted to the call “Strategic li-Adolescents of Ceará - Cedeca-CE tigation, advocacy and communication for the promotion, protection and defense of humanCenter for the Defense of rights” held in partnership with the Ford Fou-Children and Adolescents Maria ndation.dos Anjos - CDCA-RO Four hundred and eighty-two projects wereClinic of Human Rights of the enrolled in this category and only two reachedJoinville Region University - the final round.Univille (Santa Catarina) The Innovare Award is the most importantClinic of Fundamental Rights of award involving Brazilian Justice and seeks tothe State University of Rio honor initiatives in the search for solutions tode Janeiro’s Law School the challenges faced by all those who work in the justice system, whether in the administrati-Lawyers Group for Human ve or judicial fields.Rights - CADHu (São Paulo)Study, Extension and ResearchGroup DiHuCi- Federal Universityof PiauíPeoples Legal Advisory Center ofRibeirão Preto - Najurp (São Paulo)
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Activities Report 2016 33SPECIAL FUNDING LINECRIMINAL JUSTICEPre-trial detention in Rio de Janeiro and São PauloThis special funding line is a partnership All initiatives were chosen in 2014 and receivedbetween Brazil Fund and OAK Foundation. invitation letters. This support made possibleThe supported projects have fought the the strengthening of organizations workinghuman rights violations faced by incarcerated to implement and transform public policies.people in pre-trial detention regime. The groups developed activities regarding theIn 2016, Brazil Fund followed the development of documentation and monitoring of activities;their activities and provided part of the expected they carried out campaigns; advocacy andfunding for the six projects financed by this special litigation; technical advice and applied research.funding line in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. Projects SupportedInstituto Terra de Trabalho, Trabalho e Cidadania - ITTC (São Paulo)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Institute of Religion Studies - Iser (Rio de Janeiro)Instituto de Defensores de Direitos Humanos – DDH (Rio de Janeiro)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Institute for Defense of the Right to Defense – IDDD (São Paulo)National Prison Pastoral (São Paulo)Criminal Justice (Rio de Janeiro)
Brazil Human Rights FundPre-trial detention in the Northeast ofBrazil with a focus on racial issuesThis initiative stems from the partnership Racism is a structuring element in Brazilianformed between Brazil Fund and Open society and manifests itself in all social relationsSociety Foundation, which for the first time in the country, including in the prison system.made it possible to support initiatives thataddress human rights violations in pre-trial The four supported organizations were selecteddetention regime prisons, with a specific by means of an invitation letter. The projectsfocus on racism in the Northeast region. were analyzed by specialists in the theme.ProjectsSupportedLegal Assistance Office for ACTIONS: Debates with police instructors onGrassroots Organizations racism; capacity building meetings; meetings withOBJECTIVE: To support the rights of people the Public Prosecutor, the Judiciary power andin pre-trial detention in Pernambuco in their the Public Defender; data collection at custodyfight against the abusive and illegal use of hearings; qualitative interviews with provisionalpre-trial detention, with a focus on racism. prisoners; a publicity campaign on the theme; a seminar and an evaluation of the campaign.
Activities Report 2016 35INEGRA - BLACK WOMEN’S SOCIEDADE MARANHENDE DE HumanINSTITUTE OF CEARÁ Rights Society of Maranhão (SMDH)OBJECTIVE: The project will focus on public OBJECTIVE: Evaluate the implementation andpolicies, so that incarcerated Black women in Ceará effectiveness of custody hearings for the reductioncan have fast access to justice ensuring their rights of pre-trial detention in the Northeast ofand reducing the number of pre-trial detainees. Brazil, with a view to raising awareness to the level of selective violence employedACTIONS: Organize meetings with networks and by the justice system, which relates tosocial movements; working group to search for social class, race/color and territory.alternatives; seminars, public hearings, lecturesand monitoring visits; assist women serving ACTIONS: Visits to prison’s screening units;alternative sentences; a communication campaign. interviews with temporary detainees and their families; monitoring of custody hearings; reporting on the visits; systematization of data and analysis of the status of provisional prisoners in custody hearings; meetings with the public organs related to the issue; publicizing the project.IDEAS - POPULAR ADVISORYOBJECTIVE: Support the fight againstcriminalization, mass incarceration and thegenocide of Black people, working to reducethe incidence of detentions and the numberof prisoners in precautionary and pre-trialdetentions resulting from crimes related totrafficking, robbery and theft of small amounts.ACTIONS: Requesting data from publicorgans of the criminal enforcement system;offering legal education; strategic litigation;research on the modus operandi of the organsof the penitentiary system and collection ofdata on the profile of the prison population;publication of research data; debate.
Brazil Human Rights FundEMERGENCYFUNDEXAMPLES OF EMERGENCY SUPPORT OFFERED IN 2016Center for the Defense of Children TONICO BENITESand Adolescents of Ceará - Cedeca The emergency support granted to TonicoThe emergency support provided by Brazil Benites, an indigenous Guarani-Kaiowá,Fund made possible the participation made possible the participation of indigenousof Cedeca - Ceará in the Inter-American leaders in an “Aty Guasu emergencial”Commission on Human Rights of the OAS held between December 16 to 18 with the/ IACHR (Organization of American States) participation of an European Parliamentsession, held last December, in Panama. commission during its visit to Mato Grosso do Sul.In 2015, together with Anced (National Association Aty Guasu is a large assembly of the Guarani-of Child and Adolescent Defense Centers) and Kaiowá people. The Guarani-Kaiowa havethe DCA Forum (Permanent NGO Forum for organized these assemblies since the latethe Defense of the Rights of the Child and 1970s, with the objective of supporting the resistance to land eviction and to recoverand the adolescent), Cedeca Ceará filed a the land from which dozens of communitiespetition at the Inter-American Commission were evicted throughout the 20th century.on Human Rights of the OAS / IACHRdenouncing violations in the socio-educationalsystem of Ceará against the rights ofadolescents deprived of their freedom.The session was an important opportunityto update the details of the case to theCommission, with the ultimate goal ofending the violations in Ceará.
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Brazil Human Rights FundSTRENGTHENING CAPACITIESIn 2016, in addition to offering financial support, The exchange of experiences and theBrazil Fund sought to strengthen its partners strengthening of organizations are somethrough activities such as capacity building of the positive consequences of theseworkshops for human rights defenders, exchanges, something that differentiatesdiscussions, conferences and seminars. Brazil Fund in a scenario of setbacks in the area of human rights with the increasingFor the first time in the Fund’s history, we need to resist the challenges imposed.also carried out exchange activities amongthe supported organizations as a way to The Fund also carries out monitoring visits,promote closer contact between human through which it offers technical and strategicrights defenders who work on the same assistance and has the opportunity to watch fromthemes in different regions of the country. close the reality faced by the supported groups. In addition, the projects are continuously monitored by the Brazil Fund team.STRATEGIC LITIGATIONin Human Rights ConferenceIn April, Brazil Fund held a conference on “Strategic The invited debaters were Eloísa Machado, aLitigation in Human Rights” in partnership with professor at the Strategic Litigation Clinic atFord Foundation at Getulio Vargas Foundation FGV Direito SP; Celeste Melão, coordinator ofLaw School’s auditorium, in São Paulo. In addition the Model Office and professor at the Facultyto the conference, the representatives of the of Law of PUC-SP; Daniel Sarmento, lawyersupported projects on this theme participated in and professor of law at UERJ; Darci Frigo,discussion panels and exchanged experiences. coordinator of the Land Rights and Platform Dhesca (Paraná); Kenarik Boujikian, Judge ofThe main theme of the conference and the the Court of Justice of São Paulo, memberdiscussion panels was the strengthening of of the Judges for Democracy Associationactions related to emblematic cases that and advisor to the Brazil Fund; And Nívia Monicacould influence state action, the review da Silva, Justice promoter, member of theor implementation of public policies and Public Ministry of Minas Gerais and coordinatorthe improvement of legislation. of the Human Rights CAO in Minas Gerais.
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Brazil Human Rights Fund Projects meetingsRepresentatives from 35 projects supported by In the debates, issues such as the use of theBrazil Fund gathered in São Paulo from December available technologies were addressed; making5 to 9 to participate in formative and capacity the cause visible as a way to strengthen thebuilding activities on youth and political action; performance of groups and collectives; the lackyouth and violence; technologies and the need of space for social themes in traditional mediafor digital security; visibility and communication. vehicles; and the strategies to escape the official narrative adopted by the hegemonic pressIn 2016, the Projects Meeting broughttogether two different groups: project Through the activities proposed by the Brazilrepresentatives supported through the 2016 Fund team, the participants had the opportunityannual call for proposals and representatives to report on the stories of their groups, theof the projects supported by the specific difficulties they faced, the actions that werecall for proposals “United against the taken and the partnerships they formed. Duringviolence that kills Brazilian youth”. these activities, the groups presented their communication strategies, exchanged ideas and discussed the techniques that can be used in the daily routine of human rights defenders.
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Brazil Human Rights FundexchangesRecife the exchange promoted by Brazil Fund also included a conversation with the Pina communityBetween the end of June and the beginning of in Recife about selective police approach and theJuly, organizations working in the Criminal Justice massive incarceration of Black young men, andspecial funding line, gathered in Recife (PE) to a visit to the Derby headquarters to meet thediscuss the experience with custody hearings and Working Group on Racism in the Military Police.the influential role organizations working on thetopic of Criminal Justice play; the problematization The following organizations took part in theof racial issues with a focus on institutional activity Gajop (Office of Legal Advice to theracism; presentation of projects developed Popular Organizations), from Pernambuco;with the support of Brazil Fund and dialogue the Human Rights Society of Maranhão;on common issues, difficulties and prospects the IDDD (Institute for the Defense of theregarding the excess of temporary incarceration. Right to Defense), from São Paulo.Edna Jatobá, of Gajop, duringthe activity held in Recife(Brazil Fund Archive)
Activities Report 2016 43Representatives of the projectsparticipate in the activity held inFortaleza (Brazil Fund Archive)Fortaleza In addition to Fundo Brasil and Inegra, Ideas (Institute for Development of SocialIn July, the project manager of Brazil Fund, Actions) and the Association of RelativesTaciana Gouveia, coordinated an exchange and Friends of Incarcerated People frombetween the organizations from Bahia and Ceará. Bahia participated in the exchange.Gathered in Fortaleza (CE), the participantspresented their projects, exchanged experiencesand discussed perspectives for the future.The exchange also included a debate withwomen participating in the project “For theWings of Maat”, of Inegra (Negra Institute ofCeará), which is one of the groups participatingin the activity. Besides talking about theirrealities, they had the opportunity to knowmore about actions developed in Bahia.
Brazil Human Rights FundVISITSIN MINAS GERAIS, GROUPS SUPPORTED Among the stories shared in the visit, thereBY BRAZIL FUND FIGHT MEGAPROJECTS was one of a couple that has been fighting the mining company in Brumadinho and strugglesThe monitoring trip held in June to traditional to keep their land bought with family savings.communities in Minas Gerais and Marianaregion resulted in the publication of a Another tragic story shared among theseries of materials on Brazil Fund’s site and participants was of a former resident of Bentosocial media on the activities held by local Rodrigues, the district of Mariana that wasorganizations supported by the foundation destroyed by the mud of the mining companyto defend the land and fight megaprojects Samarco after the rupture of the Fundão dam.in the region, such the mining projects. In the Northern region of Minas Gerais, smallThe visits were carried out by the project farmers resist in the Vale das Cancelas againstcoordinator of Brazil Fund, Taciana Gouveia, and the territorial expropriation promoted bythe communication advisor Cristina Camargo. large monoculture plantations of eucalyptus and by mining companies that have beenResidents of Vale das Cancelas, in advancing through the region of GrãoMinas Gerais, in a meeting with Mogol and Alto Rio Pardo de Minas.Brazil Fund (Photo: Solon Queiroz)
Activities Report 2016 45IN RIBEIRÃO PRETO, A COMMUNITYWINS LAW SUITNAJURP (Center for Legal Assistance ofRibeirão Preto), another project supportedby Brazil Fund, offers legal assistance toresidents at risk of losing their homes. In April2016, the Fund and the project’s participantsvisited one of the supported communities andheld a discussion with community leaders.With the assistance of Najurp, theresidents of the João Pessoa and NazaréPaulista communities won, in 2016, therepossession suit that threatened them.The work was performed through a partnershipheld with the Public Defender’s Office. Márcia Silva, community leader from Ribeirão Preto gathered with Najurp and Brazil Fund (Photo: Pierre Duarte)Visita de monitoramento ao Najurp, emRibeirão Preto (Foto: Pierre Duar-te)?????????????????????????
Brazil Human Rights FundORGANIZATIONS VISITED BY BRAZIL FUND IN 2016 Association of rural workers’ lawyers of the state of Bahia (AATR) - Strategic Litigation Association of prostitutes of Minas Gerais - Fighting Human Traffic Ceabir - Afro Brazilian Study Center Eronildes Rodrigues - Annual call for proposals Clinic of Fundamental Rights of the University of Rio de Janeiro Law School - Strategic Litigation Alternative Mining Center of the North of Minas - Strategic Litigation Center for the Defense of Human Rights in Petropolis - United against the violence that kills Brazilian youth Centre for the Defense of Children and Adolescents Maria dos Anjos - CDCA RO - Strategic Litigation Umbanda Center Caboclo Tupy - Annual call for proposals Cria - Reference Center for the adolescent - Fighting Human Trafficking Youth Forum of Rio de Janeiro - Annual call Ideas - Legal Assistance - Criminal Justice Special Funding Line / Northeast Inegra - Inegra Institute of Ceará - Criminal Justice Special Funding Line / Northeast Legal Assistance to Grassroots organizations - Gajop - Criminal Justice Special Funding Line / Northeast G Connection Citizenship Group - United against the violence that kills Brazilian youth Movemnet for the Mountains and Waters of Minas Gerais - MOVSAM - Annual call Najurp - Legal Assistance for the People of Ribeirão Preto - Strategic litigation call for proposals Network of Communities and Movements against Violence - Annual Call for Proposals
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MHUOMBIALINZARTIIGOHNTSFORAlthough the number of individual donors is still Fundraising and the development offar from what would be required to guarantee a local environment that supports thea sustainable support to NGOs working with defense of human rights are actionshuman rights, in 2016, Brazil Fund has made that are part of the Fund’s strategy.progress in what concerns the creation ofstrategies to attract people’s attention to the In 2016, Brazil Fund carried out a seriesimportance of human rights and concerning this of activities in the field of communicationdebate with the different segments of society. with the aim of broadening the human rights mobilization in the country.
Brazil Human Rights FundCAMPAIGNS#NãoTáTranquiloNãoTáFavorávelA second campaign was launched in Those people interested in participating couldAugust and used as a motto the chorus of go the campaign’s hotsite where they would finda popular song in Brazil and through that, messages with hashtags created especially for theit caught the attention of social media. mobilization. More than 200 photos were posted.The digital media was used to provide visibility The campaign was structured around ato the mobilization and to obtain the support Youtube channel, an Instagram profile, aof people in every region of the country. Gmail account to send marketing emails, two street actions, posts and ads on socialThe campaign counted on the participation of media in general, and on Facebook.many celebrities who sent photos holding signswith different hashtag phrases related to the Two street actions also mobilized dozens of peoplethemes supported by Brazil Fund. Artists, activists, at Paulista Avenue and showed that human rightsyoutubers and athletes joined the mobilization. causes have the potential to gather support.Some of the most acnowledged ones were theactivist Maria da Penha, the singer and composer People passing by at Paulista ave. wereLenine, the singers Leci Brandão and Fabiana Cozza, invited to pose for picures holding signsthe actress and one of the Fund’s advisor Letícia related to the themes of the campaign.Sabatella, and the former consulate Alexandra Loras. The images were published on a website specially created for the mobilization.In addition, the general public couldalso participate by sending photos insupport of human rights causes.
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