Get to know the Fund

Mission
Who we are
  • > Founders
  • > Council
Transparency
  • > Bylaws
  • > Activities Report
  • > Financial Statements
  • > Publications

Our work

Projects
Supporting Civil Society
  • > Calls For Proposals
  • > Special Funding Lines
  • > Emergency Support
  • > Emergency Fund: Covid-19
  • > Capacity Building Activities
  • > Monitoring
  • > Rio Doce Program
Mobilizing for Human Rights
  • > Fundraising
  • > Communication and Visibility
  • > Social Justice Philanthropy

How to support

Donate Now
PARA ONDE VAI O DINHEIRO
Supporters
Fundo Brasil
ENGPOR
DONATE NOW
  • Get to know the Fund
  • Our work
  • How to support
  • FAQ
  • Donator Portal
MENU

Mission

Brazil Human Rights Fund’s mission is to promote respect for human rights in Brazil, building innovative and sustainable mechanisms to channel resources to strengthen civil society organizations and to develop philanthropy for social justice.

More

Who we are

  • > Founders
  • > Council

Transparency

  • > Bylaws
  • > Activities Report
  • > Financial Statements
  • > Publications

Projects

  • > List
  • > Theme

Supporting Civil Society

  • > Calls For Proposals
  • > Special Funding Lines
  • > Emergency Support
  • > Emergency Fund: Covid-19
  • > Capacity Building Activities
  • > Monitoring
  • > Rio Doce Program

Mobilizing for Human Rights

  • > Fundraising
  • > Communication and Visibility
  • > Social Justice Philanthropy

PARA ONDE VAI O DINHEIRO

More

Supporters

Brazil Fund is supported by national and international agencies and foundations, as well as by individuals and businesses.

More

 

Projects

Grita Baixada Forum

Grita Baixada: cinema, human rights and education used as an advocacy tool to foster political mobilization in the Baixada Fluminense region

Rio de Janeiro

Objetivos e público prioritário

Strengthen the political influence carried out by the Grita Baixada Forum in the discussions on public security and in the field of human rights.

Main activities

  • Production of a documentary with victims of violence and their families.
  • Holding meetings on human rights and public safety.
  • Training activities in public schools.
  • Development of communication materials.
  • Photographing and video recording of the meetings.
  • Realization of the first circuit of exhibitions and debates of the Baixada Fluminense cineclubes (film clubs) with the human rights theme.

Context

In the years 2000 and 2010, the structures of political power and economic and socio-cultural gains based on violence have been consolidated, modified and reconfigured permanently. The process that led to this scenario involves the creation of the Death Squads in the late 1960s, Extermination Groups in the 1980s, the election of killers to political office in the 1990s, the growth in the numbers related to drug trafficking, and finally the emergence of militia. The expansion of violence has always been at the service of interests that have never been threatened or interrupted. Increasingly frightening levels of violence lead to ineffective solutions, neglect and abandonment. Operations of war on the poor, pictured as if they were directed at drug trafficking are the institutional answer to this problem. The darker the skin, the poorer the individual, the more segregated the dwelling, the less educated the mind and the greater the punitive discharge that turns the victim into culprit, reduces the human being to indexes and raises the prices in the crime market.

About the organization

The Grita Baixada Forum was born as a space for discussion, training, and incentive to the organization, articulation and mobilization and search for collective solutions by civil society to the social and human rights crisis in the Baixada Fluminense. It was created due to the increasing rates of violence in the region in recent years. The lack of solutions to this issue motivated the request in 2012 of a meeting with the State Government on the subject of public security. On July 25, 2012, in Nova Iguaçu, a meeting was held to prepare an open letter to the authorities. The Secretary of Security at the time, José Mariano Beltrame, said that it was the “first time that the Baixada screamed so loud”, which gave rise to the name of the Forum. The Chatuba and Japeri massacres, with the deaths of nine people – eight of them between 12 and 18 years old – generated a great mobilization to repudiate it and sensitize society on this issue through an ecumenical walk organized by the Forum. The Forum works with political influence, mobilization, and training promoting activities to fight the homicides of Black, young and poor people.

Partnerships

- Human Rights Center of Nova Iguaçu-RJ
- Viva Rio.
- Cidadania Plena
- Pamen Central Human Education Association, Ideas and Alternative Training.
- Pastoral Land Commission
- Public Security Community Council.
- Ação Social Paulo VI.
- Casa Fluminense.

Funding Line

Annual Call for Proposals

Year

-

Total Granted

R$ 40 mil

Duration

12 months

Main Themes

Guaranteeing the rule of law and criminal justice

Outros projetos

Sociedade Paraense de Defesa de Direitos Humanos – SDDH (Pará Society for the Defense of Human Rights – SDDH)

2018 - Pará - In progress

Proposed agenda for the incarceration reduction in the Amazon

More

Sociedade Maranhense de Direitos Humanos (Human Rights Society of Maranhão)

2018 - Maranhão - In progress

Sociedade Maranhense de Direitos Humanos (Human Rights Society of Maranhão)

More

Lawyers Association in defense of Rural Workers in the State of Bahia – AATR

2019 - Bahia - In progress

Popular legal education and the fight against mass incarceration

More

National Network of Afro-Brazilian Religions and Health

2018 - Pernambuco - In progress

Ilekés (Fios de Contas) of Communication

More

Conexão G Group in defense of LGBT citizenship of slum dwellers

2018 - Rio de Janeiro - In progress

Just like you, I also demand my rights!

More

Help transform Brazil!
Colaborate with our work!

DONATE NOW

News

Black women lend strength to female voices speaking out against violations in Mato Grosso

In São Paulo, human rights activists debate paths to Democracy

Black Philanthropy Month: Brazil Fund presents practices for equity and racial justice

More

Projects

Projetos

Get to know the projects we support

More

Site Map

Get to know the Fund

Mission
Who we are
  • > Founders
  • > Council
Transparency
  • > Bylaws
  • > Activities Report
  • > Financial Statements
  • > Publications

Our work

Projects
Supporting Civil Society
  • > Calls For Proposals
  • > Special Funding Lines
  • > Emergency Support
  • > Emergency Fund: Covid-19
  • > Capacity Building Activities
  • > Monitoring
  • > Rio Doce Program
Mobilizing for Human Rights
  • > Fundraising
  • > Communication and Visibility
  • > Social Justice Philanthropy

How to support

Donate Now
PARA ONDE VAI O DINHEIRO
Supporters
  • Who we are
  • Donate Now
  • Supporting Civil Society
  • Mobilizing for Human Rights
  • News
  • Privacy Policy

E-MAIL
[email protected]



ENGPOR
Facebook Instagram Youtube Twitter Linkedin
Creative Commons
Rede Filantropia Selo Doar
Fundo Brasil

Receive news from Brazil Fund