Iuri Dantas Iuri Dantas é doutorando do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Literatura, Cultura e Contemporaneidade, na PUC-Rio, com pesquisa sobre o acervo do escritor Érico Veríssimo. Em abril de 2022 defenderá dissertação de mestrado sobre como a literatura articula diferentes silêncios envolvidos no silenciamento de
We are committed to protecting our physical, digital and climate commons today for a better tomorrow The Igarapé Institute celebrates its tenth year anniversary in 2021! Over the past decade, the Institute has dramatically expanded research, awareness and action on public, climate, and digital security
Os últimos quatro decretos de armas, emitidos pelo governo federal na calada da noite da sexta-feira de Carnaval, foram só mais um passo de um plano que vem sendo implementado desde janeiro de 2019, mas que é bem mais antigo
Over the past few months the Igarapé Institute has published extensively on the Amazon in the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, the Agenda, Folha de São Paulo and many other outlets around the world. Most of the focus has been on the extent of deforestation and
Brazil has the third largest prison population in the world. Yet there is comparatively little understanding of the role of women and girls in Brazil’s penal system. According to research conducted by the Igarapé Institute, there were 37,828 women in prisons in 2017, a sevenfold increase on 2000. In order to draw attention to their particular challenges, Igarapé Institute launched the Sócios da Liberdade (Freedom Partners) campaign in October.
At least 1.2 million women suffered from violent victimization in Brazil between 2010 and 2017. In order to reveal the sheer scope and scale of violence against women and help strengthen data collection and public policy responses, Igarapé Institute launched a new data visualization platform.
An influx of eateries and artistic businesses is helping to sweep away decades of neglect and decay 13/03/2018 Originally published on the Financial Times It is a Friday night in central São Paulo and the terrace at Orfeu, a restaurant-cum-club, could be New York’s Greenwich
05/03/2018 MARINA ESTARQUE FROM FOLHA DE S.PAULO, AMAZONAS Bodó, the Amazon sailfin catfish, is known by local residents as a very resistant fish. Its body is covered with rough skin and it can breathe out of water and “live in the mud.” As it
Newsletter nº 1 – 2017 Brazil must squarely address its prison violence crisis Brazil’s prisons are teetering on the edge. In the first three weeks of January 2017, over 110 inmates were brutally killed during prison riots across the country. This is not the
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