Dismantling of Human Rights as an official project: what's happening in Brazil

A conversation with Ivo Herzog ( Vladimir Herzog Institute, São Paulo, Brazil)

An event organized by the Defend Democracy in Brazil Committee - New York

Moderated by Carolina Parreiras (University of São Paulo & Visiting Scholar at Columbia University)

Join us for an important discussion with Ivo Herzog on the acceleration of dismantling rights in Brazil but also networking with other organizations that can help raise awareness and fight back.

March 5, 2020
6:30PM
The People’s Forum
320 West 37th Street, Ground floor
New York, NY 10018
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Brazilian institutions are going through its worst moment since the Coup D' etat of 2016 , when the country was still rebuilding its democracy after the end of the military dictatorship in 1985. Attacks and harassment of the press, teachers, social movements and human rights defenders; destabilization and dismantling of state commissions, councils and bodies that enable the participation and influence of civil society in the construction and implementation of public policies; the growth of police violence, from the defense of torture and violence to the militarization of politics and life. Brazil is living under a government that not only does not respect democratic institutions and life but is systematically attacking and destroying them. The Bolsonaro government interrupted and dismantled the commissions and mechanisms of states that worked to promote Memory, Truth and Reparation to the victims of the military dictatorship and who were also beginning to make progress in the struggle for justice and to reform the violent and authoritarian institutions that were inherited from dictatorship, such as the military police.

Mr. Herzog will present an overview of this context from the perspective of those who suffered direct violence of the dictatorship, but also of those who built organizations that are fighting to prevent the return of authoritarian rule and for the success of democracy, such as the Vladimir Herzog Institute is doing.
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This event is supported by:
The People's Forum
U.S Network for Democracy in Brazil

Special thanks to Prof. James Green (Brown University).
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Ivo Herzog
Board Chair of the Vladimir Herzog Institute
An engineer graduated from the Polytechnic School of the University of São Paulo, he holds a master's degree (MBA) from Michigan State University. After more than 20 years of experience in private sector companies as project manager and experience in the public sector with the Secretary of Planning of the State of São Paulo, Herzog has worked for 10 years in nonprofit organizations developing the activities of strategic planning, fundraising, project management and executive management of the Vladimir Herzog Institute.
https://vladimirherzog.org

Event by Defend Democracy in Brazil Committee March 5 at The People’s Forum, NYC; Image design by NC/ Syncretic Pleasures

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