Mírian Assumpção e Lima is teaching police officers and community members to work together to reduce violent crime and improve public safety in Brazilian cities.
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Roberto da Silva
Ashoka Fellow since Dec 2000
Brazil
História do Presente Org Paulista para Ações Cidadania
Building on his personal, educational, and professional experience with the Brazilian penitentiary system, Roberto da Silva is implementing a comprehensive system for community co-management of prisons that provides citizen institutions with the technical training and partnerships necessary to turn...
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Sylvio Jose de Oliveira has created an independent, voluntary program in the Rio de Janeiro state prison system designed to prevent AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases from spreading among and through the inmates. The focus of this program is to provide health and hygiene information, and...
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Entrevista Ashoka na TV ALESP
Helena Singer e Wellington Nogueira vão ao programa Terceiro Setor da Tv Alesp para falar sobre a Ashoka.
Ashoka na Mídia
Reunimos aqui uma série de reportagens sobre a Ashoka que saem nas mídias brasileiras.
Journalism and Democracy
Ashoka Fellow David Bornstein: "I covered the murder of a woman when I was writing for New York Newsday. And I remember reporting that story — it was really heartbreaking — and my editor calling me up at 5 a.m. the next morning to tell me what a great job I had done, because I'd gotten these really...
Raul Belens Jungmann Pinto
Ashoka Fellow since Nov 1990
Brazil
IDEC - Instituto de Defesa da Cidadania
Planning consultant Raul Jungmann is tackling nothing less than the entire justice and security system in Brazil, working to reform its archaic institutions through popular participation.
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Making Amends: A Restorative Justice Program Seeks to End America’s Epidemic of Violence
Prison reform has become a priority in America’s movements for social and racial justice. Is reform also the key to reducing violence in society? Danielle Sered started and leads Common Justice, America’s only “alternative to prison” program for people charged in the adult criminal courts with...
Inside Ashoka: A New Kind of Prosecutor, with Adam Foss
Prosecutors wield incredible power — and discretion — when it comes to charging people with crimes and ultimately sending them to prison. Decades of a “tough on crime” culture within prosecutor offices have fed mass incarceration and its devastating consequences. But what if we could change that...
Storytellers in Residence - An elected community hosted by Ashoka and partners
People take time out and recruit themselves to accomplish extraordinary things. Around the world, 3,000 leading social entrepreneurs ("Ashoka Fellows") have taken this leap into the unknown, driven by a new idea that they know can solve a social problem at scale. Now, writers, journalists...