«Right-wing hate speech and fake news and its impact on the ways of life of sexual, ethnic and religious minorities - the case of Brazil»

February 26, 2019, 4:00 pm, Auditorium, Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra

Presentation and comments: Ana Cristina Santos, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Bruno Sena Martins (CES)

Organisers: Doctoral Programme «Human Rights In Contemporary Societies», Research Project «INTIMATE | Citizenship, Care and Choice: The Micropolitics of Intimacy in Southern Europe» and José Saramago Foundation

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«Why exile from Brazil today?»
February 27, 2019, 5:30 pm, Casa do Alentejo (Lisbon)

Presentation and comments: Ana Cristina Santos, Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Bruno Sena Martins and Pilar Del Río (FJS)

Organisers: Doctoral Programme «Human Rights In Contemporary Societies» (CES / UC), José Saramago Foundation and Colectivo Andorinha - Frente Democrática Brasileira de Lisboa

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Bio note
Jean Wyllys (Former PSOL MP and LGBT activist)
Holds a Master's in Literature and Linguistics and a degree in Social Communication, with Qualification in Journalism, by the Federal University of Bahia (2000).
A two-term federal MP, he resigned from a third term for which he was re-elected (2019-2022) due to the increasing death threats he has received since the election of President Jair Bolsonaro. He did not take office, opting to leave Brazil, currently living outside the country.
He was a journalist, columnist, TV host and professor in the post-graduate programme in HIV/AIDS and Viral Hepatitis Infection at UNIRIO, as well as a professor at the Veiga de Almeida-RJ University and at the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing-RJ. He has experience in the area of Literature, with emphasis on Documents of Cultural Memory, with four books published, and has a history of involvement in favour of social justice, education for citizenship and for the valorisation of life, and for of civil liberties.
He produced extensive legislation on the recognition of the citizenship of discriminated minorities, recognition of the rights of sex workers and of a new drug policy, and is the author of projects such as the regulation of marijuana in Brazil, egalitarian marriage and gender identity.
He was Vice-President of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry that investigated the sexual exploitation of children and adolescents, and was in the lead of the Foreign Parliamentary Commission that accompanies the investigations of the execution of the councilwoman Marielle Franco.