{"id":15488,"date":"2019-01-09T18:39:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T18:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/?post_type=noticia&p=15488"},"modified":"2021-04-05T20:11:17","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T20:11:17","slug":"race-and-human-rights-is-the-theme-of-the-latest-edition-of-the-sur-journal","status":"publish","type":"noticia","link":"https:\/\/conectas.org\/en\/noticias\/race-and-human-rights-is-the-theme-of-the-latest-edition-of-the-sur-journal\/","title":"\u201cRace and Human Rights\u201d is the theme of the latest editionof the Sur Journal","content":"

For the first time in its 14 years, the Sur Journal, a bi-annual international publication on human rights edited by Conectas, is publishing an edition on the theme of racism, bringing together some of the principal voices on the anti-racism cause, from Brazil and around the world.<\/p>\n

Under the title \u201cRace and Human Rights: Moving Structures\u201d, Sur 28 has 17 articles, written by 23 authors from six countries, among them the UN Special Rapporteur writing about contemporary forms of racism, E. Tendayi Achiume and the researchers Juliana Borges, Thula Pires and Nath\u00e1lia Oliveira.<\/p>\n

Sueli Carneiro is the guest editor on this edition. She is the founder and current Director of Geled\u00e9s \u2013 Black Woman Institute and advisor to Conectas. Sueli is one of the principal activists for black feminism in the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cSur is perhaps the most important human rights journal in the world. It is encouraging, at this time, that this edition is committed to contributing substantially to the theme of racism and human rights in Brazil, including content from academia, philanthropy and activism and offering a wide-ranging panorama of the seriousness and gravity of the issue of race in Brazil and around the world.\u201d Sueli explained.<\/p>\n

A highlight of this edition is the mini documentary \u201cLuto para n\u00f3s \u00e9 verbo\u201d, produced by the filmmaker Natasha N\u00e9ri, author of the award-winning \u201cAuto de Resist\u00eancia\u201d. The film shows accounts of the mothers and families of young victims of police violence, among them Bruna Silva, mother of Marcos Vin\u00edcius, a 14 year old boy killed during a police operation in the Mar\u00e9 favela<\/em> complex, in Rio de Janeiro, in June 2018.<\/p>\n

As well as the video, the journal has a selection of 18 works from the exhibition \u201cAfro-Atlantic Histories\u201d. The curators were H\u00e9lio Menezes and Lilia Schwarcz and it was considered to be the world\u2019s best exhibition in 2018 by The New York Times newspaper. The exhibition, that was open until last October, in S\u00e3o Paulo, brought together a selection of 450 works by 214 artists from the 16th<\/sup> to the 21st<\/sup> century and was held jointly by MASP (S\u00e3o Paulo Museum of Art) and the Tomie Ohtake Institute.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo do justice to the complexity and urgency of today\u2019s fight against racism, this edition of Sur aims to serve as a space for voices pursuing ways to reposition race at the centre of the human rights agenda.\u201d The words of the Executive Editors of the journal, Thiago Amparo and Maryuri Grisales.<\/p>\n

For the first time the journal offered three writing fellowships to authors, with a view to encouraging and supporting activists and researchers in writing about their experiences and\/or research in racism and human rights in Brazil. Each person who received a fellowship was given a grant for three months, equivalent to that of a post-graduate in Brazil, from October to December 2018. They also received mentoring while producing their texts.<\/p>\n