Outskirts and the homeless population are the subject of debate in a Decom project

The Periphery and the Homeless Population in the Context of Fica em Casa is the theme of the meeting of the project Dialogical Encounters: Lives and Voices that Matter, which takes place this Wednesday, 15th, from 4pm to 6pm, on the Google Meet platform. In total, there are ten opportunities to contribute to the process of confronting in-depth rights violations in the current scenario of the Covid-19 pandemic. Meetings are open to the general public.
For this edition, Rud Rafael, national coordinator of MTST Brasil; Daniel Valença, undergraduate and postgraduate professor of Law at UFERSA; and Sarah Fontenelle, PhD student in Media Studies (PPgEM/UFRN).
According to the project organizers, at each weekly meeting, from June to August, the dialogue will be with representatives of civil society and the justice system, about populations, communities, territories and groups in situations of vulnerability and hypervulnerability. “The focus of the discussions are the threats to health accompanied by the intensification of historical violence against their most basic human rights, such as the right to life, water, food, education, culture, accessibility, housing, land, work, freedom of expression and communication”.
The project, coordinated by professors and researchers Aline Lucena and Patrícia Paixão, consists of an extension action by the Department of Social Communication (Decom), integrated with the activities of the Latin American Observatory of Communication, Media and Human Rights (Amaru), the research group Epistemologies and Transformative Practices in Communication, Media and Culture (Ecomsul), the study group Subaltern Epistemologies in Communication (DesCom) and with the participation of students from Postgraduate Program in Media Studies (PPgEM).
This week, the event is in partnership with the LIBRAS Translation and Interpretation Services Committee of the Secretariat for Inclusion and Accessibility – SIA / UFRN. This action aims to contribute to the process of confronting inequalities and discrimination that have increased in the current scenario of the Covid-19 pandemic.