Cilene Victor is a journalist who has worked as special correspondent in several countries, covering humanitarian issues and Climate Conferences in Paris, Marrakesh, Bonn, and Katowice. She is a Full Professor in the Graduate Programs in Communication and Religious Studies at the Methodist University of São Paulo, where she leads the research group Humanitarian Journalism and Media Interventions (HumanizaCom). She also teaches at FGV LAW, is a co-founder of the Global South Perspectives Network and a researcher with the Climate Disaster Project (University of Victoria, Canada).
As special correspondents for two different Brazilian TV networks, Cultura and Gazeta, we covered four Conferences of the Parties (COPs) between 2015 and 2018 under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). In Paris, Marrakesh, Bonn, and Katowice, we observed how each opening speech served as a compass for environmental diplomacy during those…
In this article, we analyze whether the media has been facilitating or hindering public engagement with global governance reform efforts. By scrutinizing media roles, we aim to understand their contributions to the discourse on UN reform, considering their reach, influence, and implications in shaping public opinion. The media section of the September 2023 report of…
As I am writing this article, someone is being infected by the novel coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2) around the world and the statistics of the pandemic are updated and disseminated by some online platforms, such as the Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases, created by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. And in…
