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  • [ June 1, 2026 ] Visiting Rio Before July 30th? Don’t Miss ‘Favela Climate Memory’ Exhibition at the Favela Museum Overlooking Ipanema: ‘We Learned to Survive So We Can Tell Others How’ by Community Contributors
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Complex and Intelligent, the Favela Has Its Own Geography

By Preto Zezé • Translation by Staff • May 15, 2026

Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Preto Zezé published in O Globo, click here.  In the year Milton Santos would have turned 100, perhaps the best tribute to the Bahian geographer is not […]

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Meet the CIEPs: In Rio de Janeiro, An Ahead-of-Its-Time Education Policy Turns 40 Having Resisted Decades of Dismantling

By Fabio Leon • Translation by Juliet Hussell • February 28, 2026

Clique aqui para Português 2025 marked four decades since the founding of the Integrated Centers for Public Education (CIEPs), which were created to revolutionize public education policy in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Criticized […]

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Documentary on ‘Researching and Monitoring Water and Energy Justice in the Favelas’ Course Now With English Subtitles [VIDEO]

By Kayo Moura • Translation by Staff • July 30, 2023

Clique aqui para Português The “Monitoring Water and Energy Justice in the Favelas” research course was initially conceived in late 2020 by favela collectives involved in the Covid-19 in Favelas Unified Dashboard (PUF). The dozens […]

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Water and Energy Justice in Mesquita Favelas: Sustainable Favela Network Launches Data from Jacutinga, Coreia and Cosmorama

By Janaina Tavares • Translation by Ezra Spira-Cohen • May 15, 2023

Clique aqui para Português On World Water Day, March 22, the Sustainable Favela Network (SFN), Favelas Unified Dashboard (PUF),* Grassroots Social Education in Solidarity Economy Nucleus (NESPES), Edson Passos Women’s Association (AMEPA), and the Fusion Social Center […]

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Hip Hop Promotes Changes to Public Education in Greater Rio, Part 1

By Fabio Leon • Translation by Isaac Goodwin • February 21, 2023

Clique aqui para Português This is the first half of a two-part special report whose topic was selected by the Brazilian Association of Education Journalists (Jeduca) in partnership with Itaú Social as part of the […]

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