Question: what do you get when you cross a rapper-activist with a scuba-diving NGO worker, and throw in a very famous former President for good measure? Answer: TEDxMaré (and that is just scratching the surface). […]
For the original article by Artur Voltolini in Portuguese in Observatório de Favelas click here. How the logic of war applied by the State in popular areas leaves the rights of children to learn and […]
For original article by Júlia Dias Carneiro in Portuguese on BBC Brasil click here. After a week of meetings in Brazil, the Secretary General of Amnesty Internacional, Salil Shetty, demanded an end to police impunity […]
Mário Lucas, 18, was brutally murdered by two plainclothes police officers in his own home in Morro da Fazendinha, in Complexo do Alemão on the morning of November 26, 2012. Two days later, a curfew […]
Clique aqui para Português If hills could speak, Morro do Tuiuti (Tuiuti Hill) would have a lot to say. It has borne witness to many of Rio de Janeiro’s key physical and social transformations over […]