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Covid-19: City of Rio Presents Higher Case Fatality Rate Than Brazil and World

By PH de Noronha • Translation by Julio Santos Filho • September 8, 2020

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on Covid-19 and its impacts on the favelas. Click here for the original article published in Portuguese, by PH de Noronha on the site of Brazil’s national […]

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Coronavirus: If It Were a Country, Rio Would Have the World’s Second-Highest Mortality Rate

By Lucas Altino • Translation by Clau Guimarães • August 8, 2020

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on Covid-19 and its impacts on the favelas. For the original article in Portuguese by Lucas Altino published in O Globo, click here. On July 1, the […]

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Pandemic Undermines Education, Worsening Inequality for Students from Rio’s Urban Periphery

By Jaqueline Suarez • Translation by Cheyne Bull • June 13, 2020

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on the new coronavirus as it impacts Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. The new coronavirus pandemic has made the inequality gap that exists in the daily life […]

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From Diaspora to Chaise: Black Psychology Collective in Rio’s Baixada Fights Prejudices of Racism

By Fabio Leon • Translation by Sharonya Vadakattu • October 30, 2019

Clique aqui para Português When we think about the processes of “invisibilization” affecting the black population of Brazil, some aspects become more evident once we view racism as a key actor in these historic processes. […]

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14th Anniversary of the Baixada Massacre: Local Organizations Plan a Week of Remembrance

By Fabio Leon • Translation by Ava Hoffman • March 27, 2019

Clique aqui para Português On the night of March 16, twelve-year-old Kauan Noslinde Pimenta Peixoto died after being shot during a Military Police intervention in the community of Chatuba, located in the municipality of Mesquita in Greater […]

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