Clique aqui para Português This article is part of RioOnWatch’s #VoicesFromSocialMedia series, which compiles perspectives posted on social media by favela residents and activists about events and societal themes that arise. Activists began their protest […]
Clique aqui para Português Launched in 2009 in the lead up to the 2016 Olympic Games, Porto Maravilha (Marvelous Port) is the largest urban redevelopment program in recent decades in Rio de Janeiro. Described as an […]
Clique aqui para Português On Wednesday, May 8, the seminar “State Violence: The Resistance and Re-Existence of the Periphery” was held at the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) as part of a […]
Clique aqui para Português On October 28th, Brazil elected its next president, far-right nationalist Jair Bolsonaro of the Social Liberal Party (PSL), in a decisive victory over Workers’ Party (PT) candidate Fernando Haddad. Remarkably, Bolsonaro forged his […]
Clique aqui para Português The World Social Forum (WSF) is a civil society initiative founded in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2001 as an alternative space to the World Economic Forum, in which global economic elites […]