Rio’s favela pacification policy–whereby specially trained Military Police occupy and then establish Pacifying Police Units (UPPs) to take territorial control over communities previously controlled by drug trafficking gangs or militia–has come under increasing scrutiny in […]
This post is a contribution to Blog Action Day 2013 in which bloggers around the world reflect on this year’s theme, Human Rights. For the original by Luiz Baltar, Ratão Diniz, Vitor Madeira and Naldinho Lourenço in Portuguese in Imagens […]
For the original by Davison Coutinho in Portuguese in Jornal do Brasil click here. A community abandoned by the public sector for decades, dominated by drug trafficking, under pressure and oppressed for a lifetime. Suddenly, the dream […]
You don’t respect me as a citizen with full rights. I don’t respect your initiatives, and laws which I didn’t participate in creating. Favelas are the greatest proof that we can progress free of what […]
For the original by Elenilce Bottari in Portuguese in O Globo click here. They have no doubt that “what they did to Bull was a great cruelty.” This is how residents, friends and family have described […]