For the original in Portuguese with video, by Renan França, published in O Globo, click here. The number is double what was estimated: the results are based on a database created by Emory University, in Atlanta. Between […]
Clique aqui para Português This is Part 4 in a five-part series documenting Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) Installations. 2013 was a crucial year for the UPPs. In the first four years of the program, the media, […]
For the original in Portuguese, by Maria Eduarda Chagas, published in Estadão, click here. In the pre-Olympics period, 67,000 people were forced to leave their homes, more than were evicted under both Pereira Passos and Lacerda administrations–those most […]
Last week, hundreds of people in Complexo do Alemão marched to call for an end to violence in their community. The march followed 24 hours during which at least five people were shot dead, including 10-year-old Eduardo de Jesus Ferreira, shot […]
Clique aqui para Português On July 23rd of last year, Eduarda La Rocque, president of the IPP–Instituto Pereira Passos, Rio’s city planning agency–was invited by the NGO Move Rio to give a talk on “The […]