Clique aqui para Português This is Part 1 in a five-part series documenting Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) Installations. Rio de Janeiro’s Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) program was initiated in late 2008; today units have been installed in 38 […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the latest contribution to our media watchdog series on the Best and Worst International Reporting on Rio’s favelas, part of RioOnWatch’s ongoing conversation on the media narrative and media portrayal surrounding favelas. 2014 was an […]
Clique aqui para Português The role of the international media and observers in bringing visibility to injustice and abuse in Rio de Janeiro has become of paramount importance in recent years with the city hosting […]
Clique aqui para Português Hundreds of residents from Vila União de Curicica filled the local Parque União de Curicica samba school on the night of Monday December 22 to learn of the proposed change to […]
For the original by Fransérgio Goulart in Portuguese, published in Viva Favela, click here. Residents have to jump over the wall to reach the swimming pool In 2008, the teenager Cristiano Pereira Tavares, then aged 13, […]