Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese published in Observatório de Favelas click here. The People’s Summit, a side event of Rio+20, is also happening in Rio’s favelas. This Saturday, June 16th in […]
Clique aqui para Português A night of occupation On the eve of World Habitat Day, October 1, 2007, organizers from the National Movement of Housing Vindication (Movimento Nacional de Luta pela Moradia—MNLM) gathered 126 people on […]
Clique aqui para Português Parque Vivo (Living Park) is a project that works with children, youth and the elderly in Parque da Cidade, a small, relatively unknown but well-developed and well-located favela in Gávea, offering […]
Seated in what was a widely used community movie theater, Bernadete Soares Pereira gestures toward a headless socket on the wall. She took down the projector and related furniture and devices in order to safeguard […]
Original Portuguese article published in Observatório de Favelas. On Friday September 30th, the NGO REDES de Desenvolvimento da Maré (Development Networks for Maré), in partnership with ActionAid and Observatório de Favelas (Favelas Observatory), set up the seminar […]