Clique aqui para Português For 12 years, Dona Rita Maria Barbosa, 56, kept an organic garden supplying her local community in Colônia Juliano Moreira (in Jacarepaguá, West Zone) with fresh fruit and vegetables and teaching […]
Clique aqui para Português “I’ve not been respected at all,” exclaimed Providência resident Neuzimar in Monday’s court hearing with the State Public Defender’s office, Public Ministry, representatives from the City government and the Providência community’s residents […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Raquel Rolnik, Special Rapporteur to the UN on Adequate Housing, in Portuguese click here. On Wednesday, August 16, 2012, residents of the community of Vila Autodromo, in Rio […]
Clique aqui para Português Since October 2009 when Rio was selected to host the 2016 Olympics, more than 8,000 people have been evicted from their homes. Tens of thousands more are expected. Forced eviction should not […]
Clique aqui para Português For original article in Portuguese in published in G1 click here. One protester said “there are a series of human rights abuses.” Asked by G1, the City’s press office has yet […]