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  • [ December 23, 2025 ] Rio de Janeiro Designs First Plan for Social Interest Housing: Popular Council Launches Campaign to Ensure Plan Addresses Real Needs #GentrificationWatch
  • [ December 15, 2025 ] ‘To Lose Your Memory Is to Lose Your Essence’: Vidigal Celebrates Its 85th Anniversary With Cultural Event Inspired by the ‘Favela Climate Memory’ Project *Highlight
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  • [ December 10, 2025 ] Youth at the Center of Climate Decisions: During COP30, Children’s Summit Highlights ‘It’s Children Who Feel It Most!’ *Highlight
  • [ December 5, 2025 ] ‘Favela-based Media Are a Pillar of Democracy’: In Rocinha, Climate Justice Takes Center Stage at the 3rd Conference on Favela and Peripheral Journalism #MediaWatch
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Love Is Politics and Technology in the Fight Against Climate Change

By Gisele Moura • Translation by Kay Alvito • March 8, 2023

Clique aqui para Português Year after year, over the course of more than a decade dedicated to studying the environment, I’ve seen what was not so long ago an issue of the future, become increasingly […]

*Highlight

Maré Residents Literally In the Dark Amidst Violent Police Operations

By Juliana Pinho • Translation by Felix Foot • March 7, 2023

Clique aqui para Português Over two days last week, the favelas of Maré in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, suffered police operations carried out in at least 13 of the 16 communities which […]

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‘Constitution’ Play Makes Democracy More Accessible in Japeri

By Fabio Leon • Translation by Ujwala Murthy • March 3, 2023

Clique aqui para Português On October 22, 2022, performing arts group Grupo Código in Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Japeri municipality held its second performance of the play Constitution. The show explores the complex dispute over […]

by Community Contributors

Film Time: Favela Collectives Host Movie Club for Children in the Community of Primavera to Explore Racial and Gender Justice

By Vinícius Ribeiro • Translation by Yasmin Quaife • March 1, 2023

Clique aqui para Português The third and latest edition of the Film Time project (A Hora do Cine) was held on Saturday, January 28, in Cavalcanti in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone. The event was […]

#ParticipationWatch

Mostra Noix: First Art Exhibition in Honório Gurgel in Rio’s North Zone Demonstrates the Urgent Need for Public Arts in the Peripheries

By Felipe Migliani • Translation by Ujwala Murthy • February 28, 2023

Clique aqui para Português In November 2022, a group of eight women residents of Rio’s favelas, suburbs, and peripheries put on Mostra Noix, the first fine art exhibition in the history of Honório Gurgel, a […]

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