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Rio de Janeiro Designs First Plan for Social Interest Housing: Popular Council Launches Campaign to Ensure Plan Addresses Real Needs

By Felipe Litsek • Translation by Staff • December 23, 2025

Clique aqui para Português For the first time in its history, Rio de Janeiro is drafting a Municipal Plan for Social Interest Housing (PMHIS, by its Portuguese acronym). In November, as the PMHIS entered its […]

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‘Human Beings Forget That They Are Nature’: Favelas Teach the Path to the Future at the 2nd Favela Sustainability Festival

By Manuela David • Translation by Louisa Morrison • November 13, 2025

Clique aqui para Português This is the second of two articles complementing official coverage of the 2nd Sustainable Favela Festival. Click here for part one. During the countdown to COP30 in Belém, the climate conference […]

Civil Society

Food Sovereignty and Culinary Heritage Connect with Fight for Climate Justice at the 2nd Sustainable Favela Festival

By Joana Stewart • Translation by Marina Devine Guzmán • November 12, 2025

Clique aqui para Português This is the first of two articles complementing official coverage of the 2nd Sustainable Favela Festival. Click here for part two. Organized by the Sustainable Favela Network (SFN)*, the 2nd Sustainable […]

#EvictionsWatch

Victory Against Eviction! 200 Year-Old Horto Community Wins Battle to Stay After 40 Years of Resistance

By Felipe Litsek • Translation by Staff • November 8, 2025

Clique aqui para Português October 13, 2025 will go down in the history of Horto, in Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone, as the day when the community signed a historic agreement that ends the threat […]

According to one of the recent poll, 87% of Rio's favelas residents supposedly support the police operation that led to the deadliest massacre in Rio de Janeiro's History. Nevertheless, nation-wide favela-led post-massacre protests have shown otherwise. The sign reads 'Resident, Not a Criminal.' Photo: Vinícius Ribeiro
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Why the Pre-Electoral Opinion Polling Published Following Rio de Janeiro’s ‘Mega Police Operation’ Is Misleading

By Scott Salmon • November 7, 2025

Clique aqui para Português On Tuesday, October 28, Brazil’s deadliest police operation resulted in over 120 people dead, leaving bodies behind wherever they fell, strewn for neighbors and families to retrieve, in the Alemão and […]

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