Clique aqui para Português Today, March 8, in celebration of International Women´s Day, we celebrate some of the many warrior women of Vila Autódromo who have been battling against the City for more than five years to save […]
For more than six years Dr. Raquel Rolnik toured the world as Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing for the UN Human Rights Council, obtaining testimonials and observing the striking shift in the concept of housing […]
For decades, media coverage of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas characterized these neighborhoods as peripheral and violent, documenting organized crime, armed robberies and homicides as somehow inherent to the informal city. As misconceptions of the nature […]
Clique aqui para Português Around 250 people gathered in Vila Autódromo on Saturday, February 27, for the official launch of the updated award-winning Vila Autódromo People’s Plan, designed by Vila Autódromo residents with technical assistance […]
Clique aqui para Português Last Wednesday at the National Park Library (Biblioteca Parque Nacional), social media and human rights activist Raull Santiago of Coletivo Papo Reto sat down with researcher Ana Paula Pellegrino of the violence […]