Clique aqui para Português As night fell on Wednesday, September 13, residents of the Horto community in Rio’s South Zone met at an urgent meeting to discuss new circumstances in their ongoing fight against eviction. Community leaders from […]
Clique aqui para Português While Rio’s oldest favela, Providência, marks 120 years since its founding, the city has been undergoing a broader moment of historical reckoning, considering how best to utilize the past in order to […]
Clique aqui para Português In light of the increasing tensions in Rio de Janeiro favelas such as Complexo da Maré, Jacarezinho, and Complexo do Alemão, Brazilian and global media are increasingly describing the city’s situation […]
Clique aqui para Português Many of the crimes that brought Maria do Nascimento to a bare conference room on the sixth floor of Rio de Janeiro’s Federal Ministry in August happened more than one hundred years […]
Clique aqui para Português “You made a terrible mistake. We will relentlessly get rid of you; I am not afraid of using these words. I’m not scared of human rights. It’s not going to stop. […]