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‘It’s a Right! Without Water, We’ll Die’: World Water Day Protest Demands the Right to Water in the Favelas of Greater Rio

By Amanda Baroni Lopes • Translation by Aaron Scott • March 27, 2025

Clique aqui para Português On March 20, just days before World Water Day, popular movements and members of civil society gathered in front of private water utility Águas do Rio to demand the right to […]

#ParticipationWatch

In Wealthy Leblon, Seminar Centers Demands of Rio Favelas

By Amanda Baroni Lopes • Translation by Staff • February 10, 2025

Clique aqui para Português On January 30, the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Federation of Favelas (FAF-RIO), in partnership with Instituto 12, Ọ̀yọ́ Cultural, and Cetbras, held the first edition of the FAF-RIO seminar entitled “Dialogues […]

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Launch of the Salgueiro Quilombo Social Museum Recovers the Ancestral History of One of Rio de Janeiro’s Oldest Favelas

By Bárbara Dias • Translation by Kay Alvito • January 31, 2025

Clique aqui para Português On January 18, 2025, Morro do Salgueiro, one of Rio de Janeiro’s oldest favelas and a true urban quilombo [territories of Afro-Brazilian resistance that date back to slavery], located in the […]

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Rio de Janeiro’s Second Largest Favela, Rio das Pedras, Claims Space at the Center of Favela History Through ‘Territories of Memory’ Event

By Wellington Melo • Translation by Hannah McKenzie • December 12, 2024

Clique aqui para Português On November 23, community news outlet Lume Agency held an in-depth event on memory at the CAIC Euclides da Cunha secondary school in Rio das Pedras, Rio de Janeiro’s second largest […]

*Highlight

Marielle Franco’s Assassins Convicted: ‘Justice is Slow, Blind, Stupid, Unfair, Wrong, and Crooked. But It Always Comes,’ Says Judge

By Alexandre Cerqueira • Translation by Sylvia Schiller • December 2, 2024

Clique aqui para Português On October 30 and 31, after over six years of waiting, the trial of the killers of councilwoman and human rights defender Marielle Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes finally took […]

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