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Sustainable Brazil ECCO Point #SustainableFavelaNetwork [PROFILE]

By Laura Bunn • July 24, 2018

Clique aqui para Português Initiative: Sustainable Brazil ECCO Point (ECCO Ponto Brasil Sustentável) Contact: Facebook | Website | Email Year Founded: 1999 Community: Headquarters in Honório Gurgel, North Zone, with activities in neighborhoods around metropolitan Rio Mission: To contribute […]

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Teenager from Penha, 2018 Street Child World Cup Champion, Shares Impressions from Moscow

By Ana Clara Ferreira da Silva • Translation by Melinda Gurr • July 15, 2018

Clique aqui para Português The 2018 World Cup in Russia is coming to an end, but 15-year-old Ana Clara Ferreira da Silva and her friends from Penha, in Rio’s North Zone, have already won the championship […]

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‘Black July’ Organizers Unite Against Racism, Militarization in Latin America, Africa, Middle East

By Paula Peña • June 25, 2018

Clique aqui para Português It’s 3pm on a cloudy Saturday and, as more people file through the entrance of Instituto Raízes em Movimento (Roots in Movement Institute) in Complexo do Alemão, what initially seemed like a […]

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Campaign Calls on UNESCO to Recognize Favelas as World Heritage [VIDEO]

By Luisa Fenizola • Translation by Cerianne Robertson • June 23, 2018

Clique aqui para Português The Chilean non-governmental organization committed to improving housing in informal settlements, TECHO, is today active in 19 countries across Latin America. In Brazil, where it is known as TETO, the NGO works […]

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‘Careful with Neguin’: The Political Art of a Black Favela Body in the City [VIDEO]

By Priscilla Mayrink • Translation by Jiselle Steele • June 14, 2018

Clique aqui para Português It was June 2014, the Brazil-Cameroon World Cup game was on in a restaurant in upscale Gávea in Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone. Kelson Succi, a black resident of Complexo do […]

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