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No Power Is Authentic When It Is Based on Exclusion and Silencing: Gender-Based Political Violence Against Black Women in Brazil [OPINION]

By Ana Tobossi • Translation by Hannah McKenzie • August 4, 2026

Clique aqui para Português This article is part of a series on the 2026 Brazilian elections, focusing on the perspectives of Greater Rio’s favelas. Brazilian democracy still suffers from deep-seated forms of exclusion that limit the […]

#GentrificationWatch

Addressing False Claims After Community Land Trust Bill Rejected by Rio de Janeiro City Council

By Favela-CLT Project • Translation by Staff • July 31, 2026

Clique aqui para Português The bill received 23 votes in favor but needed 26 to pass. Coordinated efforts by right-wing city council members, coupled with the spread of false claims about Community Land Trusts, proved […]

#UPPWatch

Rio de Janeiro’s ‘Milícias’—Vigilante, Off-Duty Police Gangs—Are Not a Parallel Power: They Are the State at Work [BOOK REVIEW]

By Julio Santos Filho • Translation by Sia Kulkarni • July 13, 2026

Clique aqui para Português This article is part of a series on the 2026 Brazilian elections, focusing on the perspectives of Greater Rio’s favelas. In the book Como Nasce um Miliciano? (How Is a Militiaman […]

#ParticipationWatch

‘International Favelas Conference’ Promotes a (dis)Integrated City: From Erasing Favela Residents to Global Marketing [OPINION]

By Charlie Gomes • Translation by Kay Alvito • April 2, 2026

Clique aqui para Português Preface: Public Policies Without Active Listening Don’t Bring Change The “International Favelas Conference,” which took place on March 17 and 18, organized by the Brazilian Institute of Architects’ Rio de Janeiro […]

#MarielleLegacy

Eight Years Without Marielle: Marielle Franco Case Revives Faith in Punishing the Guilty [OPINION]

By Flávia Oliveira • Translation by Staff • March 13, 2026

Clique aqui para Português City councillor Marielle Franco and her driver Anderson Gomes were fatally shot eight years ago, on March 14, 2018, in Estácio, Rio de Janeiro, following one of hundreds, if not thousands […]

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