For the original in French by Jane Zhang on Greenetvert click here. As the world’s governments gathered to discuss sustainable development at the Rio+20 conference last year, vast heavy metal pollution from a steel plant […]
Clique aqui para Português As the rain started to pour on Tuesday evening, May 28th, around 80 residents from the Horto community protested at the gates of Rio’s Jardim Botânico (Botanical Gardens) where the opening […]
For the past five years, Irenaldo Honório da Silva, president of the Pica-Pau Residents’ Association, has helped to organize his community in Rio’s North Zone for a day of entertainment in partnership with social and […]
For the original article by Claudia Antunes in Portuguese published in Piauí click here (subscribers only). An account of the residents’ movement in Rio de Janeiro’s first favela in an era of sporting mega-events and political […]
At around 11am on Wednesday May 15th, Maria de Conceição, 57, was taking a shower in her wood and corrugated iron home in the Bandeira 1 favela in Del Castilho, North Zone, when she heard […]