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The Death of UPP Social: Failing to Make Participation Work

By Ed Bentsi-Enchill, Jessica Goodenough, Michel Berger • March 30, 2015

Clique aqui para Português On July 23rd of last year, Eduarda La Rocque, president of the IPP–Instituto Pereira Passos, Rio’s city planning agency–was invited by the NGO Move Rio to give a talk on “The […]

#EvictionsWatch

Mayor Announces Eminent Domain in Vila Autódromo as MIT Report Criticizes City Policy

By Brooke Parkin • March 25, 2015

Clique aqui para Português On Friday March 20 the city of Rio de Janeiro marked 58 families for eviction from their homes in Vila Autódromo, a community that has been torn apart due to its location adjacent to the 2016 Olympic […]

#UPPWatch

Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) Installations Part 3: 2012

By Patrick Ashcroft • March 24, 2015

Clique aqui para Português This is Part 3 in a five-part series documenting Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) Installations. Head of the UPP, Frederico Caldas, admitted in an interview with BBC Brasil that the next phase of […]

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Rio’s Favelas Familiar With Water Shortages, Now Set to Affect All

By Lara Mancinelli • March 22, 2015

Clique aqui para Português Brazil, which holds 12% of the world’s fresh water supply, is in the midst of one of the most severe droughts in its history. Rio de Janeiro’s main water reserves are […]

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Maré’s Institutional Might: Strengthening Participatory Community Platforms to Advance Public Security and Social Justice

By Veriene Melo • March 20, 2015

Clique aqui para Português The Maré complex—a group of 16 communities of over 130,000 inhabitants and innumerable civil society organizations located in Rio’s North Zone—was the 39th favela in Rio de Janeiro to go through the […]

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