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Broken Connection Part 3: Right to the Internet and Internet for Rights

By data_labe, Escola de Jornalismo Énois • Translation by Desirée Poets • February 7, 2018

Clique aqui para Português This is the third article in a four-part series on Internet access in favelas and urban peripheries in Brazil. Don’t miss parts one and two. For the entire original article in Portuguese […]

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How Many and Which Favelas Will Receive Promised Social Projects in Rio?

By Michel Silva • Translation by Jiselle Steele • January 29, 2018

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Michel Silva published by Favela em Pauta click here.  Brazil’s Defence Minister, Raul Jungmann, announced in July 2017 that favelas in Rio de Janeiro would […]

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Broken Connection Part 1: When There Is No Internet Access

By data_labe, Escola de Jornalismo Énois • Translation by Desirée Poets • January 22, 2018

Clique aqui para Português This is the first article in a four-part series on Internet access in favelas and urban peripheries in Brazil. For the entire original article in Portuguese by Escola de Jornalismo Énois and data_labe published […]

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Passes, Fails, and Dropouts at a Public School in Manguinhos [INTERVIEW]

By Edilano Cavalcante • Translation by Cheyne Bull • January 10, 2018

Clique aqui para Português The end and beginning of a new year, besides being a time for festivities, is also the moment in which many mothers and fathers in Brazil pay the most attention to […]

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Catholic Church in Baixada Fluminense Discusses Drug Decriminalization

By Fabio Leon • Translation by Desirée Poets • December 21, 2017

Clique aqui para Português Some people think Catholicism is retrograde and refuses to talk about the complexities of contemporary society. However, two initiatives stemming from social movements linked to the Catholic Church in the Baixada Fluminense region, […]

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