Clique aqui para Português Friday, July 27 marked the final day of the third annual Julho Negro (“Black July”). This year’s event sought to bridge international struggles against human rights violations, building on the solidarity […]
Clique aqui para Português Last Friday morning, July 27, activists and audience members filed into the National School of Law at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) in downtown Rio for the final […]
Clique aqui para Português On Tuesday, July 17, five families received a federal eviction order in Rádio Sonda, a community of 103 families located near Rio’s International Airport on Ilha do Governador in the North Zone. Military authorities proceeded to enter […]
Clique aqui para Português Twenty-five years ago, a great tragedy bloodily marked the history of Rio de Janeiro. In remembrance, dozens of human rights groups gathered on Monday, July 23 at the Nossa Senhora da […]
Clique aqui para Português As of 2015, the City of Rio’s own data showed that 22,059 families (an estimated 77,000 individuals) across the city had been evicted from their homes since 2009, whether in the […]