You don’t respect me as a citizen with full rights. I don’t respect your initiatives, and laws which I didn’t participate in creating. Favelas are the greatest proof that we can progress free of what […]
Clique aqui para Português The injunction that froze the Morar Carioca construction projects in Providência (the site of an intense battle over forced evictions on the site of Rio’s first, and most historic, favela) was […]
For the original in Portuguese on Pela Moradia click here. It was yet another mobilization that secured at least temporary victory and relief for the families of the Quilombo das Guerreiras (Women Warriors’ Quilombo) Occupation. […]
For the original article by Artur Voltolini in Portuguese for Observatório de Favelas, click here. Data collected by sociologist Michel Misse, in partnership with the Brazilian Bar Association of Rio de Janeiro (OAB/RJ), show the unreasonable […]
For the original in Portuguese in O Dia, click here. See our December 2010 video documenting the eviction of the communities cited in this article. The Popular Committee and the Human Rights Commission hear from […]