Clique aqui para Português Celebrating literature from Rio de Janeiro’s favela communities, the annual Literary Festival of the Urban Periphery, or FLUPP, returned for its fifth edition this month. This year’s event took place from November […]
Clique aqui para Português Horto is a favela community in the South Zone of Rio de Janeiro that has existed for over 200 years. The community, which was founded by former Botanical Gardens workers who […]
Clique aqui para Português “You aren’t from the favela. You’re from the world,” Iara Oliveira, founder of the Alfazendo NGO, tells her students. Alfazendo is an educational NGO based in the City of God favela in Rio […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the second in a series of three articles summarizing reports on Brazilian housing law, organized by the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice at request of Catalytic Communities. The second report, […]
Clique aqui para Português The current challenges of democracy aren’t the same as those of 20 or 30 years ago and they won’t be the same as those of tomorrow. They are not the same […]