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  • [ December 26, 2025 ] 2025 Retrospective of Top International Reporting on Rio’s Favelas #MediaWatch
  • [ December 24, 2025 ] ‘No One in Terra Firme Will Sleep Hungry Today!’ Amid Adversity, Belém Favela Initiatives Distribute 2,200 Meals During COP30 With Support from the People’s Summit Solidarity Kitchen *Highlight
  • [ December 23, 2025 ] Rio de Janeiro Designs First Plan for Social Interest Housing: Popular Council Launches Campaign to Ensure Plan Addresses Real Needs #GentrificationWatch
  • [ December 22, 2025 ] ‘We’re Planting the Future’: Reforestation Collective Action in Salgueiro Recovers Land Prone to Fires and Landslides with Native Atlantic Forest Fruit Trees *Highlight
  • [ December 15, 2025 ] ‘To Lose Your Memory Is to Lose Your Essence’: Vidigal Celebrates Its 85th Anniversary With Cultural Event Inspired by the ‘Favela Climate Memory’ Project *Highlight

#EvictionsWatch

Armed Forces Violently Evict Six Families in Maracajás Favela, Defying Numerous Laws [VIDEO]

By Tyler Strobl • November 26, 2018

Clique aqui para Português On Tuesday, November 13, national, state, and municipal forces undertook the first forced eviction in Rio de Janeiro since the pre-Olympic Games era—when Mayor Eduardo Paes oversaw the removal of tens […]

*Highlight

Want to Do Something About Fake News? Accept New Narratives and Aesthetics on Your Timeline

By Thainã de Medeiros • Translation by Cheyne Bull • November 24, 2018

Clique aqui para Português This text was originally published by Thainã de Medeiros on his Facebook profile. You guys are really cool and smart and all that… but I have good reason to suspect that most of you […]

#MarielleLegacy

Building Bridges Between Favelas in Kenya and Brazil Through ‘Artivism’ #MarielleLegacy [VIDEO]

By Chloe Villalobos • November 22, 2018

Clique aqui para Português On Saturday, November 10, the Maré Museum inaugurated an exhibition titled “Portraits of Marielle: Creating Bridges between Kenya and Brazil” made by Kenyan artist-activists, popularly known as “artivists” in Nairobi, in […]

#HousingWatch

MTST Occupies Elite Beach in Rio de Janeiro To Claim Rights and Celebrate Black Lives [IMAGES]

By Antoine Horenbeek • November 20, 2018

Clique aqui para Português Landless Workers’ Movement (MTST) and Popular Brigades (BP) celebrated Black Awareness Month by occupying one of the most elite beaches in Rio de Janeiro. For the 5th time, Afro-Brazilians from the MTST and […]

#MarielleLegacy

Marielle Franco’s Master’s Thesis Released on 8-Month Anniversary of Assassination

By Jorge Sanchez Garcia • November 20, 2018

Clique aqui para Português “Brazil, the time has come to hear the Marias, Mahins, Marielles, Malês,” goes the 2019 Carnival theme song of one of Rio de Janeiro’s most famous samba schools, Mangueira. The line is a […]

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In May 2010, Catalytic Communities launched what was originally Rio Olympics Neighborhood Watch (hence RioOnWatch), a program to bring visibility to favela community voices in the lead-up to the 2016 Rio Olympics. This news site, RioOnWatch.org, grew into a much-needed and unique reference featuring favela perspectives on the urban transformation of Rio. With diverse and deeply interlinked articles by a mix of community reporters, resident opinions, solidarity reporters, international observers, and academic researchers, we work to engender a more accurate picture of favelas, their contributions to the city, and the potential of favela-led community development in Rio and around the world.

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