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  • [ December 26, 2025 ] 2025 Retrospective of Top International Reporting on Rio’s Favelas #MediaWatch
  • [ 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
  • [ December 12, 2025 ] Brazil’s First National Meeting of Community Architecture Highlights Women’s Leadership and the Power of Self-Built Architecture in Achieving the Right to Housing and to the City #InterventionWatch

Freixo and his running mate Luciana Boiteux celebrate reaching the second round of the 2016 mayoral elections in Lapa. Photo credit: Mídia Ninja
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Marcelo Freixo, Socialist Candidate Running for Mayor of Rio de Janeiro [PROFILE]

By Ciara Long • October 25, 2016

Clique aqui para Português “I don’t want to take care of you. I want to govern with you!” said Marcelo Freixo recently, beaming to a cheering crowd at a rally supporting his candidacy in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone, […]

#ParticipationWatch

Marcelo Crivella, Evangelical Bishop Running for Mayor of Rio de Janeiro [PROFILE]

By Lisa Hollenbach • October 25, 2016

Clique aqui para Português Marcelo Crivella, 59, has a varied professional background. He’s been a taxi driver, evangelical bishop, minister of fisheries, gospel recording artist, senator, engineer, missionary in Africa and book author. Now he is in […]

*Highlight

A Good Bandit Is…? It’s Time to Demystify Human Rights

By Luisa Fenizola • Translation by Laura Fairman • October 24, 2016

Clique aqui para Português Human rights are universal civil, political, social, economic, and cultural rights, indivisible and inalienable. This means, simply, that they are valid for all, that under no circumstances can some be respected and […]

#EvictionsWatch

Bicentennial Horto Favela Doubles Down Resistance to Eviction as One Family Receives Notice

By Laura Bachmann • October 21, 2016

Clique aqui para Português Residents of the lush and peaceful Horto favela in the South Zone neighborhood of Jardim Botânico are organizing resistance efforts in response to a decision by the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU) authorizing […]

Favela Tourism

Secret Rio: Unique New Guidebook Showcases Rio’s Hidden Gems and Favela Attractions [BOOK REVIEW]

By Eli Nemzer • October 20, 2016

Clique aqui para Português The latest addition to a series of offbeat city guides by Jonglez Publishing, Secret Rio by Manoel de Almeida e Silva, Marcio Roiter and Thomas Jonglez offers a quirky and thorough look […]

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