For more than six years Dr. Raquel Rolnik toured the world as Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing for the UN Human Rights Council, obtaining testimonials and observing the striking shift in the concept of housing […]
Clique aqui para Português The traditional media, which hold the largest audiences across media channels, differ from democratic forms of communication because they are beholden to large corporations. Their social, moral and historic intentions are different. Political interests dominate when […]
Clique aqui para Português Last Wednesday at the National Park Library (Biblioteca Parque Nacional), social media and human rights activist Raull Santiago of Coletivo Papo Reto sat down with researcher Ana Paula Pellegrino of the violence […]
Clique aqui para Português On Monday February 22, police killed 19 year-old Igor Silva during an operation in the Parque União favela in Complexo da Maré in Rio’s North Zone. The same day a graphic […]
Clique aqui para Português On August 14 and 15, 2015, nearly 300 people gathered in the Utopia Warehouse (Armazém da Utopia) along the coast of Guanabara Bay in the Port region of Rio for a long-awaited conference […]