For decades, media coverage of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas characterized these neighborhoods as peripheral and violent, documenting organized crime, armed robberies and homicides as somehow inherent to the informal city. As misconceptions of the nature […]
Clique aqui para Português An annual report from Amnesty International on the global state of human rights released this week pointed to increasing levels of police brutality against civilians. The State of the World’s Human Rights […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Juliana Portella published in Viva Favela click here. City of God was the second community in Rio de Janeiro to receive a Pacifying Police Unit (UPP), in […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Betinho Casas Novas published in Voz das Comunidades click here. Like 2014, 2015 began violently, with people killed, shot, and injured. The hope that residents of Complexo […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese published by EBC Agência Brasil click here. On January 5 Amnesty International criticized the new nomenclature established by the Federal and Civil Police to substitute terms such as […]