Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Leonardo Coelho published in Ponte Jornalismo click here. The teen João Pedro Matos Pinto, 14 years old, was killed with a shot to the […]
Clique aqui para Português May 15, Complexo do Alemão, Rio de Janeiro. Residents manually carried the five corpses, down the alleyways to the entrance of the favela of Nova Brasilia. Laid out on cardboard and […]
Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on the new coronavirus as it impacts Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. For a full two weeks, the global Covid-19 pandemic seemed enough to curb police violence […]
Clique aqui para Português This article is part of RioOnWatch’s ongoing reporting on social struggles around the world that dialogue with the local reality in Rio de Janeiro and offer important points of international comparison. […]
Clique aqui para Português The 16 favelas that make up Complexo da Maré, in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone, registered 49 deaths resulting from armed violence in 2019, more than double the rate of 2018. […]