Clique aqui para Português Initiative: The Association of Assertive Women with Social Commitment (AMAC) Contact: Facebook | Twitter | Email Year Founded: 2012 Community: São Bento, Duque de Caxias (Baixada Fluminense) Mission: Empowering women, especially those who […]
Clique aqui para Português On April 29, 2018, O Globo newspaper reported the burial of five victims of the massacre in Vila Operária, Duque Caxias, in Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Baixada Fluminense on the northern outskirts of […]
Clique aqui para Português In 1991, then-president Fernando Collor de Mello sent Brazil’s federal Congress a proposition of what would later become the country’s national waste management policy. The idea was to present that policy at the […]
Clique aqui para Português On the night of March 16, twelve-year-old Kauan Noslinde Pimenta Peixoto died after being shot during a Military Police intervention in the community of Chatuba, located in the municipality of Mesquita in Greater […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Isaías Dalle of the Perseu Abramo Foundation published by Revista Fórum click here. Thainã de Medeiros, a member of Coletivo Papo Reto—a favela-based media collective fighting […]