Last Tuesday November 19, an interview with Rio State Security secretary, José Mariano Beltrame, was published in which he claimed that Rio may have to lose a generation before the situation of violence in Rio’s […]
For the original by Thamyra Thamara and Thiago Ansel in Portuguese for Observatório de Favelas click here. Racial discrimination is a common theme both in TV dramas and news, which portray occasional attacks or conflicts in […]
On Friday November 8, the Hotel e Spa da Loucura (Hotel and Spa of Madness) at the Nise da Silveira psychiatric and rehabilitation center hosted AFROntamento, an event in celebration of Brazilian Black Awareness Month. […]
Clique aqui para Português On October 1, Brazil celebrated the 10th anniversary of the passage of its Statute of the Elderly, a landmark piece of legislation that consolidates basic rights for Brazilian citizens over the […]
“The solution to your problems does not come from the outside!” André Constantine proclaimed before a group of residents at a meeting in Complexo do Caju on Sunday, October 6. “We are here, also ‘favelados,’ […]