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This Women’s Day, We Honor the Women Who Are Transforming Waste to Wonder in Rio Favelas

By Luisa Fenizola • Translation by Edmund Ruge • March 8, 2020

Clique aqui para Português This is the ninth article in a year-long partnership with the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at San Diego State University to produce a series of monthly favela-sourced human rights and environmental […]

#MarielleLegacy

‘Bless Yourself, It’ll Work Out’ Carnival Parade Through Maré Favelas Reaffirms Rights [IMAGES]

By Gabriel Loiola • Translation by Edmund Ruge • March 4, 2020

Clique aqui para Português On February 29, the carnival bloco “Bless Yourself, It’ll All Work Out” paraded through the streets of Complexo da Maré, in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone. The cloudy day did not […]

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From Rolês to Blocos: Touring Carnival in Rio’s First Favela

By Colin Andrew • February 21, 2020

Clique aqui para Português This article is part of RioOnWatch’s 2020 reporting partnership with The Rio Times focused on favela tourism. For the article as published in The Rio Times click here. With almost two million tourists […]

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2019 Report Shows Rising Armed Violence in Complexo da Maré, Continued State Impunity

By Nadine Terasa, Pauline Beaumont • February 19, 2020

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. […]

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One Month Later, Water Crisis Continues to Punish Rio de Janeiro Peripheries

By Pauline Beaumont, Sofia Bazin • February 11, 2020

As political appointees rush to explain themselves, worries of privatization linger among community activists. January 3, under a smashing summer sun, with temperatures exceeding 35°C (95°F), residents of the Baixada Fluminense, as well as the […]

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