Clique aqui para Português Last Saturday, as a light rain fell over the city of Rio de Janeiro, the families living on Maracajás Road, Galeão on Ilha do Governador met to tell their stories and organize […]
Clique aqui para Português Orlando “Folha Seca” (Dry Leaf) Pereira da Silva, the first gardener to be formally employed by Rio de Janeiro’s Botanical Gardens, died on June 1 at the age of one hundred. […]
Clique aqui para Português As night fell on Wednesday, September 13, residents of the Horto community in Rio’s South Zone met at an urgent meeting to discuss new circumstances in their ongoing fight against eviction. Community leaders from […]
Clique aqui para Português The recent reconfiguration of Rio de Janeiro into an Olympic city directly compromised its inhabitants’ housing rights through the forced removals of low-income residents who lived in areas subject to real […]
Clique aqui para Português On August 11, the Brazilian School of Higher Studies (CBAE) hosted the launch of the Laboratory for Studies of Transformations in Brazilian Urban Law (LEDUB), “a point of convergence for students, […]