Clique aqui para Português After decades of fighting for the right to stay on their inherited land, Quilombo Sacopã was recognized by the federal government this Tuesday September 23. Sacopã is the first urban quilombo to […]
For the original in Portuguese by Jorge Antonio Barros published in O Globo, click here. Misconduct, all too common among the troops, cannot be swept under the rug in the favelas, where residents are tired of being oppressed between […]
For the original article in Portuguese by Henrique Coelho published in G1, click here. One of the access ways to Complexo do Alemão, in the North Zone of Rio de Janeiro, has been home to nearly […]
The mothers of victims of violence in favelas called for justice in a powerful protest in Manguinhos Saturday September 13. Holding up photos of the young men killed by the Military Police, around 50 protesters marched […]
Clique aqui para Português Nearly 100 residents crowded onto a third floor veranda in Vila União de Curicica on Wednesday night to discuss their plan to resist eviction in the face of the TransOlímpica highway […]