Clique aqui para Português On July 22, one of the most read local newspapers in the United Kingdom published an article comparing overcrowded student accommodation in Birmingham to “Third World Shanty Towns.” Local politicians commented that one […]
Clique aqui para Português June 19, 2013–CatComm Executive Director Theresa Williamson was invited to engage in a New York Times debate forum on the protests taking hold of Brazil. See original debate here with her response here. Full response follows: Anyone […]
For the original full post in Portuguese by Dodô Azevedo on G1 click here. June 14, 2013 João do Rio, the famous nineteenth-century Carioca journalist and writer, used to say that to learn the facts […]
View original in Portuguese here. Article by Raquel Rolnik, Special Rapporteur to the UN on Adequate Housing. After announcing the “Estação Patrocinada” (“Sponsored Station”) project, Metrô Rio, the management company for Rio de Janeiro’s metro system, […]
For the original article in Portuguese by Sérgio Magalhães* in O Globo, click here. Troubled by the quality of construction of projects in the Minha Casa Minha Vida (MCMV, or My House My Life federal […]