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 […]
Clique aqui para Português In 2003, President Luiz Ignacio “Lula” da Silva launched the Bolsa Família program to promote social progress for impoverished families. This and other programs were implemented in an effort to decrease […]
For the original by Artur Voltolini in Portuguese for Observatório de Favelas click here. Although 77% of Rio’s cultural facilities are concentrated in the South Zone, half of the city’s inhabitants live in the West Zone. […]
For the original by Mariana Alvim in Portuguese on Viva Favela click here. Fewer motorized vehicles, proximity to points of interest, and a sense of community: these are some of the features that would make favelas good […]
Clique aqui para Português It is a chorus heard from favela activists across the city, louder in these recent weeks of protest, but it still rings with a special weight coming from the Vila Autódromo […]