Clique aqui para Português This is Part 5 in a five-part series documenting Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) installations. In 2014, with priorities focused on the FIFA World Cup and with the entire Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese published in Folha de São Paulo, click here. Rio’s favela residents share their views of the 2016 Olympics and of the pacification process of the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs). […]
Clique aqui para Português Rio de Janeiro is currently in a special spotlight as athletes, fans, nations and the global media reflect on the one year remaining to the 2016 Olympic Games, set to end exactly […]
Clique aqui para Português On Wednesday June 24, NGO Viva Rio hosted a public meeting in Gloria, in the South Zone of Rio to discuss the importance of collectives as a new form of community organization and their role inside and […]
Clique aqui para Português Residents of Vila Kennedy in Rio de Janeiro’s West Zone gathered once again for a ‘mutirão de limpeza’—a collective clean-up effort. These clean-ups happen every rainy day in summer and winter, as the […]