Clique aqui para Português On Tuesday afternoon, July 2, more than 5,000 people united in Maré, Rio’s largest favela complex located in the city’s North Zone, in memorial to the ten people slaughtered in the shocking […]
Click here for the original editorial from Observatorio de Favelas, in Portuguese. It’s been a long time since so many Brazilians have taken to the streets. In major cities more and more people are turning […]
Youth Protest and Devise Solutions to Police Violence in Rio’s Favelas Following the recent North Zone UPP police killings of 21 year-old Aliélson Nogueira in Jacarezinho on April 4th and 16 year-old Mateus Oliveira Casé […]
For the original article in Portuguese by Caio Quero on BBC Brasil click here. The creation of shopping malls in Rio’s favelas may reinforce the distance between these communities and the rest of the city, […]