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Favela Residents Denounce Olympics Death Toll on Social Media

By Ava Rose Hoffman • August 30, 2016

Clique aqui para Português Between August 5 and 21, over the course of the Olympic Games, 92 shootouts took place in Rio de Janeiro, leaving at least 31 dead and 51 injured due to armed conflict, according […]

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Amid Gold Medal Celebration, Activists Protest Police Violence and Demonstrate #HungerToLive

By Natalie Southwick • August 23, 2016

Clique aqui para Português Shortly after 8pm on Saturday, August 20, just as the thousands of fans packed into the Olympic Boulevard in Rio’s Port Region began celebrating Brazil’s victory in the gold medal soccer match, a group […]

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The Debate of Our Times: The Right to Public Coexistence or Barbarism?

By Jailson de Souza e Silva • Translation by Sheila Taylor • May 7, 2016

Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Jailson de Souza e Silva* in Portuguese published by Nexo Jornal click here. Without the guarantee to the right to coexistence we won’t escape the barbarism that Rosa Luxemburg […]

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Funding Shortage and Increased Violence Amounts to UPP Crisis

By Mariah Barber • April 28, 2016

Clique aqui para Português With less than 100 days to the 2016 Olympic Games, Rio’s Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) program and public security in Rio is in crisis. Although the controversial UPP program has faced setbacks […]

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Youth Forum Presents Preliminary Results of “Nós Por Nós” App to Denounce Police Violence

By Bruno Calisto, Jody van Mastrigt • April 16, 2016

Clique aqui para Português Two weeks after the launch of the “Nós Por Nós” (Us for Us) phone application, the Rio de Janeiro Youth Forum presented the results and challenges they have encountered since the app launch. […]

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