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Hunger Is a Feminine Noun, Part 2: Greater Rio’s Japeri Municipality in Chaos

By Elvira Lobato • Translation by Tara Mittelberg • July 5, 2019

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Elvira Lobato published by Agência Pública click here for the series and here for the article. Angelina Nunes and Claudia Lima contributed reporting. Photographs […]

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The Art of Griots: An Inspiration for Black Storytellers

By Carla Souza • Translation by Ava Rose Hoffman • June 15, 2019

Clique aqui para Português On May 20, a calm day, students in the 14th Black Storytelling course start arriving at the House of Music—a comfortable space in Lapa, Rio de Janeiro—to the sounds of Alabê […]

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Association of Women with Attitude and Social Commitment of the Baixada #SustainableFavelaNetwork [PROFILE]

By Sharonya Vadakattu • June 4, 2019

Clique aqui para Português Initiative: The Association of Women with Attitude and Social Commitment (AMAC) Contact: Facebook | Twitter | Email Year Founded: 2012 Community: São Bento, Duque de Caxias (Baixada Fluminense) Mission: Empowering women, especially […]

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Brazil’s National Solid Waste Policy and its Inadequacies in Rio’s Baixada Fluminense

By Fábio Fonseca Figueiredo, Valéria Pereira Bastos • Translation by Ava Rose Hoffman, Júlia Hara Medeiros • April 4, 2019

Clique aqui para Português In 1991, then-president Fernando Collor de Mello sent Brazil’s federal Congress a proposition of what would later become the country’s national waste management policy. The idea was to present that policy at the […]

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‘In Rio de Janeiro, the Militia Isn’t a Parallel Power. It’s the Government.’ [INTERVIEW]

By Mariana Simões • Translation by Gabriel Martins • March 12, 2019

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Mariana Simões published by Agência Pública click here. In the following interview, a sociologist who has studied Rio de Janeiro’s [vigilante off-duty police] militias for 26 […]

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