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[ March 30, 2025 ] Meet Dona Nete: The Acari Artisan Turning Waste Into Fashion and Championing Zero Waste in the Favela by Community Contributors
[ March 27, 2025 ] ‘It’s a Right! Without Water, We’ll Die’: World Water Day Protest Demands the Right to Water in the Favelas of Greater Rio *Highlight
[ March 24, 2025 ] Storm Hits Model Community Agroecology Project, Exposing Lack of Environmental Policy and Neglect of Favela-Based Climate Solutions in Rio de Janeiro *Highlight
[ March 22, 2025 ] While Population Suffers Impacts of Poor Infrastructure, Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Flood Containment Program Is Delayed and Over Budget #InterventionWatch
[ March 20, 2025 ] Female Entrepreneurship + Racial Literacy = Financial Autonomy for Women in Jardim Gramacho, Favela Made Famous in ‘Waste Land’ Film by Community Contributors

Rio Top Tour

By Jamie Worms • August 4, 2011

On August 30, 2010, the State Secretary of Tourism, Sport and Leisure launched a tourist attraction called Rio Top Tour in Santa Marta, Rio de Janeiro´s first pacified favela as of December 22, 2008. The […]

Houses on Morro Santa Marta over buildings in Botafogo

Way Beyond the UPP

By MC Fiell • Translation by Richard Willmsen • February 21, 2011

Clique aqui para Português Here we are more than two years on from the implementation of the UPP (Police Pacification Unit) in Santa Marta, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone. What has improved? Here I […]