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Original art for the F-CLT National Seminar
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Favela CLT National Seminar, Part 2: International Examples, Potentialities and Challenges

By Gabriela Buffon Vargas, Julio Santos Filho • September 5, 2021

Clique aqui para Português This is the second of two articles covering the Favela Community Land Trust National Seminar. Read the first part here. Continuing the Favela Community Land Trust (CLT)* National Seminar, facilitated by […]

Original art for the F-CLT National Seminar
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Favela Community Land Trust National Seminar, Part 1: Collective Property and Security of Tenure

By Eduardo Antunez Rolle • Translation by Grant Brown, Trisha Ponti • September 1, 2021

Clique aqui para Português This is the first of two articles covering the Favela Community Land Trust Brazil-wide Seminar. Read the second part here. The Favela Community Land Trust National Seminar took place from June […]

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In Manguinhos, ‘Estrelas do Mandela’ Girls’ Soccer Transforms Lives On and Off the Soccer Field

By Gabriela Buffon Vargas • Translation by Zaira Apolinario Chaplin • August 23, 2021

Clique aqui para Português The Brazilian soccer player most frequently considered the best in the world is a woman. Still, the sport is often viewed as a masculine activity throughout the country. Actions that challenge […]

Protest in Jacarezinho while the public hearing happened in the morning of May 7, the morning after Jacarezinho massacre
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Public Hearing on Confronting Poverty in Rio de Janeiro Identifies Actions to Combat Hunger

By Eduardo Antunez Rolle • May 17, 2021

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article about Covid-19 and its impacts on the favelas. On May 8, Rio de Janeiro State Deputy Renata Souza organized the public hearing, “Confronting Moderate and Extreme Poverty […]

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Education and Technology in Favelas: Tela Preta Tech Holds First Favela Education Fair

By Pilar Boyero • Translation by Cheyne Bull • April 26, 2021

 Clique aqui para Português This article is part of a series created in partnership with the Center for Critical Studies in Language, Education, and Society (NECLES), at the Fluminense Federal University (UFF), to produce articles to be […]

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    By Jaqueline Suarez • Translation by Saskia Wright • August 1, 2021

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