Clique aqui para Português This article is part of RioOnWatch’s ongoing #VoicesFromSocialMedia series, which compiles perspectives posted on social media by favela residents and activists about events and societal themes that arise. On Saturday night January […]
Clique aqui para Português Garbage Policy: Profit and Environmental Disaster The issue of garbage in Magé, a municipality in Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Baixada Fluminense region, has been a longstanding concern for residents and socio-environmental […]
Clique aqui para Português Maria Conga was a quilombola leader who led the fight against slavery in the city of Magé in Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Baixada Fluminense region in the early 19th century. She is […]
Clique aqui para Português Of a total 2,785 registration requests from Rio de Janeiro candidates to run in the upcoming elections, only 23 have agendas with a focus on the needs of peripheries, eleven of […]
Clique aqui para Português This article is part of a series of articles on Rio de Janeiro’s 2020 municipal elections from a favela perspective. For decades, the political process in municipalities of Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Baixada […]