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 […]
Clique aqui para Português This article by Juliana Portella is one of a series of five opinion pieces on the impeachment by community reporters published this week on RioOnWatch. Ju, as Juliana prefers to be called, is […]
Clique aqui para Português The Australian Olympic Committee plans to ban its athletes and team members from visiting favelas while in Rio de Janeiro for the Olympics. The team at RioOnWatch implores the AOC to reconsider its […]
Clique aqui para Português The traditional media, which hold the largest audiences across media channels, differ from democratic forms of communication because they are beholden to large corporations. Their social, moral and historic intentions are different. Political interests dominate when […]
For decades, media coverage of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas characterized these neighborhoods as peripheral and violent, documenting organized crime, armed robberies and homicides as somehow inherent to the informal city. As misconceptions of the nature […]