Clique aqui para Português On Monday, March 21, the Rio de Janeiro Youth Forum launched a new app, Nós por Nós (Us for Us), specifically designed for favela residents to denounce police abuses in real […]
Clique aqui para Português An annual report from Amnesty International on the global state of human rights released this week pointed to increasing levels of police brutality against civilians. The State of the World’s Human Rights […]
Clique aqui para Português Women in Brazil are on the march. That’s true in a literal sense, as women put boots-on-the-ground today in Brasília for the annual national Black Women’s March, and in recent weeks in […]
Clique aqui para Português This post is the third of four RioOnWatch contributions to Blog Action Day 2015 in which bloggers around the world reflect on this year’s theme: Raise Your Voice. Check out our full series here. […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese, by Melissa Cannabrava, published in Voz das Comunidades, click here. The actors behind the characters ‘100g’ and ‘Jurubeba’ aim for success and hope to show there is much more […]