Clique aqui para Português According to research published in A Country Called Favela by Renato Meirelles and Celso Athayde, favelas across Brazil house around six million women. Around 40% of homes in favelas are supported financially by women, […]
Clique aqui para Português A documentary produced by the organization House of the Working Woman (CAMTRA – Casa da Mulher Trabalhadora) documented the impact of the 2014 World Cup on women in Rio de Janeiro. In […]
For the original by Deborah Athila in Portuguese, published in Viva Favela, click here. Eight years ago, the fight against domestic violence gained a new ally: the Maria da Penha law. The law was seen as a […]
Cidade de Deus, Rio’s most famous West Zone favela, was made (in)famous thanks to the book and international blockbuster by the same name, City of God. The community today is occupied by a Pacifying Policy Unit […]
For the original article in Marie Claire in Portuguese click here. Over the past five years anthropologist Walquiria Domingues Leão Rêgo has witnessed a change in behavior in the poorest, and probably most sexist, areas […]