Clique aqui para Português An exhibit now in its final days at Rio de Janeiro’s Museum of the Republic presents a small taste of the photographic archive of Anthony Leeds, a prominent American anthropologist celebrated for introducing urban anthropology […]
Clique aqui para Português Since its inception in 1991, Casa de Santa Ana has pioneered the delivery of healthcare and physical therapy to elderly residents in Cidade de Deus (City of God). Located in the heart […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese published in Folha de São Paulo, click here. Rio’s favela residents share their views of the 2016 Olympics and of the pacification process of the Pacifying Police Units (UPPs). […]
Clique aqui para Português Waste management is a problem faced by virtually every favela in Rio de Janeiro. Most communities suffer inadequate or non-existent waste collection services because public agencies miscount the local population and provide inadequate services, […]
Clique aqui para Português On Wednesday July 1 the Brazilian Congress rejected a proposal that would lower the age of criminal responsibility for heinous crimes from 18 to 16. Congress members spent all of Tuesday June 30 […]