Clique aqui para Português Last Saturday, as a light rain fell over the city of Rio de Janeiro, the families living on Maracajás Road, Galeão on Ilha do Governador met to tell their stories and organize […]
Clique aqui para Português On December 22, 2016, President Michel Temer revised a law that specifically regularizes urban and rural land owned by the federal government, notably eliminating requirements for upgrading infrastructure on those lands. The […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Mariah Queiroz in Portuguese published by Agência Pública click here. Families evicted to make room for the now-abandoned Olympic Park have gone to court for reparations; data obtained through freedom of […]
Clique aqui para Português Last Friday, March 24, Urban League Cooperative and others organized a public teach-in on Provisional Measure 759/2016 (MP 759). MP 759, published last December, is a presidential decree stated to facilitate land regularization […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Luciana Bedeschi and Paulo Romeiro in Portuguese published by Nexo click here. What is being sold as an attempt to reduce bureaucracy and increase efficiency in the […]