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Baixada Denounces Massacres and Forced Disappearances at State Legislative Hearing

By Fabio Leon • Translation by Ava Rose Hoffman • May 15, 2019

Clique aqui para Português  On April 29, 2018, O Globo newspaper reported the burial of five victims of the massacre in Vila Operária, Duque Caxias, in Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Baixada Fluminense on the northern outskirts of […]

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14th Anniversary of the Baixada Massacre: Local Organizations Plan a Week of Remembrance

By Fabio Leon • Translation by Ava Hoffman • March 27, 2019

Clique aqui para Português On the night of March 16, twelve-year-old Kauan Noslinde Pimenta Peixoto died after being shot during a Military Police intervention in the community of Chatuba, located in the municipality of Mesquita in Greater […]

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‘Rio as a Whole’ and Rio Agenda 2030 Launch Proposals to Combat Inequality in the Metropolis

By Luisa Fenizola • Translation by Sharonya Vadakattu • July 9, 2018

Clique aqui para Português On Saturday, June 23, the 11th Rio Forum took place in São Gonçalo. The Forum is a meeting organized by Casa Fluminense, a civil society organization working to improve coordinated and […]

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Countdown to Brazil’s 2018 Elections, Part 3: Public Security and Military Intervention

By Luisa Fenizola • Translation by Arman Kazemi, Desirée Poets • March 3, 2018

Clique aqui para Português This is the third article in an ongoing series on the Brazilian electoral political scene in 2018. On February 16, President Michel Temer authorized a federal military intervention in Rio de Janeiro that […]

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New Film, ‘Trajetos,’ Tells Everyday Stories of Love, Hardship and Reflection on Rio’s Long Bus Routes

By Stephanie Reist • August 8, 2017

Clique aqui para Português Trajetos (Routes), a film produced by Rio de Janeiro-based audiovisual collective Canal Plá, will premier this Saturday August 12 at 8pm in Nova Iguaçu in the Praça dos Direitos Humanos (Human Rights […]

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