Clique aqui para Português It is a chorus heard from favela activists across the city, louder in these recent weeks of protest, but it still rings with a special weight coming from the Vila Autódromo […]
For the original in Portuguese here. Article by Raquel Rolnik, Special Rapporteur to the UN on Adequate Housing. Recently, the city of São Paulo presented a decree (54.074, from July 5, 2013) which deals with […]
Rio de Janeiro has arrived. Or at least that’s what the city’s authorities, and most of the international publicity the ‘Marvelous City’ has received in recent years, would have us believe. After decades of economic […]
For the original article by Claudia Antunes in Portuguese published in Piauí click here (subscribers only). An account of the residents’ movement in Rio de Janeiro’s first favela in an era of sporting mega-events and political […]
At around 11am on Wednesday May 15th, Maria de Conceição, 57, was taking a shower in her wood and corrugated iron home in the Bandeira 1 favela in Del Castilho, North Zone, when she heard […]