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IWD 2019: Thousands of Women Flood the Streets of Rio to Protest Gender-Based Violence [IMAGES]

By Daiana Contini • March 13, 2019

Clique aqui para Português Violence against women is a systemic issue in Rio and across Brazil, a country with the 5th highest femicide rate in the world. Four women have been killed every day so far […]

Membros da Comissão visitam casas de moradores
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Still Threatened With Eviction, Rio das Pedras Shifts Focus, Offering Basic Services Where City Fails

By Tyler Strobl • February 25, 2019

Clique aqui para Português During a February 13 appearance on TV Globo, Mayor Marcelo Crivella was prompted to discuss the situation in Rio das Pedras, a West Zone community that was among the many Rio de Janeiro neighborhoods […]

*Highlight

Police Officer Threatens Boy: ‘Killing Your Brother Was a Job Well Done. Grow Up So I Can Kill You Too’

By Leonardo Coelho • Translation by Habib Msallem • February 14, 2019

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Leonardo Coelho published by Ponte Jornalismo click here. Military Police officer threatened eight-year-old boy during operation that left thirteen dead in Rio de Janeiro; mother […]

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Called ‘Invaders,’ Century-Old Trapicheiros Favela Mobilizes to Shift Narrative and Affirm Rights

By Tyler Strobl • February 12, 2019

Clique aqui para Português In early October 2018, residents of Trapicheiros—a small favela of 52 families situated near Salgueiro in Tijuca, in the North Zone of Rio—began receiving messages of harassment from strangers on the Internet. […]

by Community Contributors

Collection of ‘Street Corner Poetry’ Launched in Rio de Janeiro’s City of God

By Jota Marques, Letícia Lemos • Translation by Cheyne Bull • February 7, 2019

Clique aqui para Português “Art is salvation? And then what?” challenges Deborah Fadiga in her poem “Art is Salvation!” The poem appears on page 53 of Street Corner Poetry: Collection Volume 0, a 242-page book that […]

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