For original article by Fabio Brisolla in Folha de São Paulo, click here. Nine out of ten residents of the favelas in Rio de Janeiro, under the age of 30, access the World Wide Web. […]
Cidade de Deus, Rio’s most famous West Zone favela, was made (in)famous thanks to the book and international blockbuster by the same name, City of God. The community today is occupied by a Pacifying Policy Unit […]
Clique aqui para Português This is Part 1 of a three-part series on the History of Favela Upgrades in Rio. Click for Part 2 and Part 3. Housing rights activists today defend the practice of on-site upgrading of […]
Non-governmental organizations in Rio’s favelas that work with art, culture, sport and civic engagement provide structures that allow young people to escape a career of crime and, by actively showing that drugs, violence and crime […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Agência Brasil published in Jornal do Brasil click here. Projects developed to modernize Rio’s favelas will be presented beginning Tuesday, June 26 in an exhibition called […]