For the original article by Maíra Mathias, Raquel Júnia and Raquel Torres in Portuguese, click here. There was a community hampering Rio de Janeiro making itself beautiful for tourists coming to the 2014 World Cup and […]
For original article in Portuguese on Yahoo! click here. Article by Raquel Rolnik, Special Rapporteur to the UN on Adequate Housing. At this point, it does not take writing a thesis or doctoral dissertation to identify the profound […]
In a protest organized and funded by the Rio de Janeiro state government–with the right to take off from work to participate–held on Monday, November 26, up to 200,0000 people flooded the streets of downtown […]
Democracy has strayed far from its origin as a system of governance giving all citizens equal access to decision-making authority and the opportunity to serve in office. Modern day political campaigns not only entail budgets reaching […]
With elections approaching in Rio de Janeiro, political campaigns have a presence on every street corner, television, and billboard. But the complicated political system in Rio, and some of the implications of this system, go […]