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. […]
Clique aqui para Português On November 9 and 10, Fundição Progresso in downtown Rio teemed with an air of innovation, transformation, and social justice. The cultural center in Lapa hosted the ColaborAmérica conference, an event focused […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the final article in a four-part series on the potential to apply the Community Land Trust (CLT) model under existing Brazilian laws to secure land rights in Brazil’s favelas. The series was written for a […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the first article in a four-part series on the potential to apply the Community Land Trust (CLT) model under existing Brazilian laws to secure land rights in Brazil’s favelas. The series was […]
Clique aqui para Português In July 2017, federal lawmakers transformed the controversial Provisional Measure 759 into Law 13.465—known as the Land Regularization Law—approving measures that streamline the process of land regularization in urban and rural areas. […]