Clique aqui para Português On February 6 at 5pm, resident-demonstrators gathered in front of the Rinaldo de Lamare Citizenship Center in the Rocinha favela, in Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone. At the same time, residents of nearby Vidigal […]
In our last article on rising temperatures in Rio de Janeiro, we discussed heat islands and the unequal distribution of extreme heat throughout the metropolitan area. Recently, Rio de Janeiro gained notoriety as the Latin American city that will be […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original in Portuguese by Miriane Peregrino, published in Agência de Notícias das Favelas, click here. And click here for Part II. Located on oceanfront Avenida Niemeyer in the South Zone […]
Hundreds of people from the Landless Workers Movement (MTST) celebrated Black Awareness Day in the very wealthy neighborhood of Leblon. Along with celebrating Afro-Brazilian culture, the event sought to challenge city boundaries that marginalize Afro-Brazilians to the […]
Clique aqui para Português This post is the second of three RioOnWatch contributions to Blog Action Day 2014 in which bloggers around the world reflect on this year’s theme: Inequality. Check out our series of articles marking this day. The lead-up to the […]