Clique aqui para Português On Tuesday, November 29 protests erupted outside Brazil’s Congress in Brasília as the Senate approved a proposal to amend the constitution that would authorize the implementation of harsh austerity measures. If passed, […]
Clique aqui para Português The six month-long suspension of Complexo do Alemão’s cable car was announced on September 14, in between unrelenting police operations in the North Zone favela complex. The cable car will not […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the first article of our three-part series on the Solidarity Economy in Brazil. When one stops to consider Rio’s hundreds of favelas for their plurality, with a lens of […]
On September 15 at the Rio de Janeiro State Legislative Assembly (Alerj), the Forum Grita Baixada (Scream Baixada Forum), Center for Human Rights at the Diocese of Nova Iguaçu, and other civil society organizations from the Baixada Fluminense […]
Clique aqui para Português Human rights by definition should, well, be applied to all humans. In practice, however, they are distributed unevenly and sometimes even regarded as something “deserved” only by some. In a series of interviews with […]