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Cable Car Suspension and Violent Police Operations Leave Residents Stranded–and Threatened–in Complexo do Alemão

By Ciara Long • September 30, 2016

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 […]

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Solidarity Economy Part 1: Cooperative Development in Rio and Beyond

By Anna Cash • September 29, 2016

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 […]

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Local Organizations Launch Report on Human Rights Violations in the Baixada Fluminense

By Stephanie Reist • September 19, 2016

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 […]

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In Brazil, No One Seems to ‘Earn’ Their Human Rights

By Christian Kuitert • September 12, 2016

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 […]

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Meet the NGO with the Key to Cleaning the Famed Guanabara Bay [IMAGES]

By Christopher Peel • August 22, 2016

Clique aqui para Português On the northern edge of Nova Iguaçu in the Baixada Fluminense lies the district of Tinguá, home to roughly 5,000 people, waterways that flow into Guanabara Bay, and the start of the Tinguá […]

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