Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) – Page 64

Public square as a community right

By Sarah De Rose • July 28, 2011

Last week, O Centro Loyola de Fé e Cultura from PUC University hosted the last part of a lecture series entitled “Builders and the Built – the spaces of human relations” which set out to […]

by Community Contributors

Missing my Providência

By Hosana Souza • Translation by Priscila Vivar • July 22, 2011

Clique aqui para Português “I miss my Providência,” exclaimed Eron César dos Santos, who has lived on the hill for 44 years, or his entire life. A man with glasses and a burn mark on […]

Porto Maravilha and Rio’s Oldest Favela

By Andréia Coutinho • Translation by Priscila Vivar • July 21, 2011

Clique aqui para Português A community marked by solidarity between its residents, in Rio de Janeiro’s port area, is at risk of evictions of several of its residents. Living in this community has become a […]

Forced Evictions in the South Zone

By Mary Allison Joseph • June 17, 2011

Officials from City Government and the Justice Department showed up at Ricelia Fernandes’ home in Pavão/Pavãozinho, a community in Copacabana, the heart of the South Zone, last Friday June 10th, 2011, at 5pm with a […]

Houses on Morro Santa Marta over buildings in Botafogo

Way Beyond the UPP

By MC Fiell • Translation by Richard Willmsen • February 21, 2011

Clique aqui para Português Here we are more than two years on from the implementation of the UPP (Police Pacification Unit) in Santa Marta, Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro’s South Zone. What has improved? Here I […]