Clique aqui para Português Three months after the assassination of human rights defender and city councillor Marielle Franco, Amnesty International held a protest yesterday, June 13, in front of the Rio de Janeiro’s Prosecutor’s Office. The […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the first article in an ongoing series on the Brazilian electoral political scene in 2018. The year of 2018 promises to be intense for Brazilian politics, with concrete impacts […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Michel Silva published by Favela em Pauta click here. Brazil’s Defence Minister, Raul Jungmann, announced in July 2017 that favelas in Rio de Janeiro would […]
Clique aqui para Português Following the recent presentation of the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Region Integrated Urban Development Plan (PDUI-RJ), which took place in the auditorium of the city’s General Archive in Centro, many civil […]
Clique aqui para Português Teacher discontent and demoralization in Rio de Janeiro is growing. After four months, a strike coordinated by the state teachers union recently ended. The striking teachers were demanding an increase in wage […]