The Popular Committee for the World Cup and Olympics and the Marcha Das Vadias (Slut Walk) came together last week, June 16, to discuss mega-events, sexual tourism and the regulation of prostitution in Rio de Janeiro. […]
Erik Martins has many fingers in many pies. I told him so, on the first of many nights that we spent together in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro’s largest favela, located in the city’s South Zone. […]
For decades, media coverage of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas characterized these neighborhoods as peripheral and violent, documenting organized crime, armed robberies and homicides as somehow inherent to the informal city. As misconceptions of the nature […]
Clique aqui para Português Rio’s Port Region has received a lot of attention in the years leading up to the Olympics with massive infrastructure projects such as the construction of a light rail system, numerous new […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Nemora Lisboa published in Viva Favela click here. Seeing the city from high up is one of the main reasons tourists visit Rio de […]