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  • [ June 21, 2025 ] ‘We’re Working at the Micro Level Because There Are People Destroying Things on a Macro Scale’: In Rio de Janeiro, ‘Green Roof Favela’ Engages Popular Culture on World Environment Day Civil Society
  • [ June 20, 2025 ] Get to Know ‘Gaia Space’, A Network of Women Fighting for Environmental Justice and Obstetric Dignity in Greater Rio de Janeiro *Highlight
  • [ June 10, 2025 ] Groundbreaking Oral History Project—‘Favela Climate Memory’—Launches Final Exhibition, Fostering Emotional Connection Between Climate, Nature and Community [Video] *Highlight
  • [ June 7, 2025 ] ‘Being a Black Woman Running a Museum Means Facing the Past, Eye to Eye… It’s Reparation in Motion’: Sinara Rúbia’s Full Speech at Brazil’s 1st Seminar on Anti-Racist Museums *Highlight
  • [ June 5, 2025 ] ‘A Museology That Doesn’t Serve Life Serves No Purpose’: ‘Unconventional’ Favela Museums Lead First Seminar of Rio de Janeiro’s Social Museology Network *Highlight
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A Pyramidal Approach to Upgrading Rio’s Favelas, Part 5: Intermediary Structure and Multidisciplinary Approach

By Natalia Meléndez Fuentes • September 9, 2021

Clique aqui para Português This is the fifth article in a six-part series on the application of Meléndez’s Pyramid for Favela Upgrading to the city of Rio de Janeiro and its favelas. This pyramidal concept […]

View from Manguinhos. Photo by Edilano Cavalcante
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Manguinhos’ Struggles and Resistance During the Pandemic, Debated by Residents and Activists

By Thomas Maggiola • August 10, 2020

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on the Covid-19 and its impact on the favelas and part of our series covering 2020’s Black July. On July 28, as part of the 5th […]

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Institutions from Five Brazilian States Launch Network to Monitor Violence and Human Rights Abuses

By Edmund Ruge • June 6, 2019

Clique aqui para Português Institutions from five Brazilian states have joined together to launch the Network of Public Security Observatories, a collaborative initiative to track a broad range of violence and human rights indicators. As […]

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A Feast on Watermelon Rinds and Banana Peels: Favela Orgânica [PROFILE] #SustainableFavelaNetwork

By Laura Bunn • January 30, 2019

Clique aqui para Português Initiative: Favela Orgânica Contact: Facebook | Website | Email Year Founded: 2011 Community: Babilônia and Chapéu-Mangueira, South Zone Mission: Valuing and sharing the food cycle through respect and love for what nature gives us […]

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4th Sustainable Favela Exchange: The ‘Struggle, Strength, Resistance’ of Quilombo do Camorim [IMAGES]

By Jessica Depies • December 19, 2018

Clique aqui para Português The Sustainable Favela Network (SFN) is a project of Catalytic Communities (CatComm)* designed to build solidarity networks, bring visibility, and develop joint actions to support the expansion of community-based initiatives that strengthen environmental sustainability and […]

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