Clique aqui para Português This article is part of RioOnWatch’s ongoing #VoicesFromSocialMedia series, which compiles perspectives posted on social media by favela residents and activists about events and societal themes that arise. Year after year, the problem persists: […]
Clique aqui para Português On January 30, the Rio de Janeiro Municipal Federation of Favelas (FAF-RIO), in partnership with Instituto 12, Ọ̀yọ́ Cultural, and Cetbras, held the first edition of the FAF-RIO seminar entitled “Dialogues […]
Clique aqui para Português From 2013 to 2023, RioOnWatch ran the Best and Worst International Reporting on Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas series. It began, quite symptomatically, with the Worst International Reporting on Rio’s Favelas: 2013, […]
Clique aqui para Português On November 14, the Sustainable Favela Network (SFN)*, in partnership with the National Secretariat for the Peripheries (SNP) of Brazil’s Ministry of Cities, hosted the launch event for the publication Nature-Based […]
Clique aqui para Português This Brazilian Black Awareness Month, RioOnWatch celebrates two recent milestones for Afro-diasporic culture: the debut of breakdancing in the Olympics and the enactment of Rio de Janeiro State Law 10.289/2024, which […]