Clique aqui para Português Tinguá is a rather bucolic region of Nova Iguaçu, in Greater Rio de Janeiro, surrounded by hills with dense vegetation and areas of environmental protection. What breaks with this vision of […]
Clique aqui para Português This post is the third of four RioOnWatch contributions to Blog Action Day 2015 in which bloggers around the world reflect on this year’s theme: Raise Your Voice. Check out our full series here. […]
Clique aqui para Português The government is proving incapable of facing an enormous and challenging public health problem: drug abuse. State and municipal neglect in Nova Holanda, one of the 16 favelas that make up Maré, has […]
For the original by Carl Hart, Eliana Sousa Silva and Julita Lemgruber in Portuguese in O Globo click here. What do favelas and ‘cracolândias’ (‘crack lands’) have in common? Both suffer the same problems: they […]
On Friday November 8, the Hotel e Spa da Loucura (Hotel and Spa of Madness) at the Nise da Silveira psychiatric and rehabilitation center hosted AFROntamento, an event in celebration of Brazilian Black Awareness Month. […]