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Female Entrepreneurship + Racial Literacy = Financial Autonomy for Women in Jardim Gramacho, Favela Made Famous in ‘Waste Land’ Film

By Janaina Tavares • Translation by Yasmin Quaife • March 20, 2025

Clique aqui para Português This Women’s Month, in one of the most vulnerable areas of Greater Rio de Janeiro’s Baixada Fluminense region, an initiative is transforming the lives of Black women from low-income backgrounds with […]

*Highlight

In Greater Rio de Janeiro, ‘Divas Group’ Honors Marielle Franco’s Legacy by Empowering Women in Public Housing

By Carla Regina • Translation by Ujwala Murthy • March 18, 2025

Clique aqui para Português “A mantra for our lives, in the midst of this crisis: may we live with respect for all—each with her own body, each in her own way, each in her own […]

#ParticipationWatch

In Wealthy Leblon, Seminar Centers Demands of Rio Favelas

By Amanda Baroni Lopes • Translation by Staff • February 10, 2025

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 […]

*Highlight

Inspired by Ancestralized Grandma Josefa Silva Nascimento, Enterprising Afro-Indigenous Women in Rio de Janeiro Found the As Josefinas Institute [PROFILE]

By Carla Regina • Translation by Yasmin Quaife • January 30, 2025

Clique aqui para Português This article is part of RioOnWatch‘s series on Memories of Favela Power, which documents and celebrates the history of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas through narratives and reports from residents’ collective memory, in […]

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2024 Retrospective of Top International Reporting on Rio’s Favelas

By Kincaid Cummings • December 26, 2024

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, […]

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