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 […]
Clique aqui para Português Originally published in Portuguese in 2020, this is part two of a two-part article that describes the expansion of the state-sanctioned power of vigilante police militias in the Rio de Janeiro […]
Clique aqui para Português The ‘right to the favela’—a social, political and pedagogical position in defense of the right to life, development, and rootedness in the favelas—is disrupted daily by the ‘right to public security’ […]
Clique aqui para Português In Brazil, progressive evangelicals have been organizing against religious intolerance, racism, and the far-right. The Evangelical Front for the Rule of Law is an example of this: a Christian movement that […]
Clique aqui para Português This is our latest story on coronavirus and its impacts on favelas. On the morning of May 28, the Military Police evicted Cleuza Maria de Toledo’s family, who lived in the […]