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Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes Sells Off Iconic Green Spaces [REFERENCE]

By André Ilha • Translation by Sylvia Schiller • March 16, 2026

Clique aqui para Português For the original article by André Ilha, published in O Eco on March 9, click here. Upon taking office for his fourth term as Rio de Janeiro’s mayor [in January 2025], […]

#MediaWatch

2025 Retrospective of Top International Reporting on Rio’s Favelas

By Oksana Polańska • December 26, 2025

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, […]

#UPPWatch

‘There’s No Such Thing as Normal After a Massacre’: One Week After Police Mega-Operation Kills 121 People, Residents From Complexos do Alemão and Penha Speak Out

By Felipe Lucena • Translation by Ujwala Murthy • November 15, 2025

Clique aqui para Português In the early morning of October 28, 2025, 2,500 Civil Police and Military Police officers entered the Penha and Alemão favela complexes for a mega-operation that became the deadliest in the […]

Morro da Mangueira — Foto: Brenno Carvalho / Agência O Globo / 07-08-2020
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COP30 Must Engage With and Walk Alongside the Favela [OPINION]

By Preto Zezé • Translation by Monique Murad da Cunha • October 29, 2025

Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Preto Zezé published in O Globo, click here.  For an ecological transition to be just and effective, it must start where the State fails to reach—or […]

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‘Maré’s Specials’ Combats Ableism and Guarantees Rights to Over 700 Atypical Families in Rio de Janeiro’s Largest Favela Complex

By Ramon Vellasco • Translation by Hannah McKenzie • October 15, 2025

Clique aqui para Português In Complexo da Maré, a group of 16 favelas with 140,000 residents in Rio de Janeiro’s North Zone, the Especiais da Maré project (Maré’s Specials, in free translation) serves over 700 […]

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