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  • [ March 26, 2023 ] SOS! Residents of ‘Trendy’ Vidigal Favela Once Again Threatened with Forced Evictions: Environmental Racism and State Neglect in the Face of Extreme Weather Events [IMAGES] #EvictionsWatch
  • [ March 25, 2023 ] Five Years After Her Political Femicide, Rio de Janeiro Has Failed to Implement Any of the Legislation Introduced by Marielle Franco #MarielleLegacy
  • [ March 20, 2023 ] ‘Pasmado’ Play Reclaims the Memory of a Forgotten Favela Removed from Botafogo in the 1960s #EvictionsWatch
  • [ March 13, 2023 ] ‘No More Floods!’ Declares Global Climate Strike Action in Rio’s Jacarezinho and Manguinhos Favelas [IMAGES] *Highlight
  • [ March 12, 2023 ] Rio de Janeiro’s Global Climate Strike Manifesto in English: A Call for Action from the City on Climate Change—Climate Disasters Have an Address and a Color Civil Society
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Community Land Trusts and the Struggle for the Right to the City: Dialogue on Rio and Mozambique

By Tomás Aboim • Translation by Adrian Hooper • June 11, 2021

Clique aqui para Português As part of the activities of UN-Habitat’s 2020 Urban Circuit, the Community Land Trust (CLT) Working Group held a livestreamed virtual event on October 20, 2020, facilitated by Catalytic Communities (CatComm)*, […]

Sanitation regulation approved in the Senate and sanctioned by Bolsonario aims to increase the participation of private entities in the sector. In the picture, there is Guangu Sewage Treatment Station.
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‘Only Public Management Reduces Inequality in Access to Sanitation,’ Says Researcher

By Eduardo Miranda • Translation by Ikrom Alajoulin • September 24, 2020

Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on Covid-19 and its impacts on the favelas. For the original interview published in Portuguese by Eduardo Miranda in Brasil de Fato, click here.  The idea that […]

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Rio de Janeiro’s Public Defenders for Land and Housing Rights: A Unique, Trailblazing Institution Turns 30

By Anouk Aflalo Doré • March 17, 2020

Clique aqui para Português Rio de Janeiro housing rights activists have come together this February and March in a cycle of conferences to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Land and Housing Nucleus (NUTH), of […]

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‘Education and Favelas’ Seminar Discusses Challenges for Education in Favelas and Peripheries

By Thábara Garcia • Translation by Dylan Blau Edelstein • September 17, 2019

Clique aqui para Português On September 3, the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) hosted the “Education and Favelas” seminar, organized by UERJ’s Education and City Research Nucleus (NUPEC), with support from the Metropolitan Ethnography […]

Sign and banner at the entrance to Vila Autódromo on October 16, 2011
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Not Everyone Has a Price, Part 3: Vila Autódromo’s Rise as a Symbol of Olympic Resistance [VIDEO]

By Theresa Williamson • August 14, 2018

Clique aqui para Português This is the third article in a six-part series that comprises the book chapter entitled “Not Everyone Has a Price: How the Small Favela of Vila Autódromo’s Fight Opened a Path to Olympic […]

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  • In Rio de Janeiro’s Extreme West Zone, the Pioneering Politics of Inclusion, Struggle, and Resistance That Is Uniting Social Service Institutions with Afro-Brazilian Religious Leaders [IMAGES]
    By Bárbara Dias • Translation by Felix Foot • February 27, 2023
  • ‘Let’s Walk Together’: Brazilian Minister of Racial Equality Anielle Franco’s Inauguration Speech in Full
    By Anielle Franco • Translation by Kay Alvito • January 27, 2023
  • 2022 Best and Worst International Reporting on Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas [EDITORIAL]
    By RioOnWatch Editorial • Translation by Staff • January 16, 2023

  • Understanding Energy Justice and Efficiency in Rio’s Favelas [VIDEO]
    By Jaqueline Suarez • Translation by Pilar Boyero • December 13, 2021
  • Pedra Branca and the Energy Dilemmas of Rio’s Urbanization: From Charcoal to Electricity
    By Antonio Alonso, Iamni Torres Jager • Translation by Trisha Ponti • November 1, 2021
  • Energy That Comes From Waste: Biodigester Turns Sewage into Biogas in Vale Encantado Favela [VIDEO]
    By Jaqueline Suarez • Translation by Saskia Wright • August 1, 2021

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