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  • [ June 21, 2025 ] ‘We’re Working at the Micro Level Because There Are People Destroying Things on a Macro Scale’: In Rio de Janeiro, ‘Green Roof Favela’ Engages Popular Culture on World Environment Day Civil Society
  • [ June 20, 2025 ] Get to Know ‘Gaia Space’, A Network of Women Fighting for Environmental Justice and Obstetric Dignity in Greater Rio de Janeiro *Highlight
  • [ June 10, 2025 ] Groundbreaking Oral History Project—‘Favela Climate Memory’—Launches Final Exhibition, Fostering Emotional Connection Between Climate, Nature and Community [Video] *Highlight
  • [ June 7, 2025 ] ‘Being a Black Woman Running a Museum Means Facing the Past, Eye to Eye… It’s Reparation in Motion’: Sinara Rúbia’s Full Speech at Brazil’s 1st Seminar on Anti-Racist Museums *Highlight
  • [ June 5, 2025 ] ‘A Museology That Doesn’t Serve Life Serves No Purpose’: ‘Unconventional’ Favela Museums Lead First Seminar of Rio de Janeiro’s Social Museology Network *Highlight
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Public participates of a special session with members of favela community museums during the 2023 IPPUR Week. Photo: Bárbara Dias
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Urban Planners at Rio’s Federal University Get Special Class on Favela Climate Memory

By Bárbara Dias • Translation by Kay Alvito • December 28, 2023

Clique aqui para Português Invited by the Urban and Regional Planning and Research Institute (IPPUR) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) and supported by the Research Support Foundation for the State of […]

Event Reports

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 […]

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