Clique aqui para Português This is our latest article on the new coronavirus as it impacts Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. The coronavirus pandemic has intensified situations of inequality and oppression throughout Brazil and around the […]
Clique aqui para Português This article is part of RioOnWatch’s #VoicesFromSocialMedia series, which compiles perspectives posted on social media by favela residents and activists about events and societal themes that arise. This is the second article in what […]
Clique aqui para Português At age 64, Vanderley da Cunha, known as Deley de Acari, has been a poet, writer, human rights activist, and cultural mobilizer in the Acari favela, in the North Zone of […]
Clique aqui para Português In Rio de Janeiro, three black women from favelas who had worked for Marielle Franco prior to her assassination were elected as state representatives: Renata Souza (PSOL), a postdoctoral researcher in media […]
Clique aqui para Português This is the eighth article in an ongoing series on the Brazilian electoral political scene in 2018. The first of two rounds of voting for Brazil’s next president takes place this Sunday, October […]