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[ April 30, 2025 ] Sustainable Favela Network Launches Groundbreaking ‘Favela Climate Memory’ Exhibition on May 3, Kicking Off Museums Month [RELEASE] *Highlight
[ April 20, 2025 ] ‘No One Wants to Hear How Much We Miss Them’: 20 Years After the Baixada Massacre, Families of Victims Report Poor Mental Health and Demand Psychosocial Support from the State #UPPWatch
[ April 14, 2025 ] ‘I Was Up All Night, Like Every Summer’: Storm Deepens Climate Anxiety and Sparks Outrage Among Favela Residents Across Greater Rio de Janeiro, Say #VoicesFromSocialMedia #MediaWatch
[ April 7, 2025 ] ‘Temporary’ Housing in Santa Cruz Turns 60: Reflecting on Cesarão, the First Housing Complex, and Favela do Aço #EvictionsWatch
[ March 30, 2025 ] Meet Dona Nete: The Acari Artisan Turning Waste Into Fashion and Championing Zero Waste in the Favela *Highlight

‘Favela Media Platforms Need to Unite’

By Michel Silva • Translation by Clara Lyra • April 20, 2018

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Michel Silva published by Favela em Pauta click here. The reason I got involved with journalism is noteworthy: I never felt represented by the way […]

Countdown to Brazil’s 2018 Elections, Part 2: Alternative Movements and Candidates

By Luisa Fenizola • Translation by Clara Lyra • March 1, 2018

Clique aqui para Português This is the second article in an ongoing series on the Brazilian electoral political scene in 2018. In a country in which half the population are women and over half are […]