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River Clean-Up Strengthens Land Rights Fight in Horto Favela

By Emerson de Souza, Taísa Sanches • Translation by Constance Malleret • May 11, 2021

Clique aqui para Português This article is part of a series created in partnership with the Behner Stiefel Center for Brazilian Studies at San Diego State University, to produce articles for the Digital Brazil Project on human rights […]

Evictions Museum Launches Tour Evoking Memories of Olympic Evictions at 12th ‘Museum Spring’

By Taísa Sanches • Translation by Sharonya Vadakattu • October 9, 2018

Clique aqui para Português On the afternoon of September 23—which marked the beginning of Spring—residents of Vila Autódromo, activists, supporters, and nearly fifty visitors attended ‘Museum Spring’ at the Evictions Museum, reaping the fruits of a project that […]