Complexo do Alemão Favela Protests After Ten-Year Old Killed
Residents of Rio's Complexo do Alemão made a protest calling for peace in the community after the death of Eduardo...
April 6, 2015Topic
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Controversy Over Olympic Golf Course Continues in Rio
Controversies about the construction of the Olympic golf course, part of which lies in an environmentally protected area in Barra...
March 26, 2015
Peaceful Protest in Rio Took Over Copacabana Beach
In Rio de Janeiro around 15,000 people protested against the government of President Dilma Rousseff and the recent money laundering...
March 16, 2015
MST Landless March to Protest Brazil’s Agribusiness Model
Protests this year are led by women peasants who are also protesting the traditional domination of men in the fields.
March 12, 2015
Protests Against President Rousseff Announced for Sunday in Brazil
Now, a new protest wave has been announced against her politics in all major Brazilian cities for Sunday, March 15th.
March 12, 2015
Twelve People Hit by Stray Bullets in Rio Over Last Ten Days
Since the beginning of the year, various cases of people hit by stray bullets within the Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan...
January 26, 2015
UN Envoy Calls for Change in Brazil’s Prisons
Extreme violence conducted by criminal gangs inside jails highlights problems with Brazil’s penal system.
September 2, 2014
Annual March in Rio Protests Racial Violence by Police
Report indicates 146.5 percent more blacks than whites died in Brazil in 2012 in situations such as homicides, traffic accidents...
August 26, 2014
Marcha das Vadias 2014 SlutWalk in Rio: Daily
On August 9th, approximately four hundred people gathered in Copacabana, Rio de Janeiro for Marcha das Vadias 2014, the Brazilian...
August 10, 2014