Clique aqui para Português Around 5 o’clock this morning, Friday October 23, the Municipal Guard policing force and government representatives arrived in Vila Autódromo, the community bordering the Olympic Park in Rio’s West Zone, to demolish more homes in the […]
With 500 days to go until the start of the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games, residents of Vila Autódromo took to the street to protest against the City’s latest decree of eminent domain to list […]
For the original in Portuguese on Pela Moradia click here. Families occupy the steps of the Finance Ministry building in downtown Rio. Approximately 50 people, residents of the Horto and Vila Autódromo communities, along with the […]
Clique aqui para Português For the original article by Raquel Rolnik, Special Rapporteur to the UN on Adequate Housing, in Portuguese click here. On Wednesday, August 16, 2012, residents of the community of Vila Autodromo, in Rio […]
Clique aqui para Português On February 6, 2019, a storm fell over Rio de Janeiro in the late afternoon and lasted until dawn. According to the final report following the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) […]