The Brazilian Winter
For the original full post in Portuguese by Dodô Azevedo on G1 click here. June 14, 2013 João do Rio, the famous nineteenth-century Carioca journalist and writer, used to say that to learn the facts […]
For the original full post in Portuguese by Dodô Azevedo on G1 click here. June 14, 2013 João do Rio, the famous nineteenth-century Carioca journalist and writer, used to say that to learn the facts […]
Last Friday morning, May 17, nearly 100 students, researchers and scholars gathered at the State University of Rio de Janeiro’s (UERJ) Social and Policy Studies Institute (IESP) in Botafogo to discuss the Pacifying Police Units (UPP), youth and […]
On Thursday morning, April 11th, approximately 400 protesters representing various social and political movements marched from Largo do Machado to the Palácio Guanabara in Laranjeiras to demonstrate against the privatization of Rio’s historic Maracanã stadium. […]
For original article in Portuguese on Yahoo! click here. Article by Raquel Rolnik, Special Rapporteur to the UN on Adequate Housing. At this point, it does not take writing a thesis or doctoral dissertation to identify the profound […]
Democracy has strayed far from its origin as a system of governance giving all citizens equal access to decision-making authority and the opportunity to serve in office. Modern day political campaigns not only entail budgets reaching […]