A large-scale deployment by the Police in various Rio de Janeiro favelas (slums) has left at least seven people dead after gunfights between law enforcement officers and suspected criminals ...

Religion serves as a powerful organizing force for crime gangs in Brazil and much of Latin America, offering a mixture of ...

Five favelas were targeted by around 1,300 police and 3,600 troops in a sweep starting at 4 a.m., the Rio state security service said in a statement. Their main goal was to stop gangs behind a ...

This area is a mix of 14 favelas together. Highly risky and dangerous, no tourists can go there,The mission was to be the ...

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Low-income favelas would benefit from green roofs but there are two problems: Cost. And a typical design that's too heavy for a favela home.

One victim was visiting Rio de Janeiro's iconic Christ the Redeemer statue."The guys there are afraid it is police or rival ...

In this report, Human Rights Watch/Americas documents instances of police brutality, including two massacres in which twenty-seven residents of one of Rio’s infamous hillside slums, or favelas ...

The rapid growth of Rio de Janeiro's population has led to severe crowding and a shortage of housing. This has led to the growth of shanty towns, which are called favelas in Brazil. Rocinha is the ...

The Favela Bairro Project (Favela Neighbourhood Project) began in Rio de Janeiro in 1994 and ran until 2008. It aimed to recognise the favelas as neighbourhoods of the city in their own right and ...

Away Days got special access to the Rio favelas, hanging out out with young foot-soldiers, speaking to commanders, and seeing how civilians live between the gangs and the equally violent police ...