By Stephen Eisenhammer, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The 22nd Police Pacification Unit (UPP) has been inaugurated for the favela communities of Adeus and Baiana, which neighbor Complexo do Alemão in Rio de Janeiro’s Zona Norte (North Zone), where pacification forces have struggled to curtail drug trafficking and violence. The inauguration was led [...]
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – In just over a month, the UN’s biggest ever international event on sustainable development, Rio+20, is set to bring together global leaders in Brazil to agree on specific goals and actions. The conference is an important moment for Rio, hosting a major international event, [...]
By Robbie Blakeley and Ségolène Poirier, Contributing Reporters RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The world football (soccer) governing body, FIFA, and the Brazil Ministry of Sport announced that the Brazilian government will have a permanent member within the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of the 2014 World Cup, as a measure to help avoid problems and [...]
By Fiona Hurrell, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Praça Nossa Senhora da Paz in Ipanema was at the center of a protest demonstration yesterday (Saturday 12th) against plans to remove 113 trees during the implementation of a new Metro subway line. The trees, which have been part of the park for decades, [...]
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has announced the names of those who will form the so-called “Comissão da Verdade” (Truth Commission) – a panel of former justice ministers, human rights secretaries, attorneys and social scientists set up to investigate the atrocities of the post-war and [...]
By Ben Tavener, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – The leaders of both France and Russia have confirmed they will be among the 100+ world leaders and 50,000 participants – from leaders of various social organizations to business figures – touted to be coming to attend the “Rio+20“, the UN’s high-profile conference on sustainable development, [...]
By Stephen Eisenhammer, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Another important step was taken Monday in Rio’s attempts to increase security in the city ahead of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, Rio+20, as the tourist police (BPTur) and the Federal University of Fluminense (UFF) inaugurated the first class of a new [...]
Stephen Eisenhammer, Senior Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – A member of the military police was photographed spraying a dog in the eyes with pepper spray while on patrol in the favela community of Rocinha, in Rio de Janeiro’s Zona Sul (south zone), Sunday morning. The incident has caused public outrage, with the photograph, [...]
By Fiona Hurrell, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Reports suggest thousands of people attended the controversial “Marijuana March” on Saturday afternoon in Rio’s Zona Sul (South Zone). The rally, which is now held in over 700 cities worldwide, celebrates Cannabis and defends the use of the drug as being part of a lifestyle [...]
By Ségolène Poirier, Contributing Reporter RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Yesterday Mayor Eduardo Paes presented the contents of the Museu do Amanhã (Museum of Tomorrow). He said the work will be the great icon of revitalization of the Port Zone, in Centro. During the presentation of the project, Paes once again defended the demolition of [...]
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