Tag: favela

• “Brazil is Synonymous with Inequality”: Aerial Images Reveal Wealth Gap in Brazilian Cities

  December 29, 2020

  Most people are familiar with the concept of social and economic inequality, but although it affects a large part of the world’s population, it is still somewhat abstract for many… more ›

• ‘Instead of doctors, they send police to kill us’: locked-down Rio faces deadly raids

  May 18, 2020

  Maria Diva do Nascimento was worried as she set off for her job at one of Rio de Janeiro’s biggest hospitals wearing a face mask she hoped would keep her… more ›

• Ludmilla Teixeira, la riposte à Bolsonaro

  November 21, 2019

  PortraitFéministes ! (4/6). Sa lutte contre le président brésilien, « mysogine de la pire espèce », l’a propulsée comme figure de proue de la contestation citoyenne. A travers les réseaux sociaux,… more ›

• The women fighting back in Kenya’s biggest slum

  August 5, 2019

  Edita Ochieng and like-minded women are taking a stand against endemic sexual violence and police corruption in Kibera. Plus: Angelique Chrisafis on why climate protesters in France are stealing portraits… more ›

• Breaking the Circle These women are playing for huge crowds who love them

  April 21, 2019

  But in the 1930s, the Brazilian government began to recognize the power of samba, and looked to co-opt it as part of a new, unified national identity. The music once… more ›

• Rio: Beyond the Map

  November 2, 2017

  Rio: Beyond the Map » Explore images, artifacts and more in high resolution. more ›

• How the Rio slums helped inspire a start-up…

  March 28, 2015

  How the Rio slums helped inspire a start-up revolution The Agency, an initiative imported from Brazil’s favelas allows young people from deprived inner-city areas develop business ideas that benefit their… more ›