The following videos include members from forcibly removed communities, or have been affected by the continual changes to their communities as a result of the infrastructural developments as a result of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games. Background: The Human Rights organizations “Witness,” which followed and fined part f the visit to the…
Rio World Cup demolitions leave favela families trapped in ghost town From the Guardian – Tom Phillips Preparations for the World Cup and Olympics are bringing unparalleled development to Rio de Janeiro. But this development is creating a series of new problems which government officials had either never envisioned, or don’t care to attend to.…
On Tuesday, October 26 residents representing at least 10 of Rio’s low-income communities (favelas) took to the streets in peaceful protest. The demonstration was in response to the City’s frenzied decision, led by mayor Eduardo Paes, to return to the dormant policies of forcefully evicting entire favela communities that are located in prime real-estate or…
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