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Favela do Metrô terrorized through dawn (Brazil)

Published in Thursday May 10th, 2012 In Social movement news

May 9, 2012 RioOnWatch was the first news site to report on the brutal Favela do Metrô eviction back in November 2010. A year and a half later we revisit the scene to see how residents have faired. Slideshow is also available. Two years on from the first announcements that their houses would be cleared to make […]

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How the build-up to the World Cup and Olympics is affecting Rio’s favelas

Published in Tuesday April 24th, 2012 In In the media

Brazil is gearing up for the next World Cup and Olympics – but the country’s poorest say they are being swept aside in a tidal wave of forced evictions and human rights abuses in shanty towns known as favelas. And they say nobody is listening.

Brazilian Government Warranties for FIFA World Cup 2014

Published in Thursday April 12th, 2012

(Português) O documento assinado por diversos ministérios do Governo Brasileiro em 2007 elenca as diversas garantias que o país se compromete dar à FIFA para assegurar a realização da Copa do Mundo de 2014 conforme as exigência da instituição.

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Group plans to intensify protests against evictions ahead of 2014 World Cup

Published in Monday April 9th, 2012 In In the media

The Homeless Workers Movement, together with other groups, organized on Wednesday (April 4th) a series of protests across the country in order to draw attention to the problems caused by the 2014 World Cup projects, specially regarding the evictions of “thousands of working families”. The goal is to denounce the removal of families and the creation of laws for the mega events on 2014 and 2016.

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Brazil: Navy Surrounds Quilombo Community Slated for Eviction

Published in Thursday March 15th, 2012 In In the media

Quilombo Rio de Macacos in Bahia, one of the oldest communities of descendents of slaves in Brazil, woke up enclosed by military police threatening their eviction on Sunday morning, March 4, 2012.

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Published in Wednesday January 19th, 2005 In Reports

Special Rapporteur Miloon Kothari conducted a mission to Brazil from May 29 to June 13, 2004 and was impressed with the demonstration of political will of the then newly elected government and the unprecedented support it obtained from civil society groups. The challenges observed were significant, especially the situation of the homeless and the high […]

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