The UN Information Centre in Rio de Janeiro engages with local audiences in Brazil. Gizele Martins was born and raised in the Complexo da Maré, a group of 16 favelas (slums) with around 140,000 ...

Rio de Janeiro's famous favelas, the hillside slums that have been home to its poorest residents since the 19th century, are changing. The Brazilian state had given them up to the rule of brutal ...

The Brazilian flag flies over Rocinha, the most notorious favela which is home to 150.000 people Three thousand troops backed by helicopters and armoured vehicles occupied Rio de Janeiro's largest ...

The queue snakes around the block and each day it gets longer: hungry residents of Heliopolis, São Paulo's largest favela ... babies dying of Covid-19 in Brazil? Covid vaccines: How fast is ...

It's as if the 13 million people who live in slums in Brazil don't exist. There's been no policy to look after the country's favelas, we're being left to fend for ourselves." The residents are ...

An Australian man who went viral in Brazil for befriending gangsters in Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous favela says he wants to use his notoriety to help children he met in the slum. Hugo Cary ...

In Brazil, soccer is a way of life and part ... Competition for fields in the slums, or "favelas," can be fierce in the afternoons and evenings as kids want to play after school and adults play ...

Brazil expects over half a million foreign tourists. Given the crime rate in Rio, local officials have declared war on major offenders, primarily the drug lords, in their numerous "favelas." ...

Sao Paulo's second-largest favela, showcases the work of Estevao Silva da Conceicao, who has spent four decades building a unique castle that has earned him the nickname "the Brazilian Gaudi." ...

delivery workers for Brazilian start-up Favela Xpress dare to go where traditional companies won't: the slums. The firm launched in April in Paraisopolis, Sao Paulo's second-biggest "favela," a ...