A large-scale deployment by the Police in various Rio de Janeiro favelas (slums) has left at least seven ... Comando Vermelho (Red Command), one of Brazil's largest drug trafficking organizations.

Life in the favelas ... women list in 2017, who works to promote inclusion and peace in her community through sports. Drika was born and raised by her grandmother in Sergipe, northern Brazil.

A large-scale deployment by the Police in various Rio de Janeiro favelas (slums ... Thousands of Brazilian army troops raided Rio de Janeiro slums in a pre-dawn crackdown on crime gangs over ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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." ...