A large-scale deployment by the Police in various Rio de Janeiro favelas (slums) has left at least seven people dead after gunfights between law enforcement officers and suspected criminals ...

Three thousand troops backed by helicopters and armoured vehicles occupied Rio de Janeiro's largest favela (slum) without firing a shot, the biggest step in the Brazilian city's bid to improve ...

Damaged structures are seen during a police operation to demolish properties allegedly belonging to drug trafficker Alvaro ...

Some 17 million people in Brazil live in favelas—informal settlements in ... a local initiative in Rio de Janeiro's Cidade de Deus slum into a rapidly expanding operation that introduced a ...

Favela Gay tells the story of eleven individuals in their own words Living in eight slums favelas in Rio de Janeiro these members of the LGBTQ community two transgender women a crossdressing man a ...

Brother Fabio preaches at a church in Santa Marta, one of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. What he means is that the citizenry of Santa Marta is part of a plan to clean up the hillside slums for the ...

Favela Cloud Turns A Rio Slum Into An Architectural Heaven Architects propose a new way of looking at high-density urban slums: making space evoke a walk in the clouds.

Among them is Joelma Souza, a mother of five from one of Rio's favela slums, who travels a long distance to find some respite from the heat. "This year is worse than other years. It's terrible.

And what may be de ned as a slum will vary from country to country. If you look at a photo of a Brazilian favela for example, you will wish you were able to drag that photographer by the collar ...