SOL NASCENTE, Brazil (AP) — The buzzing main avenue of this poor Brazilian neighborhood is filled with people popping off buses after work or grabbing a bite. Teens attend an open-air rap battle and ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — This kind of battle was good news for the impoverished, sometimes violent Cidade de Deus favela in Rio de Janeiro: a rap duel in a local bar held for the first time since the ...

The economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic has hit especially hard in Brazil’s favelas, but the country’s 10 biggest slums now have a plan to fight back: they are launching their own bank. Dubbed ...

CU Boulder sociologist Molly Todd finds that community newspapers were vital for people living in Brazil’s favelas during the COVID-19 pandemic When the COVID-19 pandemic hit Rio de Janeiro in early ...

When Brazilian João Victor Gonçalves began playing soccer in one of Rio de Janeiro ’s poorest and most violent favelas, ...

A quarter of Rio de Janeiro's population lives in slums, or favelas, yet too often those very people are left feeling marginalized. Wracked by drug and gang-related violence and stricken with poverty, ...

A favela is an informal urban settlement in Brazil - historically defined by precarious land tenure, self-built housing and a dense, working-class community. The 2022 IBGE census officially renamed ...

The award-winning social entrepreneur will launch a new fund aimed at technology businesses from Brazilian slums. One of Brazil's best-known social entrepreneurs, Celso Athayde, is at the cusp of a ...

The United Nations Department of Global Communications (DGC) promotes global awareness and understanding of the work of the United Nations through its network of United Nations Information Centres ...

SOL NASCENTE, Brazil — The buzzing main avenue of this poor Brazilian neighborhood is filled with people popping off buses after work or grabbing a bite. Teens attend an open-air rap battle and ...