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Brazil's favela residents are demanding a say in climate talks

The 2025 United Nations Climate Conference, known as COP30, opens tomorrow in Belem, Brazil. Ahead of the official meetings, community members from Rio's favelas, its lowest-income neighborhoods, have ...
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The favela couriers who put their community on the map in Brazil

Paraisópolis, one of São Paulo’s largest favelas, rises up the hillside in a dense, improvised sprawl. Homes stand shoulder to shoulder, some painted in bright colors, others left in bare brick.
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Favela rising [videorecording] / Thinkfilm & HBO/Cinemax Documentary films ; Jeff Zimbalist, Matt Mochary ; produced and directed by Jeff Zimbalist and Matt Mochary

Originally released as a motion picture in 2005. Documentary. Bonus features: Behind the documentary ; AfroReggae music video. Documents how former drug-trafficker Anderson Sa, and Jose Junior's Grupo ...
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Brazilian Church campaigns for housing policies, seeks to expand presence in favelas

Illuminated by a motorcycle headlight, youth perform a street dance known as passinho in the Rocinha favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 11, 2024. (Credit: Silvia Izquierdo/AP.) Listen SÃO PAULO – ...
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Brazil's favela residents are demanding a say in climate talks

As Brazil prepares to host COP30, residents of Rio de Janeiro's favelas are mobilizing to make sure the voices of the world's informal settlements aren't left out of global climate talks. The 2025 ...