The sea, facing a favela in Brazil's northeastern city of Salvador, serves as a backdrop for the last photograph Vilma Alves ...

Paraisópolis is one of São Paulo’s largest and most notorious favelas, with more than 100,000 residents living in tightly packed hillside homes. The area has long been associated with organized crime, ...

As Brazilians head to the polls on Sunday for the second round of presidential elections, our correspondents take us to the ...

Some of the most important lessons from the recently concluded AIDS 2026 Conference were learnt not inside the conference halls, but on the steep hillsides of dangerous favelas (urban slums) in Rio de ...

Rio de Janeiro is a beautiful city but presents great security challenges, particularly for women colleagues who work inside poor neighborhoods, called favelas. These women face daily challenges to ...

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 ...

A woman sitting in the lotus position wears a shirt that reads in Portuguese, "Be strong like a mother from the outskirts" while meditating during a Transformation Project yoga class in the Rocinha ...

At first glance, it looks like any other shantytown in Brazil: a precarious jumble of tin-roof shacks and shoddy streets. But look closer, and the community garden, rainwater harvesting system and ...