When police in Rio de Janeiro seize blocks of cocaine and bundles of marijuana they may well find them branded with a ...

Rocinha is the largest favela in Brazil. It is located in the southern ... Organised crime and gang violence are also common. Unemployment rates are high (up to 50% in 2016) and many people ...

The judge who is the most prominent face of Brazil's anti-corruption ... fight to tame runaway gang violence. Army patrols are already used in Rio's gang-ruled favelas, but a decree signed by ...

Innocent bystanders, primarily favela residents but also including ... human rights treaties ratified by Brazil. The perception that violence is out of control in Rio, that the city is overrun ...

A Voice of America team visited Rocinha, Brazil's most populated favela, in an attempt to show visitors from around the world a different side of the famous hillside neighborhood, which is openly ...

Brazil's Amazon has been experiencing a surge in violence as criminal gangs expand their presence in over a third of municipalities in the country's rainforest region, according to a report by the ...

Alan Duarte grew up surrounded by violence in a favela in Rio de Janeiro. His closest brother was killed in a shootout between drug gangs. At that moment, Alan decided to make a change ...

Without doing so, residents in many neglected favelas would otherwise ... difficult to be a Black woman in Brazil, and especially to be a victim of domestic violence because a lot of people ...