It's a problem echoed in squatter settlements around the world. The shantytowns, known in Brazil as favelas, sprung up at the end of the 19th century as freed slaves sought to make their home on ...

The UN Information Centre in Rio de Janeiro engages with local audiences in Brazil. Gizele Martins was born and raised in the Complexo da Maré, a group of 16 favelas (slums) with around 140,000 ...

Complexo de Alemao has promoted favela tourism to generate ... One day, a junior gang member approached me and said ‘the man up there’ wanted to speak to me. In Brazil, that phrase normally ...

"As a Brazilian this 'visiting favelas' type of video drives me INSANE. You have no idea what truly happens there. Shootings, extreme poverty, drugs. Does that sound nice to you?" The government's ...

Mr Toal said: "She volunteered her phone to show ... Brazil. Laura Broome, mitigating, said her client was in a 'state of sheer desperation'. Ms Broome said: "That desperation was exploited. She ...

The Brazilian Federal Police announced that beginning ... can be cleaned from organized crime and the drug cartels operating mostly in the favelas, where millions of Brazilians live, next to ...

Then, just over a year ago, Ms. Silva started planting fresh produce on a patch of land not far from Cajueiro, the Rio de Janeiro favela where ... "We wanted to show it's possible to grow food ...

The film is made up entirely (or seemingly so) of archival footage of Grande Otelo (born Sebastião Bernardes de Souza Prata), ...

"It's my favourite police organisation, Bope," she says, proudly referring to the logo of Brazil's Special Police Operations Battalion. "They climb into the favelas ... was giving me a second ...

But that won’t be enough, Mr. Gakiya told me ... favelas,” he said. They live “in upper and middle-class condominiums. Maybe if the police looked there, they would find them.” Brazilian ...

While Anitta and Ludmilla lead the way to global pop, baile funk continues to flourish mostly in underground favelas ... Brazil closer to the Latin American industry with collabs such as "Me ...