Olympic Games building firm, cult added to Brazil’s slavery ‘dirty list’
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThomson Reuters Foundation A company that helped build Rio de Janeiro’s Olympic village for the 2016 Games and a religious group that enslaved hundreds of people were named on Friday to Brazil’s “dirty list”, one of the country’s most powerful anti-slavery tools. The two were among 41 employers added to the roster […]
Rio de Janeiro expands unpaid prison labour program
Rio de Janeiro, BrazilThomson Reuters Foundation The government of Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state has expanded an unpaid work scheme for prisoners that human rights experts have denounced as illegal, official documents obtained exclusively by the Thomson Reuters Foundation show. Brazil’s penal system has long relied on cheap prison labour to maintain its facilities, with […]
PROFILE: “I PRAY EVERY DAY” SAYS RIO SLUM “WARRIOR” HEADING 15 YEAR LAND TITLE FIGHT
KARLA MENDES, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on one woman’s 15 year fight to improve her commununity in Rio’s slums…
ESSAY: IN BRAZIL, RELIGIOUS GANG LEADERS SAY THEY’RE WAGING A HOLY WAR
In an article first published on The Conversation, ROBERT MUGGAH, associate lecturer at the Pontifical Catholic Univesirty of Rio de Janeiro, writes about the role religion is playing in crime in Brazil…
Rio’s iconic Christ the Redeemer statue to get a facelift
RNS The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Rio de Janeiro has launched an international appeal for donations to help restore Christ the Redeemer, Brazil’s most famous statue, considered one of the new Seven Wonders of the World. “Christ the Redeemer, with its open arms, is the greatest showcase for Rio and Brazil,” said Cardinal Orani João Tempesta, the […]
RIO 2016: AN OLYMPIC GAMES FOR ALL?
In an audio interview from Rio, TOM ELLIS, of Passion for Sport, accompanies a local pastor as he speak’s with some of the city’s poor about their thoughts on the Games currently underway…