DIGEST ARCHIVES

Favela News Digest Archives

Our regular RioOnWatch News Digest compiles, in one place, the latest news and opinion on Rio’s favelas from our community news site RioOnWatch, as well as what broader news sources have to say on Rio’s current favela trends. It’s a comprehensive summary of English-language favela news.

2026

March 1–31, 2026: Rio Mayor Sells Off Green Spaces | Marielle Case Revives Faith | Zero Participation Status Quo | Recording Dead Prior to Sale | Favela Youth Leaders

January 1–February 28, 2026: COP30 Full Rundown | Terrorizing Rains | Favelas X Fake News | Real Estate Speculation | Favela Queens | Inspiring Community Organizations

2025

November 15–December 31, 2025: 2025 Best Reporting on Favelas | People’s Movements Take COP30 | Our Letter on NPR | Architecture By and For Favelas

October 1–November 15, 2025: Sustainable Favela Festival | On NPR | C40 to COP30 | Indigenous and Favelas Raise Voices on Environment | Rio’s Deadliest Massacre

September 1–30, 2025: Favelas Teach How to Fish | Brazilians Defend Democracy | Climate Memory in Schools | Solution Profiles | Reparations at COP30 | Right to Expression

August 1–31, 2025: The Legacy of Cadu | Pioneering Elderly Care in Favela | 7 Years Building CLT Movement | Going Green to Fight Eviction | Brazil COP & National News

June 16–July 31, 2025: Brazil-wide News: Black Women Take On Violence | Collective Favela Solutions | Off the Hunger Map | Devastation Bill X COP30 | Tariffs X Democracy

April 1–June 15, 2025: Powerful Favela Memories | How to Save the Amazon OUT | Olympic Evictions Museum | To Be a Black Woman Museum Leader | Indigenous Voices Centered

March 1–31, 2025: Water Day Protest | Zero Waste Artisan | Trees + Pruning Save Favela Lives | Empowered Women | Indigenous Rights | No to Authoritarianism

February 1–28, 2025: Brazil’s African Ancestry Celebrated | Finally, an Oscar! | Grassroots Resistance & Culture Hit By Carnival Fire | Extreme Heat & Favela Solution

January 1–31, 2025: I’m Still Here & Favela Views of Brazil Dictatorship | Latest Favela Museum in Salgueiro | New Forced Eviction | Defense of Forest Favelas

2024

October 16–December 31, 2024: Year-End Special: Top 2024 Reporting on Favelas | Sustainable Favela Festival Success | G20 Against Hunger | NbS in Favelas | Justice 4 Marielle & Dom

September 1–October 15, 2024: 100 Favela Solutions RELEASE | Rio Elections Coverage | 5 Favela Councillors | Brazil on Fire | City Demolitions Are Back | Twitter (X) Ban

August 1–31, 2024: What’s Behind Brazil’s Olympians | Favela Fire | CLTs as Climate Solution | Agroecology | Finally Disappearing Maids’ Quarters | Lesbian Memories

2023

November 1–December 7: Favela CLT Turns 5 | Pejorative Label Revisited | Peripheral Literature | Dangerous Heat | Women in Politics | Favela Communications Pioneer

October 1–31: Urban October | Favelas as Heritage | Grassroots Media | Poetry Slam | Teaching on Africa | City as Hostage | Amazon Drought & Wetlands on Fire

August 1–September 30: Favela Climate Memory | Grassroots & Solar Solutions | Threats to Informal Work & Housing | Amazon Beef on NY Stock Exchange | Monkeys Theater

June 1–July 31: Victory for Favela CLTs | Exchange Among Indigenous, Favela, Quilombola Leaders | Water/Energy Justice Course Doc | 1 Year Without Dom & Bruno

April 1–May 31: Packed City Council Fights for CLTs | Energy Efficiency & Justice | Brazilian Harriet Tubman | Stop Favela Stigma in Fake News | COP30 in Brazil

2022

December 1–January 15, 2023: Best x Worst Media on Favelas 2022 | Sustainable Favelas Meet Up | Representation Matters | Lula’s Cabinet | Unpoliced Terror in Brasília

November 1–30: FNA Award | Favela Votes and Lula Mandate | COP27 from Brazil | 45th Anniversary of Path-Breaking Vidigal Resistance | Rio de Janeiro Wetlands

October 1–31: Brazil Election Today | Criminalization of Favelas | Housing as Political Chess | Hopeful Signs | Favela Newspapers

2021

November 1–December 31: Favelas at COP | Energy and Water Justice | Gardens | Unjust Urban Planning | Color of Mobility | Resistance in Arts & Housing | Pandemic Education

October 5–31: Rooting Anti-Racism | Brazil Worse Off | Favelas Double | Hope on Police Brutality | CLTs Reviewed by City Council | Theater as Transformation

2020

November 3–December 10: Today—Covid-19 in Favelas Press Conference | Guide to Museums & Memory | Black Feminist Pioneers | Favela Sustainability Endorsed | Municipal Election

2019

Sustainable Favela Network Meet-Up | Call It Genocide | Inspiring Solutions | Black Awareness | Peripheral Arts | Brazil Politics | Fires and Oil

2018

Sustainable Favelas | Polarizing Elections | Favela CLTs | Marielle Resists | Favela Museums of Resistance

2017–2011

Archives include reporting on sustainable communities, housing rights, evictions, community media, Olympic resistance, environmental justice, and the ongoing work of RioOnWatch and Catalytic Communities.