Canada is making big strides when it comes to COVID-19 housing policy, but permanent measures and oversight lag behind compared to some global efforts.
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COVID-19 is spreading fast through not only the world’s richest cities but also its poorest, ravaging slum areas where risk factors like overcrowding and poverty accelerate disease transmission.
Criminal gangs, insurgents and terrorist groups seek to protect the people in the areas they govern, when a central government’s power is weak or nonexistent.
Black lives in Brazil are devalued and subject to violence on a horrific scale.
As hard-line Pentecostalism spreads across Brazil, some drug traffickers in gang-controlled areas of Rio de Janeiro are using religion as an excuse to attack nonbelievers.
In Rio de Janeiro, a stray bullet kills or injures one person every seven hours.
The sounds and sights of Brazilian feminist funk.
In one bloody week in June, 181 Rio residents were shot, including a baby in utero. It’s now impossible not to notice that city’s once-lauded favela “pacification” strategy has all but collapsed.
By singing frankly about sex and life on the streets, the pioneering women of Rio de Janeiro’s funk scene are redefining what feminism sounds like.
Though police violence is widely tolerated in Brazil, not everyone believes in ‘eye for an eye’ as official state policy.
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Lecturer, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
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Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography, Environments, Geomatics, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester
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Coordinator, Center for Studies on Public Security and Citizenship (CESeC), Universidade Candido Mendes
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Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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Anthropology Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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Coordinator, Centre for Studies on Public Security and Citizenship, Universidade Candido Mendes
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Postdoctoral fellow, Brown University
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester
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Professor, University of Toronto
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Professor Emeritus, and Director of Housing Research Collaborative, University of British Columbia
