A police operation in Rio de Janeiro slums known as favelas aimed at “locating and arresting members of criminal groups” has left 10 people killed, according to local media reports ...

As the Rio Olympics approach, a major issue has been security in a city where violence has long plagued hundreds of slums. The bloody reality was all-too-familiar to AP’s Rio staff: stories of ...

Rio de Janeiro's famous favelas, the hillside slums that have been home to its poorest residents since the 19th century, are changing. The Brazilian state had given them up to the rule of brutal ...

The Brazilian government will spend 1.7 billion dollars to bring running water and other basic services to Rio de Janeiro slums to counter drug gangs that control many of the poor areas ...

Within 15 hours of Trump's executive order, transgender troops and advocates filed a lawsuit alleging that the new restrictions are violating constitutional guarantees of equal protection.

Rio is a sprawling metropolis, filled with makeshift communities known as favelas (loosely translated as "slums"). Some favelas are so large that you could consider them cities inside the city.

Brother Fabio preaches at a church in Santa Marta, one of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas. What he means is that the citizenry of Santa Marta is part of a plan to clean up the hillside slums for the ...

Mario Azevedo, Chief of Police, 21st Police Precinct, Rio de Janeiro “Police institutions ... residents of one of Rio’s infamous hillside slums, or favelas, were killed. We also document ...

A man went into cardiac arrest and died while waiting in an urgent care center in Rio de Janeiro, health authorities said. José Silva visited the medical facility in the Cidade de Deus slum on ...

Favela Gay tells the story of eleven individuals in their own words Living in eight slums favelas in Rio de Janeiro these members of the LGBTQ community two transgender women a crossdressing man a ...