In a Rio de Janeiro favela, a little boy wore a T-shirt stained with red paint mimicking the blood spilled this week in ...

Rio de Janeiro police have failed to take crucial investigative steps to determine the circumstances of the killing of at least 121 people, including four police officers, during a raid in low-income, ...

Now in its 8 th year, the UN SDG Action Awards, a signature programme of the UN SDG Action Campaign, is made possible in partnership with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International ...

Police in Rio de Janeiro have launched a massive operation in two favelas, resulting in 121 deaths, including four officers.

This week, we hold the line on more military strikes in the Caribbean and the Pacific, mull the conviction of a Bolivian drug ...

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Families of the scores of people killed in a deadly gang raid by Rio de Janeiro police began burying the ...

The Rio de Janeiro gang, the target of a bloody police operation, was born in prison almost half a century ago ...

The extraordinarily bloody episode shocked Rio, a city that is no stranger to scenes of gangs battling the police and each ...

BRAZILIAN police have been accused of decapitating a teenage gangster and hanging his head from a tree like a trophy in a ...

The awards recognized initiatives from Brazil, Nigeria, Turkey and the Democratic Republic of Congo for their work on equality, resilience and innovation.

Police conduct a operation against organized crime in the Mare Complex favela of Rio de Janeiro ...

A massive police operation against one of Brazil’s largest criminal organizations left 64 dead and 81 arrested in the ...