Tomorrow's Crises Today: Rio - fighting in the favelas

UN Habitat and IRIN | http://www.irinnews.org/pdf/in-depth/TomorrowsCrisesToday-Chapter6.pdf | September 2010

Issue:Marginalisation

'The sheer scale and chaotic construction of the favelas, which became home to hundreds of thousands of migrants, made them the ideal milieu for drug gangs to hide from the police and set up initially paternalistic, de-facto governments, albeit without any concrete political aims.'

This report explores the human insecurity issues that stem from rapid urbanisation, poverty, cultures of violence and ineffective governance.

Source: IRIN News

Image source: Tony the misfit

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Posted on 29/09/10