Life in Slums (“Favelas”): Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

By Jailson de Souza

e Silva Abril/2014

Slum (Favela): what place is it ?

Favela: what place is one (this)? •  There are more than 700 slums in

the Rio of January. •  The Slums were built the

beginning of the century XX. •  Poor people were occupying

public or devaluated areas .

•  The slums had a great growth from the decade of 60.

•  There are many kinds of slums.

•  In general, they are precarious services and urbane equipments.

Slum: what place is it ? •  The population: •  black people and people

migrates from Northeast and other poor areas of Brazil.

•  Labor manual, in general •  Little Education •  Low salaries •  40 % of the families led

only by women •  Many men are murder

every year.

Favela: what place is one (this)? •  The life in the slums: •  High degree of

solidarity •  Collective

organization for conquest of common services.

•  The "party" as common practice in the daily life

•  High degree of creativity and resistance to the repression

Violence in Rio de Janeiro City

•  The violence is the biggest problem in Slums, in Rio de Janeiro and the other Big Centers in Brazil.

•  The police in Rio de Janeiro, untill 2008, murdered 5 times more people each year than all U.S.’s police in the same period. Now, it kill oficially 400 people each year.

Violence in Rio de Janeiro City

Reasons: •  Economical growth

separated from the rate of job

•  Absence of the state in areas social and economical critical

•  Increase the drug trafficking in the slums.

The violence in Rio de janeiro is different between Rich Areas and the Slums

2004

The incidence of murders in Rocha Miranda, in 2004, was 36 times bigger than in Copacabana.

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Fonte: Data-SUS, Ministério da Saúde

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Branca Preta e Parda

1.  The state should considerate that all citizens are the same before the law

2. Respect the human rights, with the reform of the police 3. Presence of state in the whole city, inclusive in the

slums. 4. Reduction of the criminality and dissolution of the

criminal groups 5. Integrated projects of local development in the slums –

global, long duration and result of partnership of the Government, Civil Society, local Population and Privates Companies.

A new Public Security for slums

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•  THANK YOU!!!!!! •  OBRIGADO!!!!!!!!!!!