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Between 2005 and 2014, 8,466 cases of killings by police were recorded in the state of Rio de Janeiro. While this overall rate began to fall in 2010, there was a 39.4 percent increase in resistance killings in Rio de Janeiro state between 2013 and 2014. [12]
The Earth Summit was a UN event.. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Rio de Janeiro Conference or the Earth Summit (Portuguese: ECO92, Cúpula da Terra), was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992.
A series of floods and mudslides took place in January 2011 in several towns of the Mountainous Region (Região Serrana), in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro.Casualties occurred in the cities of Nova Friburgo, Teresópolis, Petrópolis, Bom Jardim, Sumidouro and São José do Vale do Rio Preto. [3]
On 3 July 2018, failed Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista was convicted of bribing former Rio de Janeiro governor Sérgio Cabral for state government contracts, having paid Cabral US$16.6 million, and was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment.
At the rear of Rio de Janeiro's polluted Guanabara Bay, thousands of mangroves rise as tall as 13 feet (about 4 meters) from a previously deforested area. The 30,000 trees, planted by non-profit ...
Two suspects in the case were placed in custody on Monday, authorities said. Arrest warrants are pending for four others. Rio de Janeiro police arrest 2 men in gang-rape case
President Dilma Rousseff said, through the Presidential spokesman, that she was "shocked" and "appalled" and that she spoke on the phone with Sérgio Cabral Filho, the State Governor, and with Eduardo Paes, the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, [52] The Education Minister, Fernando Haddad, spoke at the end of the morning, saying that the case was "a ...
Organized crime is intrinsically intertwined with Greater Rio de Janeiro's history, growing with the development of the cities zones and their favelas.Rio de Janeiro is unique in that it has some of its wealthiest, tourist-driven communities located nearby neighborhoods that face high proportions of violence and criminal presence.