2019 | By Anne-Marie Veillette and Priscyll Anctil Avoine, this chapter emerges from the two fieldwork investigations conducted in Brazil (2016) and Colombia (2015). The first one, carried out in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, aims to understand and analyse the nature and the impacts of police violence, as well as resistance emerging in that context, based on women’s testimonies.

Classified as: Priscyll Anctil Avoine, RNWPS, Research Network on Women Peace and Security, Conflict studies, South America
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Published on: 27 Jan 2022

"A new virus invading parts of Central and South America and now the Caribbean is causing concern among people living in and travelling to infected countries. Transmitted by the aggressive Aedes mosquito, the Zika virus has spread to at least 23 countries and will likely infect tens of millions of people in a few short years." (CTV News)

Classified as: virus, Brazil, Philip Oxhorn, South America, brian ward, zika, Caribbean
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Published on: 27 Jan 2016
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