Brazil Housing Rights Violations Analysis

Ever since its inception in 1896, the Modern Olympics has hosted an invisible sport: politics. The Olympics calls for “a halt to all conflicts … [and to] strive towards a more peaceful world,” but politics soon spoiled its biennial message. “As the Olympics continue to dissolve into … a political competition … they no longer … justify the time and trouble,” Dave Anderson, Pulitzer Prize winner for his sports column, wrote in the New York Times in 1984. The Olympic spirit has routinely been used as an outlet for political agendas. With political and Olympic ambitions intersected, the great international sports festivity negatively affects all nations involved.

Contrasting to Document 1, by Caio Megale from What did the World Cup do to Brazil’s economy? about why having the World Cup in Brazil is ultimately a great benefit to Brazil, Document 2, by Paul Dimeo from Hosting Major Sports Events: Hidden Costs and Policy Dilemmas, believes that the harms of hosting a major sporting event in no way outweigh the negatives. Overall, Document 2’s argument is stronger because of the author’s more effective use of inflammatory language, use of statistics, and outside sources, even though Document 1 does have a much stronger credibility. These articles, though, find very similar neutral effectiveness of reasoning and addressing counter arguments.

Cities are supposed to provide opportunities for individuals, but in reality, there is a split between the wealthy and poor. In South America, a poor neighborhood, Las Tunas, is squeezed between three private neighborhoods. Although this should be good merging the poor with the wealthy, there is an impeccable difference. Las Tunas does not have drinkable water, sewers, natural gas facilities, or 24 hour medical services. Whereas, the neighborhoods that are next to Las Tunas have access to all of these basic life needs. So why doesn’t Las Tunas have the same benefits? The government decided to separate the poor community from the wealthy neighborhoods by inserting a wall in-between the neighborhoods. These walls have cameras installed along them to monitor that the poorer neighborhood is not bothering the wealthier. With Las Tunas having no sewers, “the last time this happened was during April and May. The floods carried away beds, clothes, children’s toys, among other things” (O’Boyle 2014). Throughout the world, inequality lies in cities, causing conflicts and uncooperative

A lot of organizations around the world devote their lives and forces to protecting human rights and preventing human rights violations. A lot of large organizations that have websites in which they declare human rights violations, and call for the prevention of situations both at the governmental level and on the primitive. Public opinion and support is very important for them, as they want to see that people still care. And, thanks to public activity, they can declare to human rights bodies, call for reforms.

One of the main challenges of the project is to convince the population of the favela that the benefits obtained by submitting to the state authority (security, recognized land ownership, access to education) are more important than costs (taxes, billing services, civil obedience)

Jakarta’s slums and Rio De Janeiro’s favelas have a lot of things in common. Both of their governments aren’t trying to make these living conditions better. They just keep them secluded in one area away from the wealthy parts of the city. It isn’t safe nor healthy for people to be living in contaminated water or on top of one another in unsteady shacks. People from around the world come to visit these towns because they find it interesting or attractive that people are living like this, instead of trying to help them they just admire the way they are living. Still to this day nothing is being done to improve this situation. Even though people are poor they shouldn’t have to be living like this because they are humans too. Everybody should be treated and looked at equally. Sometimes food is very scarce so people have to go nights without eating anything. No one should have to live there life like

To be ready to hosting the Olympic Games, the city’s life conditions must be convenient. Nonetheless, the Rio de Janeiro’s most residents’ life conditions are the worst. The index of Rio de Janeiro's population has led to a severe shortage of housing. Millions of people had to build their own houses from crowbar materials, such as wood, metals, sheet. That kind of temporary and

Since this change there has been a significant increase in drug related offences, a problem that the public health department has been unable to control. The parties and the festivities of the World Cup will be sure to increase illegal drug sales and consumption, without the funding to keep the issue under control. The money the nation is giving to FIFA for the World Cup could be used to better train law enforcement officials and establish security programs that would keep citizens safe. Brazil has become a nation that cannot provide the proper security for its citizens, but is quick to hand over 3.5 billion dollars to refurbish sports stadiums.

With about 6.32 million people living in Rio de Janeiro, and the World Cup around the corner with the Olympics trailing behind, these world sports fans who are planning to go to Rio de Janeiro are going to have to compete with one another on booking rooms. Recent University of Virginia’s alumni, Elliot Rosenberg’s Favela Experience business located in Rio de Janeiro launched in August of 2012 has immediately taken this time to advertise the commodities he can provide during the World Cup travelers’ stay.

In going forward with the research it is important to understand what Favelas actually are. In the Encyclopedia Brittanica Jeff Wallenfeldt describes Favelas as, “a slum or shantytown located within or on the outskirts of the country’s large cities, especially Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. A Favela typically comes into being when squatters occupy vacant land at the edge of a city and construct shanties of salvaged or stolen materials” (Wallenfeldt). At last census count there were 30 plus favelas in the city of Rio de Janeiro. There is almost 1.4 million people living in the Favelas of Rio (Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística). For most of the residents of Favelas, the Favelas act as a live, work, play environment. Most people own small businesses within the Favela.

“Most communities are not informed of the development projects before they are removed. They have no chance to debate and present alternatives. There is no place where you can see exactly who will be removed and how much they will be compensated for, and what the alternatives are to removal. That is, the right to information, transparency and participation of affected communities. These are the basic rights that make up the right to housing, and they are being systematically violated. For example the city enters the community, paints the houses with X and people do not know why.” (http://1mundoreal.org/residents-being-removed-for-world-cup)

On September 1st, 2006, the International Olympic Committee accepted the bid from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to host the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. The nation’s government proudly declared the news to the world, and began to prepare their nation to host one of the oldest and most prestigious sporting events in the world. Now that the dust has settled, many are beginning to question whether the hosting of the 2016 Olympic games was a blessing or a curse.

Hosting the games has always been a great honor so every four years cities from all over the world fight to be chosen as a host city. However, all the Olympics do is provide a platform for overspending and unnecessary waste. While it is a great honor, the social and economic burden presenting the games creates is too much for

As consequence of all those facts the population (all social classes got together) went to the streets of much of the most important cities in Brazil to protest against all those iniquities and shout out the government that they didn’t want that the world cup took place there. Those protest were so violent and cause many damages and the death of some police office and some

The Olympics is a sporting event that lasts about three weeks and is the gathering of the world’s best athletes that compete to earn worldwide recognition. Countless countries bid on the opportunity to hold such an occasion, however, billions of dollars are spent setting up and maintaining this event that will last less than a month. Many citizens argue the point that all that money could be used to better the rundown parts of the city instead of building new stadiums and extravagant facilities. Others state that hosting such an event is rare and will bring a large amount of revenue for the hosting city while also attracting worldwide attention.