The Owners of Rio Published: 6 June 2014 The Four Sisters, Brazils largest construction companies, are the big donors to political campaigns. And also they are the big winners, as a study showed: for every dollar donated the companies recieved 6.5 half dollars back in public works contracts. By Adriano Belsário, João Roberto Lopes Pinto and Rafael Rezende
The World Cup Must Be Sustainable – But This Is Mostly Rhetoric Published: 17 June 2014 The Brazilian government has planned a "sustainable World Cup". Great distances for the visitors and participants, and the immense construction works make it difficult to comply with the green agenda. Moreover: civil society actors have been largely ignored by the government initiative. By Julia Ziesche
Legal Actions or Unlawful Interventions? Published: 6 June 2014 The burden for Brazil's costly stadiums is mainly carried by the habitants of the poorest neighborhoods, the favelas. That the habitants generally had little or no formal education and were insufficiently informed of their rights was exploited by the authorities. By Lando Dämmer and Mara Natterer
To whom does the regulation of prostitution serve? Published: 23 June 2014 Analysts believe that the sex market will be very active during the World Cup. In Brazil, prostitution is not a crime, but it is not regulated as a profession either. By Nalu Faria
More Haste – Less Speed: How to Make Forests Work for the Climate and the People Published: 23 January 2008 A contribution of the Heinrich Böll Foundation on "avoided deforestation" for the UN climate summit in Bali 2007.
