Human Rights for Sale: The combined budget for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 is $40 billion. 

Chris Gaffney was the first activist I ever approached when starting this project in Rio back in 2010 when I recognized him from an Al-Jazeera segment I’d seen in my research. True to his style, Chris  provides a very thorough overview of the socio-political backdrop in which our story unfolds. 

“The state of exception that dominated the preparation for and realization of the World Cup radically impinged upon the constitutionally guaranteed right to housing. The stories are as innumerable and tragic as the human rights violations are grotesque.”

Read more from The traumas and dramas of post-Cup pre-Olympic Brazil by Chris Gaffney