The Pacifying Police Unit

The land became a village.

Due to a traffic jam, we were late in getting to a slum, a large slum, which had caught fire.

Let's go all over the world and photograph every single slum around the world.

So, that's Kibera, the largest squatter community in Nairobi.

I had an office in those days which bordered a slum, an urban slum, so there was a dividing wall between our office and the urban slum.

You know, I like to call it the national automobile slum.

After that day, everyone in the favela gave me the green light.

In this photograph a hostile crowd in a slum surrounds him.

What's the most dangerous slum in Rio de Janeiro?

Five Points was not the only slum in America.

The world's largest slum city is in Mexico City.

Five Points slum used to be a lake named Collect.

Our first school was on a rooftop of a building inside the slums, a second story building, the only second story building inside the slums.

This is Kibera, which is the largest slum in East Africa.

It is an irresponsible action which treats the favela like a battlefield.

To live, the poor built shanty towns within easy commute to work.

City Hall was constructed in the former slum area of Vika, from 1931 1950.

The picture on India is the Dharavi slum of Mumbai in India.

And so in Providencia, for example, in the favela, we have a controlled center running there.

Utoro was labeled a Joseon slum among Kyoto residents.

Residents of Favela do Moinho demonstrating their solidarity. Photo by Caio Castor. Used with permission.

The favela awoke to find itself occupied by the BOPE, the Riot Police and the National Security Force.

This is Hosinia, the largest and most urbanized favela in Rio de Janeiro.

The slum built on the railroad reservation between the sea and the railroad tracks was completely swept away.

It was in places like this. This a school set up by some nuns in another slum called Nakuru.

Today, Five Points slum has transformed into the Little Italy and Chinatown neighborhood of New York City.

Rio de Janeiro documented its first slum in 1920 census.

Size Rocinha is the largest favela in Brazil and one of the most developed.

This is the squatter community in Sanjay Gandhi National Park in Bombay, India, what's called Mumbai these days.

The Project 5X Favela , which aims to teach young people from the favelas (slums) of Rio de Janeiro how to work in the movie business, presented its first feature film, 5X Favela Now by ourselves at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival on 18th May.

But I can assure you that this woman in the favela in Rio, she wants a washing machine.

And he's been working with this young group of men who come from the largest slum in the world, Kibera.

The first Parikrma school started in a slum where there were 70,000 people living below the poverty line.

For hours afterwards, the sea was strewn with bits of wood for miles around all of this was from the houses in the slum.

Many dwellers did not sleep during a night of shootouts, and at the time of finalizing this article, the slum remains occupied but calm.

'Titan Kids' is a documentary about the kids of Titanzinho, a slum in the city of Fortaleza, Brazil.

After filming, the crew could not leave the cast to return to their old lives in the favelas.

It grew to become a part of the greater Caracas area as the latter expanded in area and population.

I want to introduce you to a good friend of TED who just happens to live in Africa's biggest shantytown.

In fact what is necessary is for the democratic rule of law to be established in the pacified favela.

On 11 December 2010, violence erupted in a shanty town in the Parque Indoamericano in Villa Soldati.

Cenas da favela as melhores histórias da periferia brasileira Rio de Janeiro, Geração Editorial, 2007, p. 118 130.

The slum people live in a dirty environment. They are deprived of fresh food, water and good shelter.

Dias de Souza was arrested on July 14, 2013 in Rocinha, known as the largest slum in the world, by agents of the Pacifying Police Unit (UPP). The agents claim he was released shortly after, but Dias de Souza hasn't been seen since.