"Dona Edir, Dona Edir" - the call is heard frequently in the narrow lanes of Canaa, a slum on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro.
It is for Edir Dariux Teixeira, who is well known among the residents, having spent more than a third of her life trying to improve infrastructure and basic services in the ramshackle settlement.
At the heart of that fight are legal property titles to the residents' homes - or, more accurately, the lack of them.
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