ABSTRACT
This article proposes to investigate, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, from the point of view of the protection of fundamental rights, the new context that has been established with the pandemic in business relations: companies and workers, as well as urban policies such as basic sanitation, involving society's access to water and sewage, as well as in relation to urban peripheries, in particular, to the favelas, as an opportunity for reflection on the serious picture of social inequality and on the challenge that is imposed on Brazilian society to reason the city beyond the capitalist logic, recognizing a peripheral or subordinate urbanism as one of the powerful and inventive responses of the struggle for the right to the city. For this, the article brings alternatives such as administrative and tax reforms proposed by the Ministry of Economy, in order not to obliterate the protection of fundamental human rights, consecrating the principles of social protection and free initiative, among other guarantees fruit of the Federal Constitution of 1988. The method adopted in this analysis is the inductive, which, through observation of concrete cases, allows the theoretical exploration of a more comprehensive proposal as a general result for situations that fall within this context.