This present dissertation propose to analyze the forms of organization and resistance used by residents of the favela Rio das Pedras against the advance of the COVID-19 pandemic. The study has an exploratory character of a qualitative nature, based on bibliographical and field research, which was developed with semi-structured interviews carried out with community leaders, representatives of community communication and managers of public facilities. The theoretical-methodological framework considers the intensification of social, racial and gender inequalities in the pandemic with effects on the confrontation of the socio-sanitary phenomenon in Brazil. From a critical perspective, we reflect on questions pertinent to the conception of the right to the city, permeated by the contradiction of the realization of capitalist cities and, consequently, of Rio de Janeiro s favelas, with emphasis on the process of construction and consolidation of the favela of Rio das Pedras. Faced with the advent of the covid-19 pandemic, the dissertation analyzes its deepening in the Brazilian context, highlighting the impact of the pandemic in favelas, which historically are marked by the insufficiency of state interventions. The favela of Rio das Pedras, which, like the other favelas, was impacted by the COVID-19 virus and had to to get by to face not only health threats, but also economic, political and structural threats. The main results of the work turn to the realization that the COVID-19 pandemic revealed to the world social inequalities that historically impacted the lives of the most vulnerable populations, among these, the residents of favelas. Faced with the insufficiency of measures taken by the government to combat the virus, favela leaders and collectives organized themselves in defense of the survival of the population. In this context, it is concluded that it is important to defend the implementation of public policies in favela territories in dialogue with the potentialities present in these territories.