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Los datos actualizados de la plataforma EVA muestran un aumento del 22% en las tasas de violencia sexual...
País registra un aumento en todas las formas de violencia no letal contra las mujeres
Las cifras de 2023...
A new report by the FACT Coalition found that many investigations into environmental crimes do not follow...
Political violence is hardly new to America. Since the country’s inception, gunmen have shaped its political...
I am writing from Cali, Colombia, where COP16, the UN Biodiversity Conference, is taking place. Among...
This Monday (28th), the International Advisory Panel on Biodiversity Credits (IAPB), composed of 25 organizations...
Under Brazil’s presidency, the social agenda of the G20 has gained significant focus this year, with...
Homicides in the metropolitan area with Argentina’s highest crime rate have decreased this year...
The Ministry of Justice, through the Drug Policy Directorate, reported that 54 species in Colombia are...
For the second year in a row, record-breaking drought in the Amazon has caused environmental havoc and...
This is the second article in a series on the challenges and opportunities of the urban Amazon. Read...
Robert Muggah: “El crimen organizado está haciendo metástasis y América Latina está pagando el costo”
La...
BOGOTA/RIO DE JANEIRO Aug 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A new U.S.-backed initiative to disrupt...
With the announcement by the US of a new initiative to counter the illicit financing of environment crime...
Alejandro Eder llegó a la Alcaldía de Cali con la promesa trabajar por la seguridad. La propuesta que...
Las ciudades son un referente del progreso de las naciones. Cuando ellas prosperan, también lo hacen...
Colombia es un país rico en biodiversidad y con una historia marcada por conflictos, hoy se encuentra...
Relentless climate change and biodiversity loss are pushing the world’s ecosystems to the brink of collapse....
“Behind this destruction there are out-of-control forest fires, the expansion of the agricultural frontier,...
Since PORTUGUESE colonisers first appeared, the story of indigenous Brazilians has been littered with...
RIO DE JANEIRO – Transnational organized crime is a paradox: ubiquitous yet invisible. While criminal...
New Capacity Building and Information Sharing Efforts Will Help Protect the Amazon
WASHINGTON,...
As Haiti has again plunged into violent chaos, images of gang members bearing high-powered rifles, pump-action...
La decisión fue adoptada tras una reunión en Jamaica con representantes de otros socios internacionales...
Armed gangs in Haiti demanding the prime minister’s resignation have attacked two prisons, allowing...
The situation in Haiti It seems to be getting more and more complicated. Recently, it was learned that...
Haiti, a Caribbean nation with a long history of upheaval, is enduring one of its worst periods of chaos.
Gangs...
Homicide rates are skyrocketing in Ecuador with official figures recording a death count of 4,800 in...
Brazil’s stewardship of the world’s largest tropical forest has long ignited acrimony
The artificial intelligence race is gathering pace, and the stakes could not be higher.
Whether it was gold, diamonds, or iron, the history of Brazil has been shaped for centuries by the hunt...
If Chinese lending declines, sub-Saharan Africa’s ability to raise financing will be deeply affected...
Even before taking office in January 2023, Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva promised to end...
Illegal deforestation, wildcat mining, drug trafficking, and lethal violence: Name your scourge and the...
Nicaragua’s crackdown on the political opposition, free press, and civil society is intensifying.
Recent months may well be remembered as the moment when predictive artificial intelligence went main...
In late January, harrowing pictures from the Yanomami Indigenous reserve began popping up on Brazilian...
Even as the armed forces and police broke up the 8 January insurrection in Brasilia, carting more than...
Cybercrime is high on the agenda of nation states, corporations and international organizations ever...
In the years leading-up to the outbreak of genocide in Darfur, in 2003, median rainfall plummeted by...
Between July 25 and 29, UN member states gathered in New York for the third substantive session of the...
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Safer cities
If cities are where the future happens first, then the future came early to Bogota
It can seem like climate change affects all communities equally
What is Canada’s place in the new Great Game, over the control of critical minerals and rare earths?
It all began with a bureaucratic assignment on Jan. 12, 1830.
The world is confronting multiple intersecting geopolitical events with highly unpredictable consequ...
Agriculture has come a long way in the twenty-first century.
Any hope of keeping global temperatures under 2C depends on the acceleration of radical climate action...
Ravaged by a pandemic, a brutal war in Europe, and rising social unrest over unaffordable food and fuel,...
Russia’s motives for invading Ukraine vary from security fears to revisionist historical claims that...
The spread of Brazil’s gangs into the Amazon is hardly new.