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The Guardian - Once in decline, killings by police in Rio de Janeiro are on the rise as the Olympic games...
Institute for Security Studies - The 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations (UN) last...
Council on Foreign Relations - Around the world, social media is being colonized not just by extremist...
Folha de S. Paulo - Com dez das quinze economias mais desiguais do mundo localizadas na região, inclusão,...
Los Angeles Times - Brazilian security personnel are not the only ones preoccupied with security thr...
Estadão - Robert Muggah, referência em pesquisas de tráfico de armas, cobra ação da empresa sobre venda...
The Guardian - Few cities are more dangerous for civilians than San Pedro Sula in Honduras
Carta Capital - Crítico ferrenho da descriminalização do uso de entorpecentes, ministro do Desenvolvimento...
TED Ideas - Cities are the the 21st century’s dominant form of civilization - and they’re where humanity’s...
The Hill Times - Migrants to Canada are routinely prosecuted for relatively minor offences and circulated...
Foreign Affairs - The United States' Deadliest Export
Thomson Reuters Foundation News - Cities are the frontline of twenty first century humanitarianism
The Economist - The country’s gangs specialise in extortion. But they may be branching out
International Business Times - In the midst of political volatility, a deep recession and a frightening...
The Guardian - The fact is that in spite of decades of pursuing a “drug free world”, drugs are more accessible...
World Economic Forum - The world is moving to the city. No part of the planet is urbanizing faster than...
A brazilian state judge ordered mobile phone operators to block nationwide the extremely popular WhatsApp...
The Boston Globe - Brazil's friendishly complicated political and economic crises are sending the country...
SABC - Over the past weekend, the ruling party was the first to launch its much anticipated election...
Associated Press - An open letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon signed by more than 1,000 pe...
Documento foi enviado ao secretário-geral da ONU, Ban Ki-moon
The Hill Times - What makes a city prone to instability is often surprising
CBC - New app allows live streaming to help track murderous criminals — and killer cops
Valor Econômico - Em 1998, o slogan da Sessão Especial da Assembleia Geral das Nações Unidas (Ungass,...
World Economic Forum - High-profile attacks on major cities in Belgium, France and the United States...
The Economist - The thorny task of comparing crime rates across the world is tricky because legal interpretations...
Open Canada - The world is urbanizing at breakneck speed. But not all regions are moving at the same...
Outdated drug policies around the world have resulted in soaring drug-related violence, overstretched...
Los Angeles Times - El Salvador is the world's most violent country and its capital, San Salvador, is...
Virtually every government, business and civil society organization around the world has to contend with...
From ensuring women’s participation to shifting toward sustaining peace, here are top takeaways from...
Global Post - The news trickling out of Caracas just keeps getting worse. A recently published ranking...
Brazil would do well to support a comprehensive approach to stability and reconstruction in Syria as...
Carta Capital - Ao contrário do que dizem os críticos do Estatuto do Desarmamento, menos armas representam...
World Economic Forum - The world is urbanizing at a breakneck pace. But not all regions are moving at...
Open Democracy - Probably San Salvador's murder rate exceeds the violent death rate in many of the world's...
Americas Quartely - A new study shows narco-trafficking gangs are only part of the problem
Open Democracy - The question now is whether citizens will wake up only after it's too late
Igarapé Institute explains the reducing crime rates in the city and in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
Humanitarian Practice Network - A goal to foster peaceful, just and inclusive societies
World Economic Forum - More and more cities are being held hostage to the threat of terrorism
El País
January, 2016
Tentativas de cercear os direitos digitais dos brasileiros contrastam com a fama...
Brazilians take their social media very seriously. The country has one of the fastest growing populations...
It is hard to know with certainty where and why cities will falter and fail in the 21st century
Devex - It is hard to know with certainty where and why cities will falter and fail in the 21st cent...
The Guardian - Across the global development sector, a new narrative on the relationship between security...
El Siglo Durango - Un alto porcentaje de las armas que alimentan al crimen organizado en México llegan...
Al Jazeera - As drug gangs encroach on old turf, residents hope New Year brings lasting peace – and better...
Global Post - A considerable proportion of illegally acquired firearms in Mexico were originally sold...
The Guardian - This week, New York and LA reacted very differently to the same bomb scare. So how does...