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Far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who has presided over the world's second worst coronavirus...
Brazil has now surpassed a million COVID-19 cases, a grim milestone for the country with the second most...
Brazil is poised to overtake the United States for most total COVID-19 infections and deaths globally...
«I can’t breathe!» «Jeg får ikke puste!» George Floyds siste ord er blitt slagordet for en verdensomfattende...
“I can’t breathe.” The final words gasped by George Floyd are now a global meme. They were recorded on...
Maria Diva do Nascimento was worried as she set off for her job at one of Rio de Janeiro’s biggest hospitals...
The coronavirus pandemic is exposing the quality of governments around the world. Many national leaders...
Having ravaged some of the world’s wealthiest cities, the coronavirus pandemic is now spreading into...
The first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic may be receding in some parts of Western Europe, East Asia and...
Head of Igarape Institute in Rio de Janeiro gives us more on the absurd situation in Brazil, due to the...
To say that COVID-19 changes everything is already a cliché. But it’s also true.
Increased time inside close quarters during the coronavirus pandemic is causing some urbanites to consider...
Carta Conjunta sobre a situação dos Yanomami e Ye'kwana no contexto da pandemia do COVID-19
Following the recent ouster of Brazil’s popular justice minister, Sergio Moro, the world’s fourth-largest...
As the novel coronavirus spreads throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, social media have been rife...
After a temporary lull brought about by sweeping Coronavirus quarantine measures, violence is increasing...
Cities are at the center of this pandemic, as they have been during so many plagues in history.
The COVID-19 pandemic is painfully exposing the world's many interconnected fragilities
When Sérgio Moro resigned as justice minister on Friday, accusing Jair Bolsonaro of meddling in a police...
The pandemic has turned the world outside our doorsteps into a newly formed wilderness. Public spaces...
Moro’s resignation is a seismic event in Brazilian politics. His departure signals a dangerous...
In every crisis it is the poor, sick, disabled, homeless and displaced who suffer the most.
The COVID-19 pandemic brought the world's bustling cities to a screeching halt
Published in Internet Governance Project
By Louise Marie Hurel
Late February this year, Brazil published...
Our cities will not be the same after COVID-19.
Published in Foreign Policy
By Robert Muggah
The world is convulsed by the novel coronavirus, but that...
Strategic Notes on Third Generation Gangs builds upon the third generation street gang (3Gen Gang) theory...
To understand more about the crisis confronting the urban poor, The New Humanitarian interviewed Robert...
Published in The Humanitarian
By Robert Muggah
To understand more about the crisis confronting the urban...
As coronavirus gales across the Americas, officials from Mexico to Chile have puzzled over how to keep...
As coronavirus gales across the Americas, officials from Mexico to Chile have puzzled over how to keep...
Published in Financial Times
By Robert Muggah
With president Jair Bolsonaro dismissing the pandemic as...
Published in Washington Post
By Robert Muggah
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world are jailed...
Published in Bloomberg
By Robert Muggah
At midnight on March 17, Paraguay closed down the Friendship...
Published in Council on Foreign Relations
By Louise Marie Hurel
The February 20 Brazil-EU Cyber...
This article explores two basic questions: (1) What are the cyberthreats facing cities and their residents;...
With COVID-19 infections now evident in 176 countries, the pandemic is the most significant threat to...
Published in Financial Times
By Robert Muggah
With president Jair Bolsonaro dismissing the pandemic as...
Far from merely reflecting an unequal distribution of economic means, rising inequality comes with a...
Liliana was there when local men abducted her teenage friend on the outskirts of El Salvador's capital,...
Published in Project Syndicate
By Robert Muggah
The COVID-19 pandemic was not just predictable but inevitable,...
Published in US Today
By Robert Muggah
A data analysis by USA TODAY finds that, two weeks after the U.S....
Published in The Chicago Council
By Robert Muggah
As COVID-19 spreads around the world, non-resident...
Published in World Economic Forum
By Robbert Muggah
When it comes to infectious disease outbreaks, cities...
Published in USA Today
By Robbert Muggah
The majority of global public health experts believe that countries...
Published in London Schools Economics
By Renata Giannini
Brazil’s process of drafting its first National...
Where a person is born and lives correlates with their overall life chances. Unsurprisingly, people living...
Homicides in Brazil are projected to have fallen 16 percent in 2019 as compared to the previous year,...
There were fewer murders in Brazil's second city of Rio de Janeiro last year - but the number of killings...
Brazil had 41,635 killings in 2019, down 19% from the prior year and the least number of homicides since...