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During the first half of 2020 when more than two-thirds of the world’s population was in lockdown, many...
What remains of the global, open internet came under attack this month.
The U.S.-China dispute just took a dangerous turn. Late last week, the U.S. government issued three separate...
As explained in my new book with Ian Goldin – Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next 100 Years...
On July 7, Jair Bolsonaro, president of the world’s second hardest-hit country by COVID-19, announced...
This week, PS talks with Robert Muggah, a co-founder of the SecDev Group and the Igarapé Institute.
A week before the death of George Floyd in the US city of Minneapolis in May, Brazilians were mourning...
As consensus was finally achieved on July 7, a final draft of the UN-75 political declaration has been...
On multiple fronts, data-driven policymaking has informed and improved Latin America’s response to COVID-19...
This study considers the trajectories of armed conflict in a 'business-as-usual' scenario between 2020-2030.
The only surprise about Jair Bolsonaro's diagnosis for COVID-19 was that it took him so long to test...
Across the United States, the debate over the future of policing is gathering steam.
Political analyst Robert Muggah says Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro's positive COVID-19 test may spell...
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...
A demissão do ministro Sergio Moro é um abalo sísmico na política brasileira. Sua saída do governo sinaliza...
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...