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In the Media
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...
Rio de Janeiro’s ultra-conservative governor, Wilson Witzel, was elected in 2018 on a tough-on-crime...
Focused on Mexico City, this article offers a seminal examination of the relationship between block layout...
Adriana Erthal Abdenur, coordinator for International Peace and Security at Igarapé, has published the...
I study violence in Latin America, and I’ve observed a sharp increase in reports of religiously motivated...
After years of procrastination, Brazil has finally adopted comprehensive data protection legislation....
They came looking for gold. Earlier this year, several dozen unauthorized prospectors, or garimpeiros...
Violence has always been one of humanity's most serious global challenges. Hundreds of millions of men,...
We are facing a climate emergency. More than 11,000 of the world's scientists and successive reports...
Violence has always been one of humanity's most serious global challenges. This is because for most of...
As Rachel Kleinfeld and Robert Muggah note, levels of state-to-state conflict in the world are now at...
The world is waking-up to the climate emergency. But our prolonged slumber is going to cost us dearly....
Make no mistake: the world is in the early stages of a techno-war against city governments and urban...
Brazil is the world's murder capital. No other country even comes close. That is why it was big news...
Cities are stepping-up to confront many of the world’s biggest existential challenges – especially climate...
n one of the world’s most fragile and violent settings, Lieut. Comdr. Marcia Braga, a 45-year-old Brazilian...
Igarapé's Peace and Security Coordinator, Adriana Abdenur, contributed with the section "The Crisis of...
News coverage the catastrophic impacts of global warming are everywhere. From the Arctic to Brazil, the...
If ratified, the Mercosur-EU trade deal may reinforce the parties’ commitment to climate action. Yet,...
The fate of the Amazon is intertwined with the fate of the world. If 20-25 percent of its tree cover...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug 13 2019 (IPS) - Every year, over 12,000 women are killed in Latin America. The region...
Sixty-two people are dead following a riot at a prison in northern Brazil earlier this week. Fifty-eight...
Brazil has struggled to contain prison violence for decades. A riot at the Altamira prison in Pará state...
Robert Muggah and Renata Giannini contributed with a section for this report.
A new form of organized crime has recently been emerging in the Amazon: illegal mining. Miners fell trees,...
Digital solutions are quickly filling the information vacuum plaguing the thousands of people around...
The future feels more threatening and ominous than ever. The sense of doom and gloom is deepening, not...
The greatest wave of democratisation in history is receding - and crime and violence are to blame. Latin...
All coastal cities are facing sea-level rise, but some will be hit harder than others. Asian cities are...