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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...
Agenda 2030 is in trouble. The rare political consensus that led to the adoption of the Sustainable Development...
The absolute number, prevalence and lethality of terrorist incidents has decreased significantly around...
The 2019 Pritzker Forum on Global Cities takes place in Chicago June 5 through 7.
Robert Muggah talks to the BBC’s Newshour about the recent killings inside the prisons on the Brazilian...
Once again, Brazil's hellish prisons are making global headlines. The spotlight this week is on Manaus,...
Brazil recorded 64,000 murders in 2017
Contemporary Africa and the Foreseeable World Order sheds light on the place of "Africa Agency" in the...
There is growing evidence that climate change can increase the risks of conflict and violence.
By adopting the EPON’s methodology framework, the report has evaluated the effectiveness of the UN peacekeeping...
The objective of this study is to offer a data-driven review of the growth, trends, and the principle...
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One of the world’s most homicidal countries just registered the sharpest overall decline of lethal violence...
Brazilians have an uneasy but enduring co-existence with homicide. Over 1,060,000 of them have been murdered...
Gun makers and military industry companies from all over the world gathered in Rio de Janeiro for Latin...
Robert Muggah, diretor de pesquisa do Igarapé, falou à BBC sobre mudanças climáticas e sua influência...
Apresentação do diretor de pesquisa do Instituto Igarapé, Robert Muggah, no World Governance Forum.
Cities are the defining form of human organization in the 21st century
Brazil has an uneasy co-existence with homicide. At least 1,060,000 Brazilians have been murdered since...
What's the effect of temperature rising on conflicts at world's most vulnerable areas?
Last week, two gunmen opened fire at a high school near Sao Paulo, killing eight people, including five...
Ilona Szabó de Carvalho is the cofounder and executive director of the Igarapé Institute, a think and...
The world is less violent today than at virtually any other time in human history. Hard as it is to believe,...
The United States will withdraw all remaining staff from its embassy in Venezuela, according to a late-night...