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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...
As the world’s largest terrestrial carbon sink, the Amazon is a key front in the fight against climate...
One of humanity’s gravest existential threats is invisible. Pandemics are silent killers and have prematurely...
Global cooperation is at a crossroads. Many of the world's biggest challenges are not a result of disagreements...
Climate change is already triggering devastating weather events across the planet, including prolonged...
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro tweeted a sexually explicit video of a man touching himself late Tuesday...
Venezuela’s borders are now dangerous flashpoints in a tense showdown between President Nicolas Maduro...
The crisis in Venezuela risks descending into civil war. The all-out power struggle between President...
The stench of burning tires is hard to escape. Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, is again littered with...
Religious violence is undergoing a revival
in a country plagued by rising levels of violent crime, the sentiment is widely popular with voters —...
Brazil has a crime problem. It is the country with the most homicides in the world, registering almost...
A wave of violence that has swept across the state of Ceara in the last three days has led Brazil’s newly...
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Faced with an epidemic of homicidal violence and relentless corruption, newly elected governments in...
It is now well documented that global warming is a multiplier of insecurity and conflict
Of the many outsiders who have emerged in Latin American politics of late, young Nayib Bukele stands...
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Brazil’s new president, Jair Bolsonaro, is making good on a campaign promise to loosen the country’s...
As Canada hosts an international meeting Monday aimed at ending the presidency of Venezuela’s embattled...
The countries of Africa, Asia, and Latin America provide around 92 percent of all military and police...
Brazil holds a special place in popular consciousness. It evokes thoughts of sun kissed beaches and dense,...
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Fearing for his safety amid rising crime in Latin America’s largest nation, Paulo Alberto joined a gun...
UK, France lead push to set up UN “clearing house” to identify climate-stressed regions at risk of collapsing...
New research published by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has established a relationship...
That's a wrap for day three at this year's Annual Meeting in Davos. From the future of Europe and fighting...
In some areas of the world, including Central America, rising sea levels and declining agricultural productivity...
For centuries, herdsmen across Africa’s Sahel headed south during the long, hot dry season.
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The effects of climate change are exacerbating conflict between communities in both Mali and Niger, leading...
Fearing for his safety amid rising crime in Latin America’s largest nation, Paulo Alberto joined a gun...