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Africans are moving to the city. Already home to the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population,...
Furious at corrupt politicians and fearful of deteriorating security, many Brazilians are calling for...
Did President Trump manufacture a border crisis where none existed?
A new website that lets people delve into data on the world's cities has been launched. Dr Robert Muggah...
The images of children being forcibly separated from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border are shocking...
The US Attorney General claims these separations are justified by the Bible and will deter illegal immigration,...
Today’s cities are on the frontline of crime and terrorism. While some of them are clearly more at risk than...
The risk of cyber crime is growing in Brazil amid a debate over the balance between security and privacy....
En Foro Global, Genaro Lozano entrevista a Robert Muggah, colaborador de Americas Quarterly y cofundador...
Millennials are an ethical bunch. Veganism is on the rise, primarily down to the environmental impact...
Rising homicide rates are damaging Brazil's economy and leading to skyrocketing public security cost...
Report finds that crime has worsened and lays out the cost over two decades
A new study shows that violence costs Brazil more than 4 percent of GDP. Here's how security policy could...
Rising homicide rates are damaging Brazil’s economy and leading to skyrocketing public security costs,...
Crime now costs Latin America’s largest economy over $75 billion a year, double the amount of two decades...
Brazil’s homicide rate soared over the past two decades even as the state and the public sector greatly...
Latin America is the planet's most urbanized region. In just over a generation - between 1950 and 2010...
The world is drowning in data. Every minute, there are roughly 456,000 tweets, 510,000 comments posted...
Today's armed conflicts also make conflict prevention more challenging. This is because armed conflict...
05/06/2018 Adriana Erthal Abdenur and Maiara Folly Originally published on PassBlue RIO DE JANEIRO —...
As warfare spikes, UN peacekeeping is at a breaking point, unable to keep up with relentless demand....
A bill passed yesterday by Brazil’s Lower House marks a major step forward in the push for privacy....
By Robert Muggah 24/05/2018 Originally published on the Small Wars Journal Paraphrasing the Greek...
22/05/2018 Ana Paula Pellegrino, Dandara Tinoco, Renata Giannini, and Robert Muggah Originally published...
Even from his jail cell, Brazil’s former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, founder of the Workers’...
More than 50 days after Franco’s murder, police have yet to make an arrest. Experts point to broad...
27/04/2018 By Deirdre Collings and Robert Muggah Originally published on iPolitics In war-torn Syria,...
Study shows region suffered 33 percent of world’s homicidal violence despite representing eight...
En cuatro países de la región, Brasil, Colombia, México y Venezuela, se comete un cuarto de todos los...
Region has experienced 2.5 million murders since 2000 and report paints bleak picture of extreme violence...
25/04/2018 by Amanda Erickson Originally published on the Washington Post Friends of 13-year-old...
Many Latin American countries, states and cities are facing a chronic public security crisis.
The focus of this report is on the intended and unintended consequences of mano dura in Latin America,...
Brazil is not facing so much a conventional “armed conflict” as a systemic crisis of public security....
Most of the world’s critical infrastructure—nuclear plants, electrical transmission systems, water...
Rejecting official information channels, Rio’s citizens are navigating their city using crowdsourced...
Latin America’s violent crime, and ways of dealing with it, have lessons for the rest of the world 05/04/2018...
Although democracy has spread from one country to more than 100 countries in the space of two centuries,...
In a country where jails are seen as ticking timebombs, a system of self-rule among inmates has proved...
Innovations from Kenya Giovanna Marques Kuele and Adriana Erthal Abdenur, in Nairobi With the budget...
26/03/2018 by Robbert Muggah Originally published on the Los Angeles Times Gunfire kills or injures at...
Allegations that some of the victims were innocent residents executed in a revenge mission after a police...
By Anastasia Moloney MEDELLIN, Colombia, March 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – As a pink dusk...
The police have failed to control violence. The army is doing no better 22/03/2018 Originally published...
22/03/2018 Por Katherine Aguirre Tobón Publicado originalmente en El País Cali El Plan Fortaleza es un...
20/03/2018 By David Biller Originally published on Bloomberg In the world’s most murderous country, gun...
19/03/2018 By Anthony Faiola and Marina Lopes Originally published on the Washington Post RIO DE JANEIRO...
15/03/2018 As published on the New York Times RIO DE JANEIRO — On the eve of her killing on a downtown...
Ousmane Diallo and Gustavo de Carvalho More than two and a half years since its signature in Bamako,...
An influx of eateries and artistic businesses is helping to sweep away decades of neglect and decay 13/03/2018...