Extracted from the UNODC’s 2023 World Drug Report, this summary addresses the nexus between drugs and environmental crimes, as well as converging crimes in the Amazon Basin. The extract, for which the head of Innovation at the Igarapé Institute, Robert Muggah, was responsible, indicates that
Brazil’s stewardship of the world’s largest tropical forest has long ignited acrimony
The artificial intelligence race is gathering pace, and the stakes could not be higher.
Even before Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva assumed office on Jan. 1, he was steeling himself for a national emergency
Whether it was gold, diamonds, or iron, the history of Brazil has been shaped for centuries by the hunt for minerals.
Illegal deforestation, wildcat mining, drug trafficking, and lethal violence: Name your scourge and the Amazon Basin seldom disappoints.
Nicaragua’s crackdown on the political opposition, free press, and civil society is intensifying.
Recent months may well be remembered as the moment when predictive artificial intelligence went mainstream.
In late January, harrowing pictures from the Yanomami Indigenous reserve began popping up on Brazilian social media
Even as the armed forces and police broke up the 8 January insurrection in Brasilia, carting more than 1,000 rioters off to prison, the Brazilian rumour mills spun into high gear.
Cybercrime is high on the agenda of nation states, corporations and international organizations everywhere.
In the years leading-up to the outbreak of genocide in Darfur, in 2003, median rainfall plummeted by a third.
If cities are where the future happens first, then the future came early to Bogota
It can seem like climate change affects all communities equally
It all began with a bureaucratic assignment on Jan. 12, 1830.
The world is confronting multiple intersecting geopolitical events with highly unpredictable consequences
Any hope of keeping global temperatures under 2C depends on the acceleration of radical climate action – including in the world’s forests.
Ravaged by a pandemic, a brutal war in Europe, and rising social unrest over unaffordable food and fuel, the world looks anything but safe
Russia’s motives for invading Ukraine vary from security fears to revisionist historical claims that a Ukrainian national identity does not exist
The spread of Brazil’s gangs into the Amazon is hardly new.
Scholars and political leaders worldwide are fretting over the complex connections between climate and insecurity
Jutting out from the second-largest continent, the Horn of Africa is one of the world’s regions most vulnerable to climate change
More than one-fourth of the world’s population lives in conditions of insecurity because of high levels of crime and violence, especially in the Global South
Cities are the front line of climate change as perpetrators, victims, and problem-solvers
It is conceivable that 2021 will be remembered as the year we reached a climate action tipping point — and not a moment too soon
Yet now more than ever, humanity’s collective future hinges on effective cooperation
The U.S. military responded less than 48 hours later with an unmanned airstrike in Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province
Data privacy exchanged for frictionless convenience is being compromised, stolen and leaked with disturbing regularity.
With tensions rising between global powers, digital attacks increasing in frequency and intensity, deepening climate threats and dangerously uneven Covid-19 recovery
After all, they’ve been buying, pilfering and seizing them from ANDSF forces for almost two decades.
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