InSight Crime August, 2017 In March 2017, two Rio de Janeiro police officers were recorded on video executing two suspects. The incident was damning for Rio de Janeiro’s “Police Pacification Unit” (Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora – UPP) program. Not only did the images of two police
1.6 millones de brasileros fueron obligados a dejar sus hogares entre 2009 y 2016, de acuerdo a estimaciones del Instituto Igarapé.
HuffPost July, 2017 Los homicidios no son el único problema que enfrenta el puerto guerrerense, uno de los municipios con mayor índice de criminalidad de todo México. No sólo los asesinatos se han convertido en un problema para Acapulco, considerado el municipio más peligroso del
La Nación Julho, 2017 O Rio de Janeiro continua lindo… Pero cada vez más peligroso. Cuando faltan pocos días para que empiecen las vacaciones de invierno, una ola de violencia ha dejado numerosos inocentes muertos y heridos por balas perdidas y ataques en la ciudad carioca.
Financial Times July, 2017 In the EU, the chances of being killed by a terrorist in 2016 were just five times greater than being killed by lightning. The chances of being murdered for some other reason were more than 30 times greater than that of
OpenDemocracy July, 2017 If the test of successful political leadership could be distilled to a single issue, the fight to safeguard our climate would be a strong candidate. With President Trump withdrawing the US from the Paris Climate Change Agreement (COP21), he abdicates a claim to serious leadership.
OpenDemocracy July, 2017 This article is published as part of the campaign Instinto de Vida. Part of the justification for President Donald Trump’s “great wall” is that it is needed to keep America protected from what lies below – northern Mexico is rife with drug violence
Financial Times June, 2017 In the EU, the chances of being killed by a terrorist in 2016 were just five times greater than being killed by lightning. The chances of being murdered for some other reason were more than 30 times greater than that of
The Guardian June, 2017 A silent emergency is spreading across Central America and Mexico. Unprecedented numbers of men, women and children are fleeing the region’s violence-plagued cities and towns. They are seeking asylum in neighbouring countries, or are searching for safer ground closer to home. Two main
Devex June, 2017 Brazil is the site of not one, but multiple forced migration crises. Since 2016, thousands of Venezuelans have poured across the border in search of safer ground. Congolese, Mozambican and Syrian refugees are claiming asylum there alongside Haitian survival migrants. Much less visible, however,
The Conversation, Robert Muggah, 28/06/2017 In the 1990s, the capital of Colombia’s mountainous Antioquia province Medellin had one of the world’s highest-ever recorded murder rates: 380 homicides per 100,000 people. After national authorities wrested control of the city’s poorest communities from paramilitaries, mayor Sergio Fajardo
USA Today June, 2017 The new system works like this: Officers download the CopCast app on a smartphone, and supervisors download a desktop version. Officers can strap the phone onto their chest and hit a button to start recording audio and video, which can be streamed
The Globe and Mail – ROBERT MUGGAH Published Jun. 17, 2017 The world is buckling under multiple pressures, including climate change, inequality, migration, pandemics and terrorism. Yet, at precisely the moment collective action is most pressing, international co-operation is coming unstuck. Twentieth-century supranational entities such
The Guardian – Maria Beatriz Nogueira and Maiara Folly Brazil is failing to respond to one of the most serious forced migration crises in decades. The economic and political maelstrom in neighboring Venezuela has forced thousands of people to flee into Brazil in search of
[El Clarin. Alejandra Sánchez y José Luis Pardo] En América Latina sólo vive el 8% de la población mundial, pero es la región más violenta del planeta, con 400 asesinatos diarios. En Argentina se cometen siete por día. Sergio Vicente Goulard está desnudo sobre una
Bloomberg View – Data mapping offers cops the chance to leapfrog not just criminals, but a stodgy bureaucracy. By Mac Margolis June 9, 2017 Whenever violent crime gets out of hand in Rio de Janeiro, as it frequently has, the public glare has fallen on
06 Jun 2017 Robert MuggahResearch Director, Igarapé Institute The world is facing unprecedented levels of population displacement. At least 65 million people are on the move, including 21.3 million refugees and 31 million internally displaced persons since the beginning of 2016. That means that one
Earth TimeLapse, an interactive platform created by global security expert Robert Muggah and Carnegie Mellon University researchers, shows those risks in a new light.
VIOLENCIA – Caracas encabeza la lista con 130,35 homicidios por cada 100.000 habitantes Latinoamérica 31 MAY 2017 – 04:56 BRT TERESA GARCÍA ALCARAZ ¿Quién está al mando? La violencia y el riesgo de defender en América Latina Especial Ciudades espejo Fórmulas para una ciudad de
Pacifista! May, 2017 Este domingo 28 de mayo se cumple un año de la intervención en la zona de “la L”, también conocida como El Bronx. Cuatro meses antes de que la Alcaldía de Bogotá dirigiera el operativo, el comandante de la Policía de Bogotá
Open Society Foundations May, 2017 Earlier this month in Culiacán, Mexico, according to a report from the New York Times, the veteran journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas, chronicler of the drug cartel–fueled violence that today ravages large swaths of Mexico and Latin America, was murdered. He
Business Insider May, 2017 In the US, your risk of death due to terrorism is roughly 1 in 46,000. Around the world, that rate can vary wildly. In an attempt to visualize those global risks, Carnegie Mellon researchers teamed up with Robert Muggah, a global security expert
Razón Pública May, 2017 Por Katherine Aguirre, pesquisadora de Instituto Igarapé Incumplimientos de todos los lados El día clave del proceso de paz será el jueves 1 de junio: ese día es el número 180 de la que dimos en llamar “implementación” del Acuerdo Final,
The Colombian Post May, 2017 ‘Some of the richest people in the world are from Latin America’ Inequality is the key issue in Latin America, along with education. Some of the richest people in the world are from Latin America – such as Carlos Slim
WEForum May, 2017 President Trump’s administration has made repeated claims that its proposed immigration bans are meant to stop the flow of refugees across US borders. But what does that flow actually look like compared to the rest of the world? Global security expert and
DW May, 2017 El presidente de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos, llega este 17 de mayo a Washington para su primer encuentro oficial con Donald Trump. Los temas a tratar están cantados: paz en Colombia, lucha contra el narcotráfico, inversión después del conflicto, comercio y, desde luego, Venezuela.
Business Insider May. 2017 President Trump’s administration has made repeated claims that its proposed immigration bans are meant to stop the flow of refugees across US borders. But what does that flow actually look like compared to the rest of the world? Global security expert
The Guardian May, 2017 The Brazilian authorities have been accused of turning a blind eye to a human rights crisis following a sharp rise in the number of killings by police. In a report published on Thursday, Amnesty International said Brazil had not done enough
The Mexican Times Maio, 2017 A principios del 2017 pedí una copia de la ‘estrategia integral de atención prioritaria a municipios que concentran el mayor número de homicidios dolosos’ vía acceso a la información, y el gobierno me entregó un documento de escuetas cuatro páginas
Americas Quarterly April, 2017 That Mexico’s drug cartels get their firepower from the United States is no longer much of a mystery. Even President Donald Trump has acknowledged that the U.S. should do more to curb the flow of arms across its southern border. But
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