In Brazil’s Yanomami Indigenous Territory and across other parts of the Amazon Basin, illegal gold mining has metastasized into a transnational criminal enterprise. What starts with illegal deforestation and mercury poisoning ends with laundered gold flowing into global supply chains. The trade finances organized crime, corrupt officials,
Haiti is sliding into the abyss. Violence has intensified since the beginning of the year as gangs continued to overrun communities and paralyze basic services. The capital, Port-au-Prince, and several other cities are now largely controlled by powerful gang coalitions, most notably Viv Amsanm and Gran Grif. The country’s Transitional Presidential Council (TPC), formed with CARICOM over a year
Brazil’s federal police recently pulled back the curtain on a criminal web that had infiltrated the country’s fuel distribution chains. What looked like ordinary gas stations were, in fact, outposts of a vast laundering machine, washing dirty money with diesel and ethanol. According to Justice Minister Ricardo
Earlier this month, Juliette Dorson, a 50-year-old Haitian caterer, was shot while working an event in Port-au-Prince. Her business partner, Luc, died in the attack. She survived, but barely. For residents of Haiti’s capital, such horrors are tragically routine. Gangs now control four-fifths of the city, wielding not
The global development industry is facing a reckoning. Long reliant on Western donors, the sector is grappling with deep and sudden cuts to official development assistance. The crisis in aid affects tens of thousands of workers and service users with cascading effects on food security, poverty reduction, health and education provision,
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.
Whether it was gold, diamonds, or iron, the history of Brazil has been shaped for centuries by the hunt for minerals.
If Chinese lending declines, sub-Saharan Africa’s ability to raise financing will be deeply affected.
Even before taking office in January 2023, Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva promised to end illegal deforestation in the Amazon.
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.
Between July 25 and 29, UN member states gathered in New York for the third substantive session of the Open-Ended Working Group on the security in and of information and communications technologies (OEWG)
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
Agriculture has come a long way in the twenty-first century.
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
Ilona Szabó de Carvalho, Co-Founder and President, Igarapé Institute, has spent most of her life working to build coalitions for collective action and says it will take broad and diverse networks of people to tackle the biggest challenges in the world.
Once the epicenter of the global trade in gold, illegal mining is once again surging across the Amazon.
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