[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
A new survey from the Igarapé Institute highlights how livelihoods were affected June 8th, 2017 Haiti has been battered by waves of natural disasters over the past few years. Hurricane Matthew – which struck the country in October 2016, was especially devastating. The Igarapé
WEForum June, 2017 The world has suffered an alarming increase in terrorism events over the past five years. Equally dramatic is the spike in terrorism-related fatalities. While the vast majority of terrorist-related killings are concentrated in the Middle East, North Africa and Central and South
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
Watch the Flashtalk by Igarapé’s research director Robert Muggah with the writer and member of Igarapé’s board Misha Glenny on cities fragility and resilience. The Flashtalk happened at Chicago Forum on Global Cities, which happened on 7-9 June, 2017, in Chicago, US.
WEForum June, 2017 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 in every 100 people globally
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,
New York Times May, 2017 RIO DE JANEIRO — After months of trading messages on social media praising violence by the Islamic State militant group, Leonid El Kadre de Melo said it was time to act. “I want to be clear,” he wrote in a
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
Watch the full broadcast of brazilian launch of “Instinto de Vida” campaign, which took place in Open Society Foundation in Rio de Janeiro, on May 8th.
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
Watch the debate “How to Make Latin America Safer”, made during the WEF LatAm Meeting 2017, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This marked the Instinto de Vida campaign launch; the debate gathered Ilona Szabó de Carvalho, Igarapé’s executive director, Patricia Bullrich, Minister of Security of Argentina,
Watch Ilona Szabó de Carvalho on the Globonews show “Diálogos com Mário Sergio Conti”.
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
Watch Igarapé’s executive director Ilona Szabó de Carvalho participation on “Sem Censura”, TV Brasil’s show. She speaked about her book, “Drogas – as histórias que não te contaram”, and about drug policy.
Yahoo Notícias en Español April, 2017 La exposición a la violencia doméstica, la ausencia de escuelas como espacios de protección y la existencia de un referente de masculinidad basado en la fuerza son, unidos a las redes del narcotráfico, algunos de los factores que empujan
JOTA April, 2017 New infrastructure will make Brazil an even more critical component of the world’s Internet Three years ago, former President Dilma Rousseff signed the Marco Civil da Internet into law. This crowdsourced digital bill of rights provides key guarantees for Brazilian citizens
O Globo April, 2017 Referência mundial em governança, americano deu palestra no Rio a convite da FGV Direito e do Instituto Igarapé “Tenho 82 anos, nasci em New Jersey e estudei em Princeton e Oxford. Sou professor aposentado de Ciência Política do MIT e de
Defense One April, 2017 Brazilian-made weapons – whether firearms, ammunition or cluster munitions – are turning up with alarming frequency in some of the world’s most fragile countries. This is not so surprising; Brazil has ranked among the top global producers of small arms and
Watch Igarapé’s executive director, Ilona Szabó de Carvalho, talking about homicidal violence in Brazil on the TV show “Encontro com Fátima Bernardes”:
Jornal Nexo’s readers sent questions to Ilona Szabó about drug policy. Watch the video in portuguese.
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