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International

Nada nuevo en Colombia: paz en las ciudades, guerra en el campo

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.

International

Mesmerizing maps show the global flow of refugees over the last 15 years

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

Multimedia

“How to Make Latin America Safer”, WEF LatAm Meeting 2017

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,

International

Why a ‘Great Wall’ Won’t Stop the Cross-Border Gun Trade

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

Multimedia

Ilona Szabó on “Sem Censura”

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.

Brazilian

Digital Rights at a Crossroads

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

Brazilian

Robert Rotberg: ‘bureaucreacy feeds corruption’

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

International

The Trouble With Brazil’s Expanding Arms Trade

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

Brazilian

Readers interview Ilona Szabó on drug policy

Nexo April, 2017 Especialista em segurança pública e política de drogas responde a perguntas dos leitores sobre legalização da maconha e outras coisas mais.

Press Release

Responding to the murder epidemic in Latin America

The “Instinct for Life” homicide reduction campaign aims to cut homicides in the region by 50% in ten years April, 2017 Latin America faces a murder epidemic: every day at least 400 people are violently killed. That amounts to 144,000 homicides a year.  Some 2.6

International

Brazil doesn’t do wars — but weapons sales yes

RFI April 6, 2017 Brazil is on the sidelines of today’s wars, but at a Rio defense fair this week the South American gentle giant eagerly sought to sell weapons to anyone else who may need to fight. Brazilian companies account for 150 of the

International

The world’s most dangerous cities

The Economist March 31, 2017 COCAINE is grown primarily in South America, and trafficked to the world’s biggest market, the United States, via Central America and the Caribbean. The land routes originate mainly in Colombia, and pass through the small nations of El Salvador, Honduras

International

Brazil’s prisons: A battleground in the drug wars

Al Jazeera March 27, 2017 Manaus, Brazil – It was early evening on January 1, 2017, when Maria heard that a riot was under way at Complexo Penitenciario Anisio Jobim (COMPAJ) – the prison where her two sons Antony, 27, and Antonio, 22, were being held. Maria – an

Brazilian

Drogas: as histórias que não te contaram

Jota March 27, 2017 Ainda que destacada pelas manchetes dos jornais no país e no mundo, a crise carcerária brasileira segue inabalada. Logo após os massacres do início do ano, o governo federal adotou medidas paliativas, mas o potencial para mais episódios de violência permanece,

International

La igualdad de género: el punto en común para la paz en Colombia

Las 2 Orillas March 24, 2017 Mientras decenas de negociadores en la mesa de La Habana intentaban llegar a puntos de acuerdo en la complicada agenda de terminación del conflicto, el enfoque de género fue un punto de común acuerdo entre grupos que han estado

International

Targeting “Hot Spots” Could Drastically Reduce Latin America’s Murder Rate

America’s Quarterly March 24, 2017 Focusing on the cities, neighborhoods – even streets – where crime recurs doesn’t just displace violence. A special report from the Igarapé Institute. In Bogotá, just 1.2 percent of street addresses account for 99 percent of homicides. In Medellín, 40 percent

Op-eds

The smartest cities are resilient ones

[Em Inglês] O foco deste artigo é a necessidade de resiliência das cidades, tendo em vista a urbanização desorganizada que tem se alastrado pelo planeta.

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