A brazilian state judge ordered mobile phone operators to block nationwide the extremely popular WhatsApp chat service
The Boston Globe – Brazil’s friendishly complicated political and economic crises are sending the country into a tailspin
Robert Muggah, Misha Glenny and Rafal Rohozinski are among the authors of the publication co-edited by the Igarapé Institute and the SecDev Foundation
SABC – Over the past weekend, the ruling party was the first to launch its much anticipated election manifesto
Former Presidents of Colombia, Mexico, and Switzerland together with Sir Richard Branson, US Former Federal Reserve Chair Paul Volcker and members of the Global Commission on Drug Policy call for reducing the harms caused by failed drug policy
Associated Press – An open letter to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon signed by more than 1,000 people
Documento foi enviado ao secretário-geral da ONU, Ban Ki-moon
Ex-presidentes, especialistas, juristas, empresários e artistas estão entre os mais de mil signatários de carta endereçada ao secretário-geral da ONU
The Hill Times – What makes a city prone to instability is often surprising
CBC – New app allows live streaming to help track murderous criminals — and killer cops
Valor Econômico – Em 1998, o slogan da Sessão Especial da Assembleia Geral das Nações Unidas (Ungass, na sigla em inglês) defendia rígidas políticas de controle de drogas
World Economic Forum – High-profile attacks on major cities in Belgium, France and the United States have set the world on edge
The Economist – The thorny task of comparing crime rates across the world is tricky because legal interpretations vary
Open Canada – The world is urbanizing at breakneck speed. But not all regions are moving at the same speed
Outdated drug policies around the world have resulted in soaring drug-related violence, overstretched criminal justice systems
To contribute to Brazil’s National Action Plan (PNA), the Igarapé Institute releases this Strategic Article highlighting lessons learned by countries that have previously developed national plans of this kind.
Los Angeles Times – El Salvador is the world’s most violent country and its capital, San Salvador, is the world’s most homicidal city
Virtually every government, business and civil society organization around the world has to contend with some kind of fragility
From ensuring women’s participation to shifting toward sustaining peace, here are top takeaways from recent UN reviews on fostering global stability
Global Post – The news trickling out of Caracas just keeps getting worse. A recently published ranking of the world’s most dangerous cities listed the Venezuelan capital at the top of the charts
Brazil would do well to support a comprehensive approach to stability and reconstruction in Syria as advocated by the so-called Vienna Process since October 2015.
Carta Capital – Ao contrário do que dizem os críticos do Estatuto do Desarmamento, menos armas representam menos crimes
World Economic Forum – The world is urbanizing at a breakneck pace. But not all regions are moving at the same speed
Open Democracy – Probably San Salvador’s murder rate exceeds the violent death rate in many of the world’s most vicious armed conflicts
Americas Quartely – A new study shows narco-trafficking gangs are only part of the problem
How predicting violence may be possible? How can data help pre/during/post conflict?
Haiti currently faces a political crisis without precedent. The country has a president with no clear constitutional provision for leadership after his term expires
This Strategic Note presents the results of a national survey of 1,766 Haitian adults conducted in January, 2016; they were asked about their participation in voting, barriers to participating in the voting process, their choice for president, and about related subjects.
Open Democracy – The question now is whether citizens will wake up only after it’s too late
Igarapé Institute explains the reducing crime rates in the city and in the state of Rio de Janeiro.
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