Rio de Janeiro’s public security authorities must stop relying on lethal interventions as a policing strategy May 7th – Rio de Janeiro The Igarapé Institute is deeply saddened by the brutal killing of 25 people, including a law enforcement officer, during a police
As the world pressures Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro to act, Robert Muggah of the Igarape Institute, a think tank in Brazil, has released a new too
Maps are not just informative, they are empowering
Rio de Janeiro’s bloody war on crime continues amidst a deepening COVID-19 crisis
A policeman was among those killed in the early morning raid on Jacarezinho, on Rio’s north side, where residents awoke to explosions, heavy gunfire and helicopters overhead.
This is one of a series of articles written by Young Global Leaders with action-oriented ideas to improve the state of the world by 2030
The Amazon Basin is fast approaching an irreversible tipping point
This map shows how economic power moved from east to west over the course of centuries — and then snapped rapidly back east over the past few decades
Cities around the world are getting smarter.
“I always had the American dream,” says Bernardo Mattos, sitting outside his shooting club in Rio de Janeiro
Last year, Ian Goldin of the University of Oxford and Robert Muggah, a Brazil-based policy analyst, also released Terra Incognita: 100 Maps to Survive the Next Hundred Years
A judge on Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court on Monday suspended parts of four decrees issued by President Jair Bolsonaro relaxing the country’s gun control laws.
The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming virtually every aspect of our lives.
O Instituto lançou o seu Artigo Estratégico 54, Cibersegurança no Brasil: uma análise da estratégia nacional
Mongabay caught up with Igarapé Institute co-founder Robert Muggah this week to discuss Ecocrime, a new data visualization platform that combines visual storytelling with access to raw data on environmental crime in the Amazon.
All coastal cities are vulnerable to climate change
Robert Muggah’s book, Terra Incognita, received a positive review in The Lancet.
From abroad, she’s urging lawmakers and the country’s Supreme Court to strike down the measures.
Bolsonaro’s administration is largely responsible for all of this chaos, which has killed 270,000 Brazilians.
Ilona Szabó de Carvalho points out that while violent crime declined in the city, it increased in the rest of the state — a phenomenon reflecting the judicial decision to ban police operations in the city.
Latin America and the Caribbean are suffering from the twin epidemics of COVID-19 and organized crime and violence.
Even with deaths at all-time highs, Bolsonaro continues to undermine efforts to address the pandemic
Brazil is in critical condition. Latin America’s largest country is experiencing record-breaking death tolls and its health system is teetering on the brink of collapse.
Robert Muggah contributed to the annual Global Risks Report.
Jair Bolsonaro’s latest efforts to make guns more easily available to Brazilians have sparked anger and trepidation with some calling the moves a threat to the South American country’s young democracy.
It’s no surprise that a president whose campaign symbol was making a gun gesture with his hands would turn out to be a pro-gun leader once in office.
The COVID-19 pandemic is generating monumental challenges for most governments, corporations and societies, both online and off.
It was once fashionable to describe Brazil as the country of the future.
One of the many injustices of climate change is it hits the world’s poorest countries hardest
The Igarape Institute has prepared a series of products on the relationship between climate security and violence in West Africa.
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