I study violence in Latin America, and I’ve observed a sharp increase in reports of religiously motivated crimes in Rio de Janeiro since 2016, in particular attacks on “terreiros” – the temples of the Candomblé and Umbanda faiths.
After years of procrastination, Brazil has finally adopted comprehensive data protection legislation. In mid-2018, the government approved Law 13.709, known by its Portuguese acronym, LGPD.
They came looking for gold. Earlier this year, several dozen unauthorized prospectors, or garimpeiros as they are known in Portuguese, invaded a 1.4 million acre indigenous reserve in Brazil’s remote northern state of Amapá.
Violence has always been one of humanity’s most serious global challenges. Hundreds of millions of men, women, and children have been killed or maimed by armed conflict, crime, extremism, and sexual and gender-based violence. Not only does violence exact a massive social and economic toll, it depreciates human capital and undermines important civic and social institutions.
We are facing a climate emergency. More than 11,000 of the world’s scientists and successive reports issued by the International Governmental Panel on Climate Change say the evidence of human-induced global warming is irrefutable.
A violência não somente causa prejuízos sociais e econômicos maciços, mas também corrói as instituições democráticas e prejudica direitos humanos fundamentais.
Quer os políticos do Brasil acreditem ou não, o aquecimento global é um fato. Existe um perigo de que, enquanto os dados climáticos são questionados, as populações brasileiras sejam deixadas despreparadas para atenuar e se adaptar aos efeitos catastróficos que já estão em andamento.
The world is waking-up to the climate emergency. But our prolonged slumber is going to cost us dearly. The latest scientific findings indicate that our planet is approaching multiple “tipping points” that could cause irreversible and catastrophic changes in temperature, ecosystems and biodiversity.
Make no mistake: the world is in the early stages of a techno-war against city governments and urban infrastructure. And while some cities have bolstered their capabilities to patch their vulnerabilities, they are entirely unprepared for the scale of cyberthreats that are coming.
O mundo está acordando para a emergência climática. A crise das queimadas na Amazônia está trazendo à volta um debate antigo sobre o que significa a soberania nacional. E essa discussão deixa transparecer novas tensões que vão bem além da esfera doméstica.
O Brasil é a capital mundial de assassinatos. Nenhum país sequer chega perto. Por essa razão, foi extensamente noticiado quando o Ministro da Justiça anunciou que as taxas de homicídios caíram mais de 20% em 2019 em comparação com o mesmo período do ano passado.
Cities are stepping-up to confront many of the world’s biggest existential challenges – especially climate change. One reason is that cities have always been where the future happens first; spaces that cultivate creativity, resourcefulness and innovation.
Os impactos catastróficos do aquecimento global estão sendo extensivamente cobertos pela mídia. Do Ártico ao Brasil, o circo está pegando fogo.
News coverage the catastrophic impacts of global warming are everywhere. From the Arctic to Brazil, the house is clearly on fire.
The fate of the Amazon is intertwined with the fate of the world. If 20-25 percent of its tree cover is cut down, scientists estimate, the basin’s capacity to absorb carbon dioxide would be severely compromised, taking out of operation one of the world’s largest carbon sinks.
Robert Muggah é um cientista político canadense e especialista em cidades. É co-fundador do Instituto Igarapé – instituição sem fins lucrativos sediada no Rio de Janeiro
O futuro parece mais ameaçador e tenebroso do que nunca. A sensação de melancolia está cada vez mais enraizada, especialmente no Ocidente. As manchetes diárias não ajudam.
Brazil has struggled to contain prison violence for decades. A riot at the Altamira prison in Pará state on July 29, which left at least 62 inmates dead, revealed just how much work still needs to be done.
Sixty-two people are dead following a riot at a prison in northern Brazil earlier this week. Fifty-eight inmates were killed when a fight broke out between rival gangs at a prison in Altamira, in Para state, including 16 who were beheaded.
The future feels more threatening and ominous than ever. The sense of doom and gloom is deepening, not least in the West.
The greatest wave of democratisation in history is receding – and crime and violence are to blame. Latin Americans were among the most devoted converts to democracy in the late 20th century.
All coastal cities are facing sea-level rise, but some will be hit harder than others. Asian cities are in for a particularly rough ride.
Um novo estudo do Instituto Igarapé, Future Crime, destaca evidências sobre a previsão de crimes; e fornece uma visão geral das oportunidades e armadilhas das novas tecnologias de combate à criminalidade. Apresenta recomendações para garantir transparência e responsabilidade.
The absolute number, prevalence and lethality of terrorist incidents has decreased significantly around the world since its peak in 2014.
The 2019 Pritzker Forum on Global Cities takes place in Chicago June 5 through 7. Join the world’s leading urban thinkers and doers for this multiday, international forum cohosted by the Council and the Financial Times
De Robert Muggah Publicado no NPR Once again, Brazil’s hellish prisons are making global headlines. The spotlight this week is on Manaus, the capital of the country’s northern Amazonas state, where violence at different prisons left 55 inmates dead. On Sunday, the mutilated bodies of 15
Para entender melhor sobre oportunidades que a tecnologia possibilita quanto ao combate e prevenção da violência, o Bate-Bola dessa vez conversa com Robert Muggah, cofundador do Instituto Igarapé e diretor da área de pesquisa da entidade.
One of the world’s most homicidal countries just registered the sharpest overall decline of lethal violence in its history
Brazilians have an uneasy but enduring co-existence with homicide. Over 1,060,000 of them have been murdered since 2000.
Há tempos, os fabricantes de armas estão de olho no Brasil e após a eleição de Jair Bolsonaro, as apostas dobraram em um país onde carências no combate à criminalidade e o grande contingente nas forças armadas antecipam bons negócios.
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