The world’s longest Zoom call is underway at the United Nations General Assembly today.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro defended his administration’s record protecting the Amazon rainforest, telling the United Nations’ virtual meeting of global leaders on Tuesday that his country has been wrongly portrayed as an environmental villain. Bolsonaro’s critics were quick to pick apart his claims.

Even before the tumultuous arrival of COVID-19, many parts of the world were suffering from dangerous polarization and division.

Around the world, COVID-19 is accelerating polarization and division.

O OKA oferece informações sobre serviços oferecidos por agências públicas e da sociedade civil em todo o Equador

The U.S.-China dispute just took a dangerous turn. Late last week, the U.S. government issued three separate measures – two executive orders imposing sanctions on social-media networks WeChat and TikTok, and another to set up a “clean network” program – that, come mid-September, would prohibit any U.S. citizen or company from conducting business with those apps’ Chinese parent companies, Tencent and ByteDance respectively.

On July 7, Jair Bolsonaro, president of the world’s second hardest-hit country by COVID-19, announced he had tested positive for coronavirus and had mild symptoms. Shortly afterwards, he removed his mask to show everyone he was ok.

This week, PS talks with Robert Muggah, a co-founder of the SecDev Group and the Igarapé Institute.

As consensus was finally achieved on July 7, a final draft of the UN-75 political declaration has been approved and is expected to be adopted by world leaders on Sept. 21 at United Nations headquarters through virtual means.

This study considers the trajectories of armed conflict in a ‘business-as-usual’ scenario between 2020-2030.