InSight Crime August, 2017 In March 2017, two Rio de Janeiro police officers were recorded on video executing two suspects. The incident was damning for Rio de Janeiro’s “Police Pacification Unit” (Unidade de Polícia Pacificadora – UPP) program. Not only did the images of two police…

1.6 millones de brasileros fueron obligados a dejar sus hogares entre 2009 y 2016, de acuerdo a estimaciones del Instituto Igarapé.

HuffPost July, 2017 Los homicidios no son el único problema que enfrenta el puerto guerrerense, uno de los municipios con mayor índice de criminalidad de todo México. No sólo los asesinatos se han convertido en un problema para Acapulco, considerado el municipio más peligroso del…

La Nación Julho, 2017 O Rio de Janeiro continua lindo… Pero cada vez más peligroso. Cuando faltan pocos días para que empiecen las vacaciones de invierno, una ola de violencia ha dejado numerosos inocentes muertos y heridos por balas perdidas y ataques en la ciudad carioca….

Financial Times July, 2017 In the EU, the chances of being killed by a terrorist in 2016 were just five times greater than being killed by lightning. The chances of being murdered for some other reason were more than 30 times greater than that of…

OpenDemocracy July, 2017 Rio de Janeiro is not one, but many cities. There´s the one that most people have heard about – made up of posh beach facing neighbourhoods such as Copacabana, Ipanema and Leblon. Then there´s the city that gets less attention which includes…

OpenDemocracy July, 2017 If the test of successful political leadership could be distilled to a single issue, the fight to safeguard our climate would be a strong candidate. With President Trump withdrawing the US from the Paris Climate Change Agreement (COP21), he abdicates a claim to serious leadership….

OpenDemocracy July, 2017 This article is published as part of the campaign Instinto de Vida. Part of the justification for President Donald Trump’s “great wall” is that it is needed to keep America protected from what lies below – northern Mexico is rife with drug violence…

Financial Times June, 2017 In the EU, the chances of being killed by a terrorist in 2016 were just five times greater than being killed by lightning. The chances of being murdered for some other reason were more than 30 times greater than that of…

The Guardian June, 2017 A silent emergency is spreading across Central America and Mexico. Unprecedented numbers of men, women and children are fleeing the region’s violence-plagued cities and towns. They are seeking asylum in neighbouring countries, or are searching for safer ground closer to home. Two main…

Devex June, 2017 Brazil is the site of not one, but multiple forced migration crises. Since 2016, thousands of Venezuelans have poured across the border in search of safer ground. Congolese, Mozambican and Syrian refugees are claiming asylum there alongside Haitian survival migrants. Much less visible, however,…

The Conversation, Robert Muggah, 28/06/2017 In the 1990s, the capital of Colombia’s mountainous Antioquia province Medellin had one of the world’s highest-ever recorded murder rates: 380 homicides per 100,000 people. After national authorities wrested control of the city’s poorest communities from paramilitaries, mayor Sergio Fajardo…

USA Today June, 2017 The new system works like this: Officers download the CopCast app on a smartphone, and supervisors download a desktop version. Officers can strap the phone onto their chest and hit a button to start recording audio and video, which can be streamed…

La campaña para la reducción de los homicidios en América Latina Instinto de Vida lanza el documento “Latinoamérica puede bajar el homicidio en un 50 por ciento en 10 años. ¿Cómo hacerlo?” en el marco de la Asamblea General de la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA). La publicación identifica un conjunto de opciones de política pública que han tenido efectos positivos en la reducción de la violencia letal, seleccionadas a partir de la revisión de la creciente evidencia disponible sobre lo que funciona y lo que no funciona.

The Globe and Mail – ROBERT MUGGAH Published Jun. 17, 2017 The world is buckling under multiple pressures, including climate change, inequality, migration, pandemics and terrorism. Yet, at precisely the moment collective action is most pressing, international co-operation is coming unstuck. Twentieth-century supranational entities such…