The Guardian – Maria Beatriz Nogueira and Maiara Folly Brazil is failing to respond to one of the most serious forced migration crises in decades. The economic and political maelstrom in neighboring Venezuela has forced thousands of people to flee into Brazil in search of…

[El Clarin. Alejandra Sánchez y José Luis Pardo] En América Latina sólo vive el 8% de la población mundial, pero es la región más violenta del planeta, con 400 asesinatos diarios. En Argentina se cometen siete por día. Sergio Vicente Goulard está desnudo sobre una…

Bloomberg View – Data mapping offers cops the chance to leapfrog not just criminals, but a stodgy bureaucracy. By Mac Margolis June 9, 2017 Whenever violent crime gets out of hand in Rio de Janeiro, as it frequently has, the public glare has fallen on…

  A new survey from the Igarapé Institute highlights how livelihoods were affected June 8th, 2017 Haiti has been battered by waves of natural disasters over the past few years. Hurricane Matthew – which struck the country in October 2016, was especially devastating. The Igarapé…

WEForum June, 2017 The world has suffered an alarming increase in terrorism events over the past five years. Equally dramatic is the spike in terrorism-related fatalities. While the vast majority of terrorist-related killings are concentrated in the Middle East, North Africa and Central and South…

06 Jun 2017 Robert MuggahResearch Director, Igarapé Institute The world is facing unprecedented levels of population displacement. At least 65 million people are on the move, including 21.3 million refugees and 31 million internally displaced persons since the beginning of 2016. That means that one…

WEForum June, 2017 The world is facing unprecedented levels of population displacement. At least 65 million people are on the move, including 21.3 million refugees and 31 million internally displaced persons since the beginning of 2016. That means that one in every 100 people globally…

Earth TimeLapse, an interactive platform created by global security expert Robert Muggah and Carnegie Mellon University researchers, shows those risks in a new light.

VIOLENCIA –  Caracas encabeza la lista con 130,35 homicidios por cada 100.000 habitantes Latinoamérica 31 MAY 2017 – 04:56 BRT TERESA GARCÍA ALCARAZ ¿Quién está al mando? La violencia y el riesgo de defender en América Latina Especial Ciudades espejo Fórmulas para una ciudad de…

Pacifista! May, 2017 Este domingo 28 de mayo se cumple un año de la intervención en la zona de “la L”, también conocida como El Bronx. Cuatro meses antes de que la Alcaldía de Bogotá dirigiera el operativo, el comandante de la Policía de Bogotá…

Open Society Foundations May, 2017 Earlier this month in Culiacán, Mexico, according to a report from the New York Times, the veteran journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas, chronicler of the drug cartel–fueled violence that today ravages large swaths of Mexico and Latin America, was murdered. He…

Business Insider May, 2017 In the US, your risk of death due to terrorism is roughly 1 in 46,000. Around the world, that rate can vary wildly. In an attempt to visualize those global risks, Carnegie Mellon researchers teamed up with Robert Muggah, a global security expert…

Razón Pública May, 2017 Por Katherine Aguirre, pesquisadora de Instituto Igarapé Incumplimientos de todos los lados El día clave del proceso de paz será el jueves 1 de junio: ese día es el número 180 de la que dimos en llamar “implementación” del Acuerdo Final,…

New York Times May, 2017 RIO DE JANEIRO — After months of trading messages on social media praising violence by the Islamic State militant group, Leonid El Kadre de Melo said it was time to act. “I want to be clear,” he wrote in a…

The Colombian Post May, 2017 ‘Some of the richest people in the world are from Latin America’ Inequality is the key issue in Latin America, along with education. Some of the richest people in the world are from Latin America – such as Carlos Slim…