In late January, harrowing pictures from the Yanomami Indigenous reserve began popping up on Brazilian social media

Even as the armed forces and police broke up the 8 January insurrection in Brasilia, carting more than 1,000 rioters off to prison, the Brazilian rumour mills spun into high gear.

In the years leading-up to the outbreak of genocide in Darfur, in 2003, median rainfall plummeted by a third.

Any hope of keeping global temperatures under 2C depends on the acceleration of radical climate action – including in the world’s forests.

After seven straight years of record-breaking global temperatures, and nearly three decades since the first United Nations consort on environment and development, concern over the gathering climate emergency has finally gone mainstream

Louise Marie shares below some reflections on the importance of Cyber Portals to CCB and the lessons learned from the process of developing the national portal

Today on Front Burner, director of the Igarapé Institute in Rio de Janeiro and political analyst Robert Muggah

O Instituto lançou o seu Artigo Estratégico 54, Cibersegurança no Brasil: uma análise da estratégia nacional

The Igarape Institute has prepared a series of products on the relationship between climate security and violence in West Africa.

Discrimination and violence against Brazil’s LGBTQ communities are widespread, yet often underreported

Many Brazilians were worried by the torrent of disinformation on social networks during this year’s bitterly contested U.S. presidential elections

What is civic space? What is its relation to our democracy? Why is it under attack? In this article, Ilona Szabó explains all and proposes a typology for a better understanding of the different strategies and tactics used by authoritarian-populist governments. The article also presents…

This article is part of a series in which leading experts reflect on emerging trends for cities seeking to address hate, polarisation and extremism.

JBS, the world’s largest meatpacker, is turning to blockchain to ensure the traceability of the tens of thousands of cattle it processes every day in Brazil, following intense pressure from both investors and activists over its environmental record.

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