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.

Gun makers and military industry companies from all over the world gathered in Rio de Janeiro for Latin America’s largest defense and security fair Tuesday, hoping to benefit from Brazil’s new far-right administration and President Jair Bolsonaro’s vow to loosen gun laws.

Foi ao ar no World Government Summit “Nós objetivamos criar cidades do futuro.” Robert Muggah, diretor de pesquisas do Instituto Igarapé, fala nesta seção sobre “como cidades podem moldar o futuro do nosso mundo”. Ele afirma que os próximos 20-30 anos vão testemunhar 70% da…

Brazil has an uneasy co-existence with homicide. At least 1,060,000 Brazilians have been murdered since 2000.

Qual efeito o aumento das temperaturas pode ter em conflitos nas áreas mais vulneráveis do mundo?

Last week, two gunmen opened fire at a high school near Sao Paulo, killing eight people, including five schoolchildren

The world is less violent today than at virtually any other time in human history

O cheiro de borracha queimada paira no ar. As ruas do Haiti estão novamente repletas de barricadas fumegantes depois que mais de 1 milhão de pessoas foram às ruas protestar.

The United States will withdraw all remaining staff from its embassy in Venezuela, according to a late-night March 11 announcement by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Twitter, who cited the “deterioriating situation” there.

One of humanity’s gravest existential threats is invisible. Pandemics are silent killers and have prematurely ended the lives of more people than virtually any other cause.

Global cooperation is at a crossroads. Many of the world’s biggest challenges are not a result of disagreements about how to cooperate, but a profound loss of direction about why to cooperate in the first place.

Climate change is already triggering devastating weather events across the planet, including prolonged droughts, flash floods and wildfires.

The crisis in Venezuela risks descending into civil war. The all-out power struggle between President Nicolas Maduro and Juan Guaidó is likely to escalate as Guaidó returned to Venezuela on Monday.