The only surprise about Jair Bolsonaro’s diagnosis for COVID-19 was that it took him so long to test positive.

Most countries have actually experienced sustained declines in homicidal violence across several decades. Notwithstanding the disruptive effects of COVID-19 and associated economic stresses in 2020, these trends are expected to continue in several parts of the world.

Across the United States, the debate over the future of policing is gathering steam.

Era la perfecta coartada para un miliciano de la zona oeste de Río de Janeiro. Los hermanos Leandro y Leonardo Gouvêa da Silva –apodados Tonhao y Mad –, cabecillas del grupo paramilitar Escritorio del Crimen, fueron detenidos la semana pasada en relación con el asesinato hace 27 meses de la concejal Marielle Franco.

Political analyst Robert Muggah says Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro’s positive COVID-19 test may spell the beginning of the end for his administration

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s positive diagnosis for the coronavirus marks the “beginning of the end” of his administration

The COVID-19 pandemic is quietly and radically reconfiguring cities around the world. It has already brought several of the world’s global cities to their knees.

Horrifying videos of police officers suffocating and shooting Black people in the United States have generated outrage around the world. The killings also triggered demonstrations in thousands of cities and towns in the United States and across the globe, temporarily displacing the COVID-19 pandemic from headlines

Brazil has now surpassed a million COVID-19 cases, a grim milestone for the country with the second most coronavirus infections in the world. It’s been averaging about a thousand deaths per day for the last month

O privilégio de quem tem acesso à internet — e o distanciamento social é garantido apenas para a pequena parcela da população que vive em casas espaçosas

Ao mesmo tempo em que coloca em xeque o futuro dos “open offices” e, consequentemente, deve levar à revisão de políticas de mobilidade, a pandemia provocada pelo novo coronavírus não significa o fim da densidade populacional ou da forma como vivemos nos grandes centros urbanos no mundo.

O presidente brasileiro, Jair Bolsonaro, enfrenta a principal ameaça ao seu poder até agora. Com o país em vias de se tornar o epicentro global da pandemia de Covid-19,

“I can’t breathe.” The final words gasped by George Floyd are now a global meme. They were recorded on the mobile phone of a bystander while Mr. Floyd was being suffocated to death by a police officer in Minneapolis.

Depois de devastar algumas das cidades mais ricas do mundo, a pandemia de coronavírus agora está se espalhando pelas megalópoles dos países em desenvolvimento

Today, roughly 4 billion people live in cities, more than half of the world’s population. According to some analysts, around 600 cities generate two-thirds of global GDP.