Some 60,000 Brazilians are killed each year, accounting for 10% of all homicides worldwide. As terrorised voters look to authoritarian leaders to impose order, Brazil's democracy hangs in the balance.
Anger pits young people against police following an accusation of police brutality.
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Christian Mouhanna, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines – Université Paris-Saclay
Governments' continual use of security forces to 'keep order' in low-income and minority neighborhoods masks their inability find solutions other than force.
University students use a mattress as a shield against rubber bullets.
REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
Protest movements become radicalised by two factors: escalating policing and competitive escalation between political adversaries and other protesting groups.
Protesters call for the arrest of an officer who shot dead unarmed motorist Terence Crutcher.
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Protests erupted against the killing of black men by police in Tulsa and Charlotte. This roundup looks at research on racial violence and explains where there might be potential solutions.
South Africa’s elite police unit, the Hawks, block a street during an operation.
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The main criticism leveled at the body that oversees the work of South Africa's elite police unit, the Hawks, is that it lacks the power to initiate investigations, making it ineffective.
Meshack Mavuso played the role of ‘The Man with the Green Blanket’ in ‘Marikana the Musical’
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Two musicals set in working class mining communities -- one in the UK and the other in South Africa -- have diametrically opposed messages: one of hope; the other, despair.
Protesters on the one-year anniversary of Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Missouri.
REUTERS/Rick Wilking
Do Americans view all youth as equally 'innocent'? A historian takes us back to the movement that led to unequal treatment of black and white youth in the justice system.
A historian examines what it means to value black life, then and now.
Riot police detain a supporter of Forum for Democratic Change, Uganda’s leading opposition party, as they break up a campaign procession.
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