Brazil’s current president Jair Bolsonaro is currently not expected to win the general election.
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After a very divisive election campaign, the winner of the Brazilian election will need to reuite the country.
The Tadamon neighbourhood pictured in 2018.
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Two academics have identified the perpetrators of a massacre committed in 2013 by Syrian loyalist forces. An episode that says a lot about the reality of Syria in the last 10 years.
QAnon members participate in a protest against the counting of electoral votes in Washington, DC, which affirmed President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
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Women have assumed different roles in alt-right movements, including organizing protests, spreading misinformation and organizing militias.
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Young people who experienced violence between other family members, and had been directly subjected to abuse, were 9.2 times more likely to use violence in the home.
Physical assaults against educators are on the rise.
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Calls for tougher laws against assaults on teachers have been thwarted by efforts to keep kids in school.
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We found 81% of gender-diverse people reported experiencing violence from a coach.
Women displaced from rural villages in the Anglophone region gather to wash clothes in a stream.
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Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis could escalate into a complex disaster emergency with dire environmental consequences.
Protesters demand the freedom of the Sahrawi population.
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Long considered a frozen conflict, the Western Sahara dispute roared back to life in late 2020, reviving old wounds and inflicting fresh ones.
A recent inquest examined the deaths of Carol Culleton, Nathalie Warmerdam and Anastasia Kuzyk, and focused on the dynamics of gender-based violence.
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A recent jury examining murders of women urged the federal government to add the term femicide and its definition to the Criminal Code.
Atlanta Braves outfielder Ender Inciarte argues with home plate umpire Doug Eddings during a game against the Arizona Diamondbacks.
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High temperatures make baseball players and coaches more irritable, and are associated with an increase in violence.
The aftermath of the looting and violence of July 2021 in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal.
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South Africa needs a multi-pronged strategy for building peaceful, sustainable neighbourhoods, communities, and a nation where the rule of law prevails.
A family poses in front of their sod house in Custer County, Neb., in 1887.
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The ways Americans talk about firearms is full of contradictions, two communication scholars explain – and that powerfully shapes the country’s approach to gun policy.
Family members wash away blood at the scene of a shooting in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, where seven people were shot dead in May.
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The study highlights the flimsy boundaries between different forms of violence: torture and extrajudicial punishment, lawful arrest, and an unlawful kidnapping.
Most research on poverty has focused on the effects on mothers, but a new study shows the importance of turning increased attention to fathers’ mental health.
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In families that are facing economic insecurity, fathers are more likely to experience depressive symptoms that can lead to conflict.
A burnt car in the middle of a road following deadly clashes between supporters of the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party at Kofa in Bebeji district of Kano, economic nerve centre of northern Nigeria.
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All actors in the electoral processes in Nigeria must work together to ensure peaceful elections.
Protesters and police clash as South Africans march against immigrants.
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Undoubtedly, barbarity lies at the epicentre of modernity.
The Depp v. Heard trial provides a chance to shine a light on intimate partner violence.
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Intimate partner violence can take many forms – and it doesn’t always fit society’s stereotypes.
In 1970, a 16-year-old Laotian boy drew a picture of his school being bombed. ‘Many people’ died, he wrote, ‘But I didn’t know who because I wasn’t courageous enough to look.’
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Their drawings and paintings often express a mix of horror, fear, hope and beauty.
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A look at what was happening in the lives of young people one year before they started carrying a weapon.
A man flees from teargas fired by anti-riot police in Nairobi after Kenya’s 2017 elections.
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To predict - and prevent - election-related violence, it’s important to first understand the key drivers of conflict.