Hook. Black Lives Matter emerged as a national movement after the 2013 acquittal in the Trayvon Martin killing and the 2014 Ferguson protests, then expanded dramatically after the police murder of George Floyd in May 2020. At stake is not one organization or slogan but the sustained political pressure around po…
Hook. Jair Bolsonaro won Brazil's 2018 presidential runoff and took office in 2019, converting a fragmented anti-establishment campaign into control of Latin America's largest executive government; he won the October 2018 runoff with about 55 percent of the valid vote and took office on 1 January 2019
Republika Srpska, or the Republic of Srpska, is one of the two political "entities" of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Situated in the northern and eastern regions of the country, it recorded a population of 1,228,423 in the 2013 census. Its administrative centre and largest city is Banja Luka, located on the banks of the Vrbas River.
Hook. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defeated Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil's 2022 presidential runoff and took office after a transition that tested whether a polarized democracy could transfer power despite sustained attacks on the voting system. Official election results are published by Brazil's Superior Electoral Court
Hook. Brazil's Senate opened a parliamentary inquiry into the federal government's COVID-19 response in April 2021, after one of the world's deadliest national pandemic tolls. At stake is government accountability for procurement, public messaging, health-system pressure and delays or failures during a mass-casualty public-health emergency. Accountab…
Fossil-Fuel Dependence is a continuing, time-varying factor within energy and natural resources. It is modeled as a Driver because its intensity, capacity, or prevalence can change across reporting periods and can transmit the effects of multiple events, decisions, and institutions to later outcomes. It is not a dated event, a person, an organization, a welfare score, o…
The Myanmar civil war began following the military coup on 1 February 2021. The seizure of power triggered mass anti-coup demonstrations and a violent crackdown by the Tatmadaw, which significantly escalated the country's longstanding insurgencies.
The 7 October 2023 Hamas-led attack belongs in Factrail as dated Facts documenting killings, hostage-taking, rocket fire and other acts established by evidence. The continuing military conflict, siege, displacement, destruction, humanitarian deprivation and later phases belong on the canonical Israel–Gaza war
State-engineered famine is a coercive political mechanism in which state policy materially creates, intensifies, or deliberately maintains mass hunger through requisition, confiscation, movement restrictions, denial of relief, punishment, or other controls over access to food. It is not ordinary food inflation, a bad harvest, or a generic poverty driver. The distinction matters because the causal…
The Woman, Life, Freedom protests began after the death in custody of Jina Mahsa Amini in September 2022 and became a nationwide challenge to compulsory veiling, gender discrimination, coercive policing, and broader restrictions on political and social freedom in Iran. The criticism-first record starts with the state's response: the UN fact-finding mission found gross human-rights violations in th…