Illegal bodies and clandestine security apparatus (CIACS): A type of criminality configured as a network that develops illicit activities of a political, economic and judicial nature, carried out by agents who evade the law by using their influence on the State through corruption, infiltration or co-optation of decision-making processes. INSIGHT CRIME
Illegal mining: Extractive activity of commercially valuable minerals that takes place in prohibited areas such as river banks, lagoons, headwaters, and buffer zones of protected natural areas. AFEO
Immunization: Protection that people get from certain types of diseases by administering effective and safe vaccines that help develop resistance to specific diseases, and increase immunity to those diseases. WHO
Imports: All goods and services purchased abroad. THEBALANCE
Impunity: Lack of punishment or status of a criminal act that has not been sanctioned with the corresponding penalty by law. UNESCO
Incidence: A process that usually aims to influence decisions that may mean fundamental changes in political, economic, social, and institutional systems. OXFORD
Independent media: Social communication media which are free to search, request, and transmit information, according to their editorial line following the truth and evidence of the facts, without external interference or censorship policies. CIMA
Indigenous people: Tribal peoples whose social, cultural, and economic conditions distinguish them from other sections of the national community, and who are governed wholly or partly by their customs or traditions or by special legislation. OHCHR
Indigenous territories: Areas regularly and permanently owned by indigenous people and those that, although not owned in that way, constitute the traditional sphere of their social, economic, and cultural activities. FAO
Induced suicide: Directly inducing another person to commit suicide.
Infant mortality: Annual number of deaths of children under 1 year of age. For purposes of comparison between countries or across years, it is expressed as a Rate per 1,000 Live Births in a given year. WHO
Infants: Children who are breastfed during the first months of life. WHO
Inflation: Sustained and widespread increase in the price level of an economy. THE BALANCE
Informed Consent: An essential requirement of an action or measure concerning persons that consist of informing them and requesting their express and voluntary consent beforehand. PAHO
Institutional strengthening: Improving the capacities of a government and civil society by enhancing their knowledge, skills, and abilities. IOM