Assassination Witness, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Murdered for her journalism – María Elena Ferral Hernández

... ‘In this new political landscape, the fight for power will bring carnage … Without a doubt, there will be more political crimes in this region,’ wrote María Elena Ferral on 12 March. Her fo...

Posted on 05 Jun 2020

Author(s): Miguel Ángel León Carmona

CovidCrimeWatch, UN-TOC Watch

Covid-19 and crime: A response develops at the UN

Covid-19 and crime

... During the pandemic, the dynamics of illicit markets have been evident, as we have analyzed in other publications of our COVID Crime Watch series. Cybercrime activities have expanded as lives move de...

Posted on 03 Jun 2020

Author(s): Summer Walker

CovidCrimeWatch

#CovidCrimeWatch – n°11

... In the debate and analysis concerning the interaction between the coronavirus pandemic and organized crime, the focus has largely been on illicit economies and the criminal actors that operate in the...

Posted on 03 Jun 2020

Author(s): Lyes Tagziria

CovidCrimeWatch

Fighting corruption during the coronavirus

... To dive deeper into the emerging relationship between corruption and the COVID-19 crisis response, the Global Initiative spoke with Heather Marquette, professor of development politics at the Univers...

Posted on 03 Jun 2020

Author(s): Heather Marquette

CovidCrimeWatch

A double-edged sword

... Governments around the world are deploying military forces to support the fight against the pandemic. But there are crucial lessons to be learnt from other military interventions during peacetime eme...

Posted on 03 Jun 2020

Author(s): David Danelo, Mark Ronan

CovidCrimeWatch

‘Consent and persuasion’ – community policing in Delhi

... Worldwide, police forces have faced unprecedented challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic. In this interview, Dr Om Mishra shares insights from the responses of the Delhi Police. To gain a law-enf...

Posted on 03 Jun 2020

Author(s): Om Prakash Mishra

CovidCrimeWatch, Wildlife Watch, APA-Obs, ESA-Obs

COVID-19 reveals costly blind spots in efforts to combat wildlife crime

... The coronavirus outbreak shows that oversights in ground-level approaches to combating wildlife crime in southern Africa come at a great price. While the effects of the pandemic can be plotted onl...

Posted on 03 Jun 2020

Author(s): Jacqueline Cochrane

CovidCrimeWatch

Pandemic and punishment

... With the global pandemic, the world has prioritized health, and rightly so. But in the criminal-justice context, there are serious questions about how the state should prioritize the response. To ...

Posted on 03 Jun 2020

Author(s): Laura Adal

CovidCrimeWatch, RESPECT

Aggravating circumstances: How coronavirus impacts human trafficking

Aggravating circumstances:

... The coronavirus is not only claiming hundreds of thousands of lives, but is also causing a global economic crisis that is expected to rival or exceed that of any recession in the past 150 years. Alth...

Posted on 02 Jun 2020

Author(s): Livia Wagner, Thi Hoang

Drug Policy, NAS-Obs

A rising tide: Trends in production, trafficking and consumption of drugs in North Africa

A rising tide:

... This report offers a sizing and analysis of the developing trends around drugs in the Maghreb. It begins by detailing the production of narcotics in the Maghreb, including both cannabis and poppie...

Posted on 01 Jun 2020

Author(s): Matt Herbert, Max Gallien