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Dr. Kars de Bruijne

Posted on 24 Feb 2025

Global Organized Crime Index, APA-Obs

The decline of media freedom undermines resilience to organized crime in Asia and Oceania

...In September 2024, Cambodian journalist Mech Dara was arrested on charges of inciting social unrest through what the authorities described as ‘provocative’ and ‘false’ social media posts. Dara...

Posted on 24 Feb 2025

Author(s): Bernadette Carreon

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Bernadette Carreon

...Bernadette Carreon is a journalist with nearly two decades of experience covering the Pacific region. She has worked as an investigative reporter for the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Proje...

Posted on 24 Feb 2025

Crime & Conflict, EUR-Obs, UKR-Obs

Future trends in arms trafficking from the Ukraine conflict

Tomorrow's fire

...Given recent announcements, the end game of the Ukraine conflict may be approaching sooner than expected. The pace of negotiations may bring a rapid end to the fighting, but early indications suggest ...

Posted on 18 Feb 2025

Global Initiative

Smoke and mirrors: Afghanistan’s illicit drug economy after the opium ban

...In 2022, Afghanistan accounted for roughly 80 per cent of the world's opiate supply and was a major global exporter of opium and heroin. But in April that year, the newly installed Taliban regime anno...

Posted on 17 Feb 2025

Author(s): Maria Khoruk

Crime & Conflict, Geocriminality, Sanctions and organized crime, UKR-Obs, WEA-Obs

Mercenaries and illicit markets: Russia’s Africa Corps and the business of conflict

Mercenaries and illicit markets:

...The Wagner Group mercenary force and its successor, the Africa Corps, have played a pivotal and controversial role in growing Russia's influence on the African continent. Initially a covert proxy of t...

Posted on 14 Feb 2025

Author(s): Julia Stanyard

25 Feb

Global Initiative

Trafficking and diversion of firearms in Latin America: Responses, reform and responsibility

...Latin America has one of the highest per capita homicide rates in the world. Eighty percent of these deaths are caused by firearms, highlighting the urgent need to address their availability in the re...

Posted on 14 Feb 2025

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Suheidy Hernández Tezcucano, Specialized Consultant in Security, Defense and Justice, Office of the Attorney General of the Republic

...Mtra Hernández Tezcucano has over 19 years of experience in the design and implementation of public security policies, in international liaison and national and hemispheric government policy. She has...

Posted on 14 Feb 2025

AR-Obs

Catatumbo’s cocaine war

...In mid-January 2025, war broke out in Catatumbo, Colombia, between dissidents of the 33rd Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia–People’s Army (FARC) and guerrilla insurgents from the...

Posted on 13 Feb 2025

Author(s): Lina María Asprilla Ríos, Andrés Aponte

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Andrés Aponte

...Andrés Aponte is a consultant analyst at the GI-TOC’s Observatory of Organized Crime in the Andean Region. He has been a researcher and consultant for NGOs, think tanks and government entities. His...

Posted on 13 Feb 2025

14 Feb

Sanctions and organized crime, EUR-Obs, SEE-Obs, UKR-Obs

Steal, corrupt, kill: The evolving face of Transnational Organized Crime

...Transnational organized crime is accelerating and developing, posing a grave threat to international stability and security. Criminal networks are exploiting new technologies and partnerships to compe...

Posted on 11 Feb 2025

Drug Policy, North America Strategic Platform on Organized Crime

Negative side effects: How fentanyl has poisoned relations between the US and Canada

...On 1 February 2025, President Trump issued an executive order ‘Imposing Duties to Address the Flow of Illicit Drugs Across Our Northern Border’. In it, he accused Canada of failing ‘to devote su...

Posted on 07 Feb 2025

Author(s): Jason Eligh, Walter Kemp

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