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Nathaniel Morris

...Nathaniel Morris is the Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at University College London. His book Soldiers, Saints and Shamans: Indigenous Communities and the Revolutionary State in Mexico’s Gran Nayar, 1910–1940 (University of Arizona Press, 2020) explores how some of Mexico’s most independent-minded indigenous peoples – including the Huichol Indians – participated in the Me...

Posted on 21 Jun 2021

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Dr Erica Marat

Associate Professor, National Defense University

... Studies Department. She has previously directed Homeland Defense Fellowship Program at CISA. Dr. Marat’s research focuses on violence, mobilization and security institutions in Eurasia, India, and Mexico. She has authored three books, including most recently The Politics of Police Reform: Society against the State in Post-Soviet Countries (Oxford University Press 2018). Her articles appeared in Forei...

Posted on 16 Jun 2021

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Griselda Triana

Journalist

...Griselda Triana is a journalist, activist and human-rights defender. She is the founder of the Javier Valdez library in Mexico City and host of the radio programme Siempre Vivas, in which she interviews female journalists. She works to strengthen support networks for victims of violence against journalists in Mexico, and in ...

Posted on 14 May 2021

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Deborah Bonello

Journalist

...Deborah is a freelance video journalist based in Mexico City. She has worked as a staff video journalist for the Financial Times and the Los Angeles Times, and now works on a freelance basis for broadcasters and newspapers, shooting, producing and editing...

Posted on 06 May 2021

Drug Policy, UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch

Review of the 64th Commission on Narcotic Drugs

..., which became engaged in the CND after participating in the 2016 special session of the UN General Assembly, said it was time to ‘prioritize the review of the current drug-control architecture’. Mexico, whose legislature has voted to regulate recreational cannabis, called for reforms based on the evolution of illicit markets and the approaches that have not worked. New Zealand said it was time to �...

Posted on 04 May 2021

Author(s): Summer Walker, Ian Tennant

Extortion in Central America, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, North America Strategic Platform on Organized Crime, CAM-Obs

Extortion and forced displacement in Central America

...ration at the United States southern border has put policy with its southern neighbours high on the political agenda once again. In March 2021 alone, about 170 000 migrants were apprehended at the US-Mexico border. Given the intense politicization of immigration in the US domestically and abroad, the Biden administration is eager to act quickly, but many are wondering what will be done differently. The...

Posted on 27 Apr 2021

Author(s): Summer Walker, Guillermo Vazquez del Mercado Almada

11 Mar

Assassination Witness, Resilience Fund, Sustainable Development Goals, UN-TOC Watch

The Global Initiative at the 14th UN Crime Congress in Kyoto

...ld in Kyoto, the host city, supported by an online meeting platform. The GI-TOC organized three ancillary events, and took part in several more, in partnership with the governments of Switzerland and Mexico, and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). We were also pleased to engage with and follow the activities of numerous members of the GI-TOC Network of Experts throughout the congress. Despite t...

Posted on 17 Feb 2021

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Dr. Patricio R. Estévez-Soto

Lecturer (Teaching) for Latin America and The Caribbean, UCL Department of Security and Crime Science

...ment courses to police and security professionals in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as conducts research on crime and security in the LAC region. His research interests focus on crime in Mexico and other developing countries, especially in Latin America and the Caribbean—with particular attention to extortion against businesses and other organised crimes....

Posted on 12 Jan 2021

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Yésica Sánchez Maya

Human Rights Defender, Oaxaca Consortium

... a woman human rights defender and member of the executive team at Consorcio para el Diálogo Parlamentario y la Equidad Oaxaca, a feminist organisation with 15 years of experience working in Oaxaca, Mexico, promoting the recognition, respect and exercise of women’s human rights as well as gender equality. In 2020, in the context of International Human Rights Day, it was announced that the "Movemen...

Posted on 12 Jan 2021

Drug Policy

Smoke signals: The evolving status of cannabis under the international drug-control regime

...ee voted against the proposition, in line with expectations. In East Asia, Thailand (another socially conservative monarchy) voted in favour, while Japan and China voted against. In Latin America, Mexico, Colombia, El Salvador and Ecuador voted in favour while Chile, Cuba and Peru voted against, reflecting the general split on drug policy that has been apparent in recent years (despite the political ...

Posted on 23 Dec 2020

Author(s): Ian Tennant, John Collins, Jason Eligh

UN-TOC Watch

Agreements and Disagreements on the Road to Kyoto

...aches to cyber elsewhere in the document. There is also a bone of contention in how the declaration encourages member states to use technology to fight crime. Western countries have teamed up with Mexico and Honduras to insist that a commitment to use technological tools comes with a commitment to respect for human rights in doing so. This is being resisted by Iran, China, Guatemala, Venezuela, Egypt...

Posted on 09 Dec 2020

Author(s): Ian Tennant

IASOC

OC24: The Podcast

Posted on 08 Dec 2020

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