Global Initiative

Global Initiative Launch – 19 September 2013

...e Global Initiative with its Network of Experts can add value to catalyzing new approaches. The day of meetings will be concluded by a cocktail event co-hosted by the Governments of Norway and Mexico, at the International Peace Institute premises in New York.  ...

Posted on 04 Aug 2013

Protecting Politics

Analyzing Organized Crime Brief – July 2013

Analyzing Organized Crime Brief - July 2013

...licy developments, publications and events around organized crime. The big news in July were the high profile arrests of two infamous Mexican cartel leaders, and the debate on how this will affect Mexico's drug war.  We also look at how two West Africa elections in Mali and Guinea Bissau will be impacted by organized crime and ask whether enough is being done to hold the governments to account for d...

Posted on 31 Jul 2013

RESPECT

Threat or opportunity? Trafficking in persons in the internet era

... human trafficking also. The continuing victimization inherent in many forms of human trafficking provides a relatively durable income stream for transnational criminal groups, for example, along the Mexico-U.S. border drug trafficking organizations have actively engaged in human smuggling and trafficking. Laws against human trafficking, where they exist, tend to be far less harsh than those for drug tr...

Posted on 06 Jul 2013

Drug Policy, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics, Resilience Fund

El Salvador’s Gang Truce: A durable model?

...violent state in Central America, averages 20 murders a day. Much of the violence is attributed to fighting between MS-13 and Barrio 18, transnational gangs with members throughout Central America, Mexico, and the United States. The gangs are deeply involved in organized criminal activity in the region, often acting as hired muscle for local and international drug trafficking organizations. Additiona...

Posted on 06 Jul 2013

Global Initiative

Of meth and men

...in Africa. Seizures of the cheap, potent, and highly addictive drugs have surged worldwide, with methamphetamine seizures alone growing 77% between 2010 and 2011. New production zones have emerged in Mexico and Central America, South-East Asia, and West Africa. Responding to demand, organized crime groups have moved into the market. Mexican DTOs have set up super-labs manufacturing low-cost meth for the...

Posted on 06 Jul 2013

Gold Watch, Private Sector

Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2001-10

...According to the HMN+GER method, the ten countries with the largest outflows of illicit capital (in declining order of magnitude) were China, Mexico, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, the Russian Federation, the Philippines, Nigeria, India, Indonesia, and the United Arab Emirates. Total outflows from China over the decade ending 2010 (US$2,742 billion) exc...

Posted on 12 Dec 2012

Crime & Conflict, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics, Resilience Fund

The Challenge of Violent Drug-Trafficking Organizations

...Drug-related violence has become a very serious problem in Mexico, leading to more than 30,000 deaths in the country between December 2006 and December 2010. Violent drug-trafficking organizations (VDTOs) produce, transship, and deliver into the United States tens ...

Posted on 23 Jun 2011