Development Dialogue, Protecting Politics

GIN Interview: Peter Gastrow, parliamentarian, lawyer and independent expert

...seizures of drugs at airports and roadblocks. Environmental crime, particularly the trafficking of rhino horn, is huge. Just last year, more than 1 000 rhinos were reportedly poached. With regard to cybercrime, it’s now being reported that South Africa is the third-hardest hit country, after Russia and China. Last year, one million people fell victim to cybercriminals. Organized crime certainly...

Posted on 20 Mar 2014

Development Dialogue, Protecting Politics, Wildlife Watch

Analyzing Organized Crime – What to Watch in 2014

Analyzing Organized Crime - What to Watch in 2014

...p ten issues that are going to be important in the year to come. 2014: A marker for the effectiveness of UNTOC, the global instrument against transnational organised crime; Organized Crime on cyber-steroids: how cybercrime is changing the game for all forms of criminal behaviour; Of Presidents and Princes: the global fight against wildlife crime; New paths in the America, gang truces, leg...

Posted on 27 Jan 2014

Global Initiative

Organized crime looks East

...nfluence over East Asia’s criminal underworld. However, the region’s breakneck economic growth has changed the stakes of the game. No longer is East Asia a peripheral market for drug traffickers, cyber criminals, and human smugglers, too small in scope and value to be a target in its own right. Increasing affluence in China, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines have opened up a market for organi...

Posted on 06 Jan 2014

Protecting Politics

Poisoning the Arab Spring: emerging criminal markets

...amphetamine market, according to the latest World Drug Report.  Heroin seizures and usage is one the rise, and recently there have been seizures of cocaine in Syria and Lebanon for the first time.  cybercrime is also an organized crime on the rise in the GCC countries. While the regional conflicts will hopefully stabilize over time, the importance of the Gulf as an emerging market is a trend here ...

Posted on 06 Jan 2014

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

2014: A marker of the effectiveness UNTOC

...eginning of the process, and much more attention would be required if the threat of organized crime was to be reduced in future.  Designed as it was before for example the ascent of the internet and cyber-enabled crime or the clearer recognition of organized crime in conflict and post-conflict states, the Palermo Convention was arguably designed for a threat that has changed rapidly since it first ope...

Posted on 06 Jan 2014

Global Initiative

Analyzing Organized Crime Brief – September 2013

Analyzing Organized Crime Brief- September 2013

...diously into all aspects of our personal and professional lives. This month's "Analyzing Organized Crime" brief explores this theme in greater detail: featuring a report of the panel discussion on cybercrime at the Global Initiative launch, which brought home the extent to which both the internet, and the criminality it enables, are now so vast a response is impossible.  So we have to think strateg...

Posted on 03 Oct 2013

Development Dialogue

Global Initiative launches to a packed room at the UN in NY

...opes to achieve and its priorities for the future. In particular, the Global Initiative is keen to try and add value in three areas, which are represented by the topics of the panel at the launch: on cybercrime, environmental crime, and on improving understanding and responses to the way that organized crime impacts on stability, governance, and development. Read the full text of his speech here. Th...

Posted on 27 Sep 2013

Global Initiative

Global Initiative Launch – 19 September 2013

...independent expert, and Julian Rademeyer, journalist and author of the best-selling book "Killing for Profit - Exposing the illegal rhino horn trade". The final panel will discuss Countering the cybercrime Avalanche, moderated by moderated by Jeff Frazier, General Manager, World Wide Government, National Security and International Organizations, Microsoft, with interventions from Troels Oerting...

Posted on 04 Aug 2013

Protecting Politics

Analyzing Organized Crime Brief – July 2013

Analyzing Organized Crime Brief - July 2013

...ns 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 delinking crime from governance? We pick up debates on cybercrime after the indictment of six men for almost $300 million in illicit profits from identity fraud, whilst a new report from CSIS explores the cost of cyber espionage and IOSCO probes for vulne...

Posted on 31 Jul 2013