Global Initiative

The UK has laws in place to combat money laundering, but can it enforce them?

...Professional enablers, such as lawyers, accountants and corporate service providers, play a central role in facilitating illicit financial flows by providing the structures, legitimacy and anonymity t...

Posted on 25 Aug 2026

Author(s): Jennifer Okeyo-Robert

Assassination Witness

Who pays for a murder? The Daphne Caruana Galizia trial

...Who pays for a murder?...

Posted on 25 Aug 2026

Global Initiative

Breaking the human smuggling policy trap

Breaking the human smuggling policy trap

...Small boat crossings of the English Channel have fallen sharply in 2026, and the temptation in Whitehall will be to treat that as a problem solved. It is not. While the fall is real, and the enforceme...

Posted on 24 Aug 2026

Author(s): Tuesday Reitano

Global Initiative

How drones are exposing the limits of international arms control 

...Few innovations have spread through conflict and organized crime as rapidly as drones. When police in Rio de Janeiro raided the Comando Vermelho gang in 2025, they were faced with a barrage of bombs d...

Posted on 20 Aug 2026

Author(s): Paddy Ginn

Global Initiative

How organized crime became embedded in Italy’s agricultural sector

...In early June 2026, four migrant farmworkers were burnt to death in a car at a petrol station in Calabria, southern Italy, following an alleged dispute over unpaid wages. This case once again broug...

Posted on 17 Aug 2026

Author(s): Giulia D’Amico

CSA-Obs

Human rights abuses in the Taliban’s drug control regime

Human rights abuses in the Taliban's drug control regime

...This report presents the initial findings of a significant field research on the conditions at drug treatment centres in Afghanistan, the broader situation of people who use drugs (PWUD) in the countr...

Posted on 13 Aug 2026

Global Initiative

A growing number of migrants are turning to reverse smuggling to leave the UK 

...In February 2023, French border police opened a truck in Calais and found 58 people hidden inside. At first glance, it appeared to be a typical case of Channel smuggling. But this journey was running ...

Posted on 12 Aug 2026

Author(s): Giulia D’Amico

SEE-Obs

Bosnia and Herzegovina returns to the FATF grey list despite years of anti-money laundering reforms

...Bosnia and Herzegovina has been placed on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list for the second time in a decade, after failing to demonstrate the effectiveness of its anti-money laundering ...

Posted on 11 Aug 2026

Author(s): Anesa Agovic Djozo

NAS-Obs, WEA-Obs

Cocaine and conflict in Mali, Niger, and Libya

Cocaine and conflict in Mali, Niger, and Libya

...Since the early 2000s, the central Sahel–Libya corridor has been an important cocaine trafficking route linking West Africa and North Africa with European consumption markets. Although most cocaine ...

Posted on 07 Aug 2026