Gold Watch, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Private Sector

IOM human trafficking remediation guidelines

...The IOM’s recent Remediation Guidelines for Victims of Human Trafficking in Mineral Supply Chains should encourage business to both prevent and remedy human-rights abuses in their supply chains. ...

Posted on 10 Jul 2018

Author(s): Marcena Hunter, Livia Wagner

Assassination Witness, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

Mexico election

...Mexico’s presidential election opens a new chapter in democracy and security against a backdrop of pervasive violence. Mexicans have voted to change the course of their history. The results of th...

Posted on 05 Jul 2018

Author(s): Siria Gastelum Felix

Private Sector

Costing crime on the balance sheet

...A new Swedish survey has estimated the cost of crime to the private sector as equivalent to 1.2% of the country’s GDP, but the real figure is likely to be much higher. The Confederation of Swedis...

Posted on 04 Jul 2018

Author(s): Karl Lallerstedt

Drug Policy, ENACT

The heroin coast: A political economy along the eastern African seaboard

The heroin coast:

... This report examines the characteristics of the heroin trade off the East African coast and highlights the criminal governance systems that facilitate drug trafficking along these routes. ...

Posted on 02 Jul 2018

Author(s): Simone Haysom, Peter Gastrow, Mark Shaw

Drug Policy, ENACT

Tackling heroin trafficking on the East African coast

... The volume of heroin shipped along a network of maritime routes in East and Southern Africa has increased considerably. New policy approaches are urgently needed. In recent years, the...

Posted on 02 Jul 2018

Author(s): Mark Shaw, Simone Haysom, Peter Gastrow

Drug Policy, NAS-Obs

Tramadol trafficking in Niger

...This, our second of two reports on narcotics trafficking in Niger, looks at the growth in the market for tramadol, a more recent entrant into the regional drugs economy. While the trafficking of dr...

Posted on 25 Jun 2018

Author(s): Peter Tinti

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Organized Crime and Central American Migration in Mexico

...Abstract The following report was researched and written in response to a request by the Mexican Federal Police for an evaluation of the interactions between organized crime and Central American migr...

Posted on 24 Jun 2018