Assassination Witness, Protecting Politics, SA-Obs

Hitmen for Hire: Exposing South Africa’s Underworld

Hitmen for Hire: Exposing South Africa’s Underworld

...How, when and where organised crime is involved in violent activities has been the focus of several reports from the Global Initiative in different contexts. Measuring violence provides ways...

Posted on 29 Aug 2017

Author(s): Mark Shaw

Wildlife Watch

Enhancing the Detection, Investigation and Disruption of Illicit Financial Flows from Wildlife Crime

...Wildlife crime poses a serious threat to thousands of species of plants and animals, which in some cases are being pushed to the brink of extinction. It is a global issue affecting almost every jurisd...

Posted on 25 Aug 2017

Assassination Witness, SA-Obs

Hitmen for Hire: Exposing South Africa’s Underworld (video)

...Contract killing and targeted “hits” in South Africa have become widespread and deeply embedded into parts of the country’s history of systemic corruption. While communities in South Africa have...

Posted on 18 Aug 2017

RESPECT

La trata de personas en zonas de conflicto

...Original: https://globalinitiative.net/human-trafficking-conflict/ A medida que se multiplican e intensifican los conflictos regionales en todo el mundo, prolongándose en el tiempo e involucr...

Posted on 02 Aug 2017

Global Initiative

How Libya’s Fezzan Became Europe’s New Border

...Executive Summary European policymakers increasingly are looking at the Fezzan, Libya’s vast and scarcely populated south west, as their frontier against sub-Saharan African migrants and refugees t...

Posted on 31 Jul 2017

Crime & Conflict

Event: Expert Group meeting on captagon trafficking

...On the 27th of July, the Global Initiative invited to an expert roundtable in Beirut, Lebanon. The intense discussion resulted in an agreement that not enough attention is being paid to captagon an...

Posted on 27 Jul 2017

ENACT, Wildlife Watch

Deadly Profits: Illegal Wildlife Trafficking through Uganda and South Sudan

...Countries that act as transit hubs for international wildlife trafficking are a critical, highly profitable part of the illegal wildlife smuggling supply chain, but are frequently overlooked. While co...

Posted on 24 Jul 2017

Global Initiative

Global Synthetic Drugs Assessment

...Unlike the manufacture of heroin and cocaine, the manufacture of synthetic drugs is not geographically constrained, as the process does not involve the extraction of active constituents from plants th...

Posted on 20 Jul 2017

ENACT

ENACT Regional Organised Crime Observatories: Foundation workshop

...In July 2017, the ENACT consortium hosted a foundational expert group meeting in Cape Town. The ENACT flagship activities include the creation of five regional organised crime observatories across Afr...

Posted on 20 Jul 2017

Global Initiative

Bringing the desert together: How to advance Sahel-Maghreb integration

...By Andrew Lebovich  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Global interest in the Sahel has expanded significantly in recent years. The growth of regional terrorism, the collapse of Malian State in 2012, and the mig...

Posted on 18 Jul 2017

RESPECT

Enhancing Detection of Human Trafficking Act

...(Sec. 3) This bill directs the Department of Labor to implement a program to: (1) train and periodically retrain relevant Labor personnel to detect and assist law enforcement in preventing human traf...

Posted on 13 Jul 2017

Private Sector, RESPECT

Corporate Social Responsibility in China’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Sector

...The report is the result of a project designed to identify and test strategies and activities that will most likely improve social and environmental conditions and also provide business benefits to th...

Posted on 12 Jul 2017