Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

Latest trends in Cocaine trafficking to Europe

...A new report provides insight into how traffickers move cocaine to the lucrative European market, including the key trafficking routes and smuggling techniques criminal groups have adopted to skirt d...

Posted on 02 Jun 2016

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

What is the relationship between organized crime and homicide in Latin America?

...By Juan Carlos Garzón-Vergara Summary Criminal and gang violence is believed to generate as much as a third of all homicides in the Western hemisphere. In some countries where collective violenc...

Posted on 01 Jun 2016

Global Initiative

Emerging Trends in the OC-CT Nexus

...Global Initiative Network Member, Louise Shelley, Professor and Director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at the School of Public Policy at George Mason Univers...

Posted on 31 May 2016

RESPECT

EVENT: EU Network of National Rapporteurs or Equivalent Mechanisms on Trafficking in Human Beings

...The Global Initiative was invited to speak at the meeting of the EU Network of National Rapporteurs or Equivalent Mechanisms on Trafficking in Human Beings, which took place in Brussels on the 19 and ...

Posted on 31 May 2016

Global Initiative

Conference report: Trails of Insecurity – Illicit Migration as a Source of Threat Financing and Criminal Resourcing in Africa

Conference report: Trails of Insecurity – Illicit Migration as a Source of Threat Financing and Criminal Resourcing in Africa

...  With the recent spike in the levels of global migration – especially from the Middle East and Africa to Europe – and the growth of profits for illicit criminal networks engaged in smuggl...

Posted on 30 May 2016

Global Initiative

A perfect storm? Forces shaping modern migration & displacement

A perfect storm? Forces shaping modern migration & displacement

...In a research collaboration between the Global Initiative and RMMS (the Regional Mixed Migration Secretariat), Head of the Secretariat Tuesday Reitano co-authored a report, "A perfect storm? The facto...

Posted on 25 May 2016

Crime Terror Nexus

EVENT: Breaking the Organized Crime and Counter-Terrorism Nexus

...The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), in partnership with the Thailand Institute of Justice (TIJ) hosted a meeting from 11-13 May, 2016, in Bangkok, to examin...

Posted on 24 May 2016

Protecting Politics

EVENT: Linkages between organised crime, governance, and terrorism in Africa

...[SlideDeck2 id=13466]   During 2014 the late Stephen Ellis was the driving force behind two successful workshops on transnational organised crime held in Cape Town and Johannesburg, respectiv...

Posted on 23 May 2016

Private Sector, RESPECT

Webinar: Consumers in the Global Supply Chain

...The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime and Babson College’s Initiative on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery presented Consumers in the Global Supply Chain Consumers play a...

Posted on 23 May 2016

Development Dialogue

Event: Global Initiative at the 2016 Crime Commission

...The 25th session of the United Nations Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ or UN Crime Commission) was held in Vienna from 23 – 27 May 2016 with some 1000 delegates from the g...

Posted on 23 May 2016

Wildlife Watch

Wildlife Crime: Why do local communities poach?

...   In discussions around southern Africa’s wildlife crime challenges, is usually assumed that there is a high degree of engagement by communities that live adjacent to national parks. Com...

Posted on 23 May 2016

Global Initiative

Drug trafficking drives death penalty usage to a 25 year high

...The level of executions globally has reached a record high, with drug trafficking being by far the leading cause. In its annual report, Death sentences and executions in 2015, Amnesty International...

Posted on 21 May 2016