CovidCrimeWatch, NAS-Obs

Smuggling in the time of Covid-19: The impact of the pandemic on human-smuggling dynamics and migrant-protection risks

Smuggling in the time of Covid-19:

... Efforts to counter the COVID-19 pandemic have seen unprecedented restrictions on movement being imposed in many countries, both at borders and within countries. Some communities and policymakers h...

Posted on 28 Apr 2020

Global Initiative

Technology, Anti-Trafficking, and Speculative Futures

... Over the past decade, scholars, activists, and policymakers have repeatedly called for an examination of the role of technology as a contributing force to human trafficking and exploitation. Attentio...

Posted on 27 Apr 2020

Extortion in Central America, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, CAM-Obs

Análisis de fuentes abiertas sobre detenidos por extorsión en el Triángulo Norte, Costa Rica y Panamá (Enero-Marzo 2020)

Extorsión en Centroámerica

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Posted on 27 Apr 2020

CovidCrimeWatch

#CovidCrimeWatch – n°5

... Last week’s #CovidCrimeWatch looked at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on fragile states and conflict zones around the world in light of the UN Secretary General’s call for a global ceasefire...

Posted on 22 Apr 2020

Author(s): Lyes Tagziria

CovidCrimeWatch, ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

Cape Gangs in Lockdown:Saints or sinners in the shadow of COVID-19?

... Did the coronavirus inspire an unprecedented gangland truce in South Africa? Have hardened gangsters really downed their guns and joined forces to deliver food parcels and help to the communities ...

Posted on 22 Apr 2020

Author(s): Rukshana Parker, Michael McLaggan, Kim Thomas

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

People and forests at risk: Organized crime, trafficking in persons and deforestation in Chihuahua, Mexico

People and forests at risk:

... The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), with generous funding from the United States (US) Department of State’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (J/...

Posted on 21 Apr 2020

Author(s): Livia Wagner, Diana Siller, Rosalva Landa

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Captured by the cartels

... In March, the US Department of Justice indicted Nicolás Maduro and other Venezuelan government officials for their alleged involvement in drug trafficking. Would Maduro’s removal from office have ...

Posted on 17 Apr 2020

Author(s): Matt Herbert

CovidCrimeWatch

#CovidCrimeWatch – n°4

... Last week’s #CovidCrimeWatch centred on the nexus between the COVID-19 pandemic and the environment, with a focus on changes in environmental criminal markets. Among the many commodities around the...

Posted on 15 Apr 2020

Author(s): Lyes Tagziria