Drug Policy

The evolution of illicit drug markets and drug policy in Africa

The evolution of illicit drug markets and drug policy in Africa

... This continental report reflects on the changing drug policy environment in Africa. Globally, support for drug policy reform has grown over the past 10 years. Even as the drug prohibition consensu...

Posted on 09 Jul 2019

Author(s): Jason Eligh

ENACT, WEA-Obs

Trafficking in persons in conflict contexts

... This brief draws on field research conducted on trafficking in persons in four protracted conflicts in Africa – Central African Republic, Libya, Nigeria and Somalia – to explore what constitut...

Posted on 09 Jul 2019

Author(s): Tuesday Reitano, Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo

Resilience Fund

Resilience Fund Expert Stakeholder Meeting

... An expert stakeholder meeting of the Civil Society Resilience Fund Against Organized Crime took place on 22–23 May 2019, preceded by a launch event for the new fund on 21 May. More than 40 stakehol...

Posted on 08 Jul 2019

Drug Policy, Resilience Fund

Supporting Safe Spaces (Tanzania)

... ‘Supporting Safe Spaces’: a resilience shelter for women and girls who are affected by drug use and Tanzania’s war on drugs has been opened in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on 15 June 2019. The l...

Posted on 05 Jul 2019

Drug Policy

Domestic drug consumption in Ghana

Domestic drug consumption in Ghana

... West Africa’s emergence in the mid-2000s as a transit hub in the international illicit drugs trade and the consequent surge in the quantity of drugs transiting through the region have been well doc...

Posted on 04 Jul 2019

Extortion in Central America, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Central America’s criminal culture: Lessons for Mexico

... Extortion is becoming more pervasive in Mexico, in a region already notorious for its criminal culture. Can Mexico learn from its southern neighbours’ experience of underground criminal-economy reg...

Posted on 04 Jul 2019

Author(s): Guillermo Vazquez del Mercado Almada

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Resilience Fund

Diálogos para la Resiliencia – Nebaj Quiché, Guatemala 2019

... Community leaders, journalists and youth share experiences to fight against different forms of violence. Looking for common goals and reaching agreements to have resilient communities. ...

Posted on 03 Jul 2019

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Resilience Fund

GIResilience – Magno Concierto: Música Sobre el Muro

... With the support of the Global Initiative and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, the organization Derechos Humanos Integrales en Accion (DHIA), which has worked since 2014 at p...

Posted on 02 Jul 2019

Author(s): Gabriella E. Sanchez