Assassination Witness, SA-Obs

The rule of the gun: Hits and assassinations in South Africa, 2000-2017

The rule of the gun:

...Summary This report presents an analysis of data on hits (contract killings) carried out in South Africa. The data has been compiled as part of the work of a collaborative project, Assassination Wi...

Posted on 14 Mar 2018

Author(s): Kim Thomas

Global Initiative

Why do migrants die in trucks? – Interview to David J. Danelo

...Why do migrants die in trucks?...

Posted on 13 Mar 2018

Sustainable Development Goals, UN-TOC Watch

Stopping the smugglers: Objective 9 of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration

...On 5 February, the 'Zero Draft' of the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration* was released by co-facilitators Mexico and Switzerland. The draft, which reflects the views of member sta...

Posted on 12 Mar 2018

Author(s): Samantha McCormack, Tuesday Reitano

Assassination Witness, Protecting Politics, Resilience Fund, SEE-Obs

Protecting the criminal complex

...The recent killing of Slovakian journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kusnirova, is the second assassination of a journalist in the EU in the past few months. Prominent Maltese investigative...

Posted on 07 Mar 2018

Private Sector

Free trade, human smuggling and international border management: for protection or profit?

Free trade, human smuggling and international border management: for protection or profit?

...For the past two decades, policy officials and human-rights groups in both Europe and the US have participated in a vicious cycle of criticizing each other over the impact of border-control policies. ...

Posted on 07 Mar 2018

Author(s): David Danelo

Wildlife Watch

World Wildlife Day 2018: Sustaining the future of big cats

...Allocating a day in the year to coalesce people’s attention around a particular challenge faced by the global community often invites scepticism. What exactly is achieved by proclaiming a special da...

Posted on 03 Mar 2018

Author(s): John M. Sellar OBE, Mark Shaw

Wildlife Watch

Bone of contention: Pragmatism versus ideology in countering poaching and wildlife trafficking

...Over the past decade, poaching and wildlife trafficking have devastated wildlife populations around the world. Environmental threats, such as climate change, deforestation and other forms of habitat d...

Posted on 01 Mar 2018

Author(s): Vanda Felbab-Brown

UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

Can meaningful drug-policy reform rise from the ashes of UNGASS?

...In the build-up to the UN General Assembly Special Session on Drugs (UNGASS) in April 2016, optimism for policy reform reached fever pitch. Daily news articles highlighted the failures of the so-calle...

Posted on 26 Feb 2018

Author(s): John Collins