Crime & Conflict, Gold Watch, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Organized Crime and Illegally Mined Gold in Latin America

Organized Crime and Illegally Mined Gold in Latin America

...Throughout history, man has venerated gold. Gold was the first of the three gifts of the Magi to Jesus. For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, the values of world currencies were fixed in terms of g...

Posted on 30 Mar 2016

Author(s): Livia Wagner

Wildlife Watch

Can Hong Kong become a King Kong in responding to wildlife trafficking?

...Since the days of it being a British colony, and long, long before, Hong Kong has been one of the world’s major trade and shipping centres. Given its geographical location, multiple natural harbours...

Posted on 22 Mar 2016

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, RESPECT

Organized Crime and Illegally Mined Gold in the Americas

...LAUNCH: Organized Crime and Illegally Mined Gold in the Americas Wednesday 6th April, 2-4pm, WMO Building, 2nd Fl, Geneva In the first decade of the 21st century, two trends intersected: soaring gol...

Posted on 22 Mar 2016

Global Initiative

Designing The Next Generation Cyber Security Operations Center

...The Sentient SOC to protect the ‘Internet of Me’ The threat to the users of the Internet, regardless if they are individual users or companies, is increasing in quantity and quality. The various ...

Posted on 18 Mar 2016

Author(s): Troels Oerting

Global Initiative

Annual Report 2015

Annual Report 2015

...This report provides an overview of the activities undertaken by the Global Initiative over the course of the year, and attempts to highlight some of the achievements and impact that the Global Initia...

Posted on 17 Mar 2016

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Resilience Fund

Competing for the title of the world’s most violent city

...Given the rapidly escalating rates of violent crime including homicides fuelled by illicit trafficking activities in Latin America, researchers are struggling to establish which are the most dangerous...

Posted on 14 Mar 2016

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

Brazil’s corruption probe: Rousseff and Lula da Silva in the picture

...Explosive allegations implicating President Dilma Rousseff in the Petrobras corruption scheme have rocked Brazil. Rousseff, the head of Petrobras’s administrative council for seven years, denies kno...

Posted on 11 Mar 2016

Private Sector, RESPECT

Webinar: Responsible Recruitment vs. Human Trafficking of Migrant Workers

...The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime and Babson College’s Initiative on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery presented their webinar on: Responsible Recruitment vs. Human Tr...

Posted on 08 Mar 2016

Global Initiative

The proceeds from opiate trafficking along the Balkan route: where is the money?

...Drug trafficking is first and foremost a business. The common perception that traffickers are evil and weaken the rule of law in general is an over simplification. While this remains true to a certain...

Posted on 07 Mar 2016

Global Initiative

Southeast Asia: from economic integration agenda to TOC

...Southeast Asia experiences an unparalleled economic integration both within ASEAN and with near countries. This not only creates new economic and development opportunities for regional actors but is a...

Posted on 02 Mar 2016

Global Initiative

Cybercrime in West Africa: Poised for an Underground Market

...In some regions of the world, it is a fact that cybercriminal underground markets where criminals sell and/or buy products and services for committing cybercrime exist. But when the phrase “cybercri...

Posted on 01 Mar 2016

Development Dialogue

It’s time to tell the Emperor: the War on Drugs has failed

...Misha Glenny, Author, Journalist and Board Member of the Global Initiative Address at the Future of Borders event, Wilton Park, 25 February 2016 I wish to quote from a recent article from the New Yo...

Posted on 26 Feb 2016