Latinoamérica y el Caribe, RESPECT

The Nexus of Illegal Gold Mining and Human Trafficking in Global Supply Chains. Lessons from Latin America

...In-depth research carried out by Verité has found that Latin American countries export staggering amounts of illegally mined gold, which is tied to human trafficking, as well as legal and reputationa...

Posted on 05 Jan 2016

Assassination Witness, Protecting Politics

Held to Ransom: An overview of Mozambique’s kidnapping crisis

...A silver Mercedes-Benz pulls into the driveway of a luxury beachfront home on Maputo’s Avenida Marginal. As an electronic security gate begins to close behind the car, four men loitering in the stre...

Posted on 20 Dec 2015

Global Initiative

World Drug Report 2015

...UNODC is pleased to present the findings of the World Drug Report 2015, based on the best available data and our longstanding research expertise in the many complex facets of drugs and crime. Memb...

Posted on 20 Dec 2015

Gold Watch

Gold: underpinning criminal economies and illicit financial flows

...Abajo en Espanol In early December 2015 the Centre for Artisanal Mining Innovation (CAMI) with support from the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies hosted the International Research Roundtable ...

Posted on 19 Dec 2015

Wildlife Watch

How long before CITES crashes?

...Abajo la versión en español. In a little over a month’s time, the CITES Standing Committee will meet for five days in Geneva. This body is made up of regional representatives of the now 181 cou...

Posted on 13 Dec 2015

Global Initiative

Organized Crime and Development – Challenges and Policy Options in West Africa’s Fragile States

...By Judith Vorrath The development implications of transnational organized crime (TOC) have attracted growing attention in Germany and at the international level in recent years. Fragile and conflict...

Posted on 09 Dec 2015

Development Dialogue, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

The Kirchner legacy: Will Macri be able to prevent the ‘Mexicanization’ of Argentina?

...Abajo la versión en español. On the 21st of February of 2015, the Pope sent a letter to Gustavo Vera, a friend and politician in Buenos Aires, in which he expressed his fear that the surge of drug ...

Posted on 09 Dec 2015

Global Initiative

Survive and Advance: The Economics of Smuggling Refugees and Migrants into Europe

The Economics of Smuggling Refugees and Migrants into Europe

...Since 2011 Europe has faced a mounting migration crisis that has played out firstly on its borders, and then within them. A perfect storm of events, including the protracted war in Syria and subsequen...

Posted on 02 Dec 2015

Author(s): Tuesday Reitano, Peter Tinti

Wildlife Watch, SA-Obs

South Africa’s ‘baffling’ judgment to legalise the rhino horn trade explained

...Abajo la versión en español. A South African court’s decision to lift a six-year-old moratorium on domestic trade in rhino horn has sent shockwaves through international environmental circles. ...

Posted on 30 Nov 2015

Author(s): Julian Rademeyer

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Dying for the cause – In Memoriam: Alfredo Ernesto Vracko Neuenschwander

...At about 21:00 local time on Thursday 19 November 2015, a man was executed in his home in rural Peru, shot three times while attempting to retrieve the gun he kept in his house for protection. His...

Posted on 24 Nov 2015

Global Initiative

Bribery and Corruption in the Western Balkans

...Abajo la versión en español. Image credit: Forbes There are many ways in which organized crime can have direct negative impacts on the lives of ordinary citizens. In some cases, these impacts are ...

Posted on 19 Nov 2015

Development Dialogue

Development Responses to Organised Crime: new agendas, new opportunities

Development Responses to Organised Crime: new agendas, new opportunities

...There are a number of significant policy processes advancing that are changing the way that development actors will engage with organized crime programming.  The adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Susta...

Posted on 16 Nov 2015