RESPECT

Countering Human Trafficking through Business and Human Rights (the ruggie principles)

...On 2 June 2015 in The Hague, the Global Initiative and the Hague Institute for Global Justice convened an Expert Roundtable and Panel Discussion on Countering Human Trafficking through the United Nati...

Posted on 09 Jun 2015

Wildlife Watch

Wildlife in Crisis – Seminar Summaries

...Abajo la versión en español The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, with the Centre for Criminology at the University of Cape Town and the Conservation Action Trust, hosted�...

Posted on 05 Jun 2015

Development Dialogue, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

The Jalisco Cartel: Mexico’s New Menace

...Despite being one of the youngest cartels, the “Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación” or New Generation Jalisco Cartel, (CJNG), has gained quick notoriety. The attention derives not only from its rapi...

Posted on 28 May 2015

Wildlife Watch

Interview: Alejandro Nadal, Prof. of Economics, University of Mexico

...Prof. Alejandro Nadal, Prof. of Economics, Centre for Economics, Colegio de Mexico, discusses the possible implications of the legalisation of domestic sale in rhino horn in South Africa....

Posted on 28 May 2015

Wildlife Watch

Interview: Paula Kahumbu, Hands off our Elephants Campaign

...Paula Kahumbu is the Executive Director of WildlifeDirect, talks to Peter Gastrow about their Hands Off Our Elephants campaign, launched in 2013. One of the Kenya’s most influential conservation ...

Posted on 17 May 2015

Wildlife Watch

Interview: Bonaventure Ebayi, Head of the Lusaka Taskforce

...GIN Interview: Bonaventure Ebayi, Head of the Lusaka Agreement on Cooperative Law Enforcement...

Posted on 16 May 2015

Crime & Conflict, Crime Terror Nexus

Libya: Criminal economies and terrorist financing in the trans-Sahara

Libya: Criminal Economies and Terrorist Financing in the Trans-Sahara

...   The Security Council will vote this week on an EU proposal to allow military action in Libya's waters to stop the illicit migration across the Mediterranean. While addressing these fl...

Posted on 12 May 2015

Author(s): Private: Christian Nellemann, Tuesday Reitano, Mark Shaw

Wildlife Watch

Illicit Migration to Europe: Consequences of Illegal Fishing and Overfishing in West Africa

Illicit Migration to Europe

...Abajo la versión en español The populations of West Africa, home to one of the world’s most resource-rich marine environments, is suffering widespread poverty and a paucity of legitimate livel...

Posted on 08 May 2015

Crime & Conflict, Drug Policy, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Resilience Fund

Drugs and Drug Trafficking in Brazil: Trends and Policies

...Urban violence and crime have been rising in Brazil for the past four decades, despite progressive improvement in the country’s social and economic conditions.1 Violence is usually recognized as a m...

Posted on 05 May 2015

Crime & Conflict, Drug Policy

Crime, Violence, and Politics: Drug Trafficking and Counternarcotics Policies in Mali and Guinea

...This paper examines the current state of counternarcotics policies and policy reform debates in Mali and Guinea, two West African countries that in recent years have been significantly affected, to va...

Posted on 05 May 2015

Global Initiative

Wildlife in Crisis: a 3-evening public debate

...You are most cordially invited to join us for a 3-evening seminar hosted at the University of Cape Town, from the 18-20 May, 18:00 - 20:30 CET.  The meeting will also be live streamed. To regi...

Posted on 04 May 2015

RESPECT

Living the dream? Human Trafficking, the other organized crime problem in sports

...Abajo la versión en español. Where there is money to be made there will be crime. This expression is no truer than in the case of professional sports. Whether in proven cases of match fixing such...

Posted on 27 Apr 2015