Global Initiative

World Drug Report 2014

...The World Drug Report 2014 is aimed at helping the international community to address the toll that illicit drug production, trafficking and consumption continues to take on all our societies, by pro...

Posted on 20 Dec 2014

Global Initiative

Police Ransomware Threat Assessment

...Over the past two years, European Union (EU) Member States (MS) have been confronted with a significant proliferation of police ransomware cases. Experts from both law enforcement and the private sect...

Posted on 18 Dec 2014

Global Initiative

Global Surveillance of Dirty Money: Assessing Assessments of Regimes to Control Money Laundering and CFT

...The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF, Fund) program on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) has been integrally involved in the global system for AML/CFT in coo...

Posted on 12 Dec 2014

RESPECT

Next Generation Human Trafficking and Smuggling Challenges

Next Generation Human Trafficking and Smuggling Challenges

...The Global Initiative and Babson College are pleased to share the recording of the first in our series of six webinars, entitled Next Generation Human Trafficking and Smuggling Challenges. Nationa...

Posted on 11 Dec 2014

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Displaced by organized crime: unseen and forgotten

...In the north-west Mexican state of Sinaloa, thousands of families have been forced to abandon their homes, land and belongings by organized criminal groups. These people, forcibly uprooted by viole...

Posted on 11 Dec 2014

Crime & Conflict

Instability and Opportunities: Illicit Trafficking and Trade in the Sahara

Instability and Opportunities: Illicit Trafficking and Trade in the Sahara

...Mark Shaw and Tuesday Reitano of the Global Initiative Secretariat were invited to contribute to the World Bank's Saharan Knowledge Series with a paper, "Instability and Opportunity: illicit trafficki...

Posted on 11 Dec 2014

Crime & Conflict, Development Dialogue

Sustainable approaches to countering organised crime in Mali and the Sahel

Sustainable approaches to countering organised crime in Mali and the Sahel

...In mid-October, International Alert and the Global Initiative co-hosted a seminar in Bamako, Mali, with representatives of Government, international donors, multi-lateral organisations and internation...

Posted on 01 Dec 2014

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, RESPECT

Webinar: The New American Dream? Illicit migration, human trafficking and smuggling in the Americas

...THE NEW AMERICAN DREAM? ILLICIT MIGRATION, HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SMUGGLING IN THE AMERICAS. Wednesday, 10th December, 10:00 am- 12:00 pm EST and 4:00-6:00 pm CET In the face of what is arguably a m...

Posted on 25 Nov 2014

Global Initiative

Analyzing Organized Crime – November 2014

...Abajo la versión en español Events this month have reminded us of the importance of multi-lateral and cross-sectoral engagement in the fight against transnational organized crime.  On the one hand...

Posted on 24 Nov 2014

Development Dialogue, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Good neighbours: Smuggling across South America’s Triple Frontier

...The daily comings and goings across the Ponte de Amizade (“Friendship Bridge”), which connects the cities of Ciudad del Este, Paraguay, and Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, give a new meaning to the term �...

Posted on 18 Nov 2014

Development Dialogue

Interpol: new responses to the challenges of global policing

...Interpol has just concluded its annual Global Conference in Monaco in November 2014, a highlight event as it marks 100 years since the closed door meeting that originally founded the organisation. ...

Posted on 12 Nov 2014

Protecting Politics

Public protests: Of Governments and Criminals…

...The hills ringing Iguala have secrets. Searchers have been combing the hills for almost a month, seeking any sign of the 43 students who disappeared in Iguala in late September. The students—from a ...

Posted on 04 Nov 2014