Global Initiative

International Organization for Migration

...The International Organization for Migration (IOM) is the leading inter-governmental organisation in the field of migration. Since its establishment in 1951 it has gathered 162 member states and nine ...

Posted on 06 May 2010

Global Initiative

Afghanistan cannabis survey

... Evidence from cannabis resin seizures have long pointed to Afghanistan as one of the main producer of the drug, similar in magnitude only to Morocco. Information collected by UNODC and the Min...

Posted on 22 Apr 2010

Global Initiative

Human Smuggling and Trafficking into Europe: A Comparative Perspective

...Human smuggling and trafficking are rapidly growing transnational criminal activities that involve the recruitment, movement, and delivery of migrants from a sending region to a destination. This rep...

Posted on 06 Apr 2010

Global Initiative

Useful Websites

Useful Websites

...Please find below a selection of useful and relevant websites regarding human smuggling to the European Union: DG Migration and Home Affairs, European Commission Council of the European Union ...

Posted on 06 Mar 2010

Global Initiative

Organised Crime and Corruption: National Characteristics and Policies of the EU Member‐States

...Based on a statistical analysis of 14 indicators (measuring corruption, organized crime, the effectiveness of government, macro‐economic indicators and the grey economy), seven clusters of countries...

Posted on 01 Jan 2010

Global Initiative

Investigation Of Money Laundering: an Institutional Approach

...The latest research by the Center for the Study of Democracy reveals that the annual revenue from organized criminal activities and corruption amounts to more than BGN 4 – 5 billion per year. This a...

Posted on 01 Jan 2010

Global Initiative

The transatlantic cocaine business – Europe’s options as it confronts new drug trafficking routes

...There is a new dimension to the cocaine trafficking bound for Europe, and this requires more attention. After a significant rise in recent years, it is now estimated that nearly 50 tonnes of cocaine p...

Posted on 24 Dec 2009

Global Initiative

The Impact of Drugs Trafficking, Corruption and Organized Crime

...Since 2005, the Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP) has conducted a research project on the subject of countering narcotics and organized crime in the Baltic Sea region. This project ...

Posted on 21 Dec 2009

Crime & Conflict

Addition, Crime and Insurgency: The transnational threat of Afghan opium

...In September, UNODC published its Afghan Opium Survey 2009 with detailed estimates of cultivation, production, labour force, revenues and domestic prices. This Report is a sort of a sequel: it pre...

Posted on 20 Dec 2009

Global Initiative

Countering Narcotics Smuggling in Europe’s Eastern Neighborhood

...Today, organized transnational criminality is more professional than ever before, and follows the trail of globalization. Much like other business activities, illegal activities are based on good mutu...

Posted on 20 Dec 2009

Global Initiative

World Drug Report 2009

...The end of the first century of drug control (it all started in Shanghai in 1909) coincided with the closing of the UNGASS decade (launched in 1998 by a General Assembly Special Session on Drugs). The...

Posted on 20 Dec 2009

Crime & Conflict, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

Narco‐belligerents Across the Globe: Lessons from Colombia for Afghanistan?

...With the great increases in insecurity in Afghanistan and the overwhelming sense that the counter‐insurgency in Afghanistan is not being won, analysts and policymakers are looking for analogies to u...

Posted on 23 Oct 2009