Global Initiative

Justice for Forests: Improving Criminal Justice Efforts to Combat Illegal Logging

...Every two seconds, across the world, an area of forest the size of a football field is clear-cut by illegal loggers.1 In some countries, up to 90 percent of all the logging taking place is illegal.2 E...

Posted on 18 Feb 2012

Global Initiative

Management and Disposal of Confiscated Criminal Assets

...The management and disposal of confiscated assets are important aspects of the overall process of confiscation, but they still remain marginal to the public debate in Bulgaria.  The existing legal...

Posted on 01 Jan 2012

Protecting Politics

Examining the Dimensions, Scale and Dynamics of the Illegal Economy: a study of Pakistan in the region

...Pakistan is uniquely placed in the crime and illegal economy nexus due to its geographic location. This study - the first of its kind in Pakistan - has been commissioned by the United Nations Office o...

Posted on 29 Dec 2011

Global Initiative

Drug Dealers, Drug Lords and Drug Warriors-cum-Traffickers: Drug Crime and the Narcotics Market in Tajikistan

... While there have been many studies and reports on law enforcement agencies’ involvement in the drug trade in Central Asia as well as on general issues of corruption amongst the police, suc...

Posted on 22 Dec 2011

Development Dialogue

War on Drugs: report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy

...The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, and 40...

Posted on 20 Dec 2011

Protecting Politics

Afghanistan’s Drug Career Evolution from a War Economy to a Drug Economy

...The commercial production of drugs in Afghanistan began with the anti-Soviet jihad launched by muja- hedeen groups in 1979 with the financial and logis- tical support of the CIA, the United States and...

Posted on 20 Dec 2011

Global Initiative

Europe and Afghan Heroin

...Too great a focus on traditional security issues can make us lose track of how intertwined they are with the drug problem. The importance of poppy cultivation to the finances of the Taliban and other ...

Posted on 20 Dec 2011

Global Initiative

World Drug Report 2011

...Today there is widespread recognition among Member States and United Nations entities that drugs, together with organized crime, jeopardize the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. It is i...

Posted on 20 Dec 2011

Private Sector

Internet Facilitated Organised Crime

...As a communication tool, information source, marketplace, recruiting ground and financial service the Internet facilitates all types of offline organised criminality, including illicit drug extraction...

Posted on 18 Dec 2011

Private Sector

Protecting Mobile Money against Financial Crimes: Global Policy Challenges and Solutions

...Two and a half billion people in the world live on less than $2 a day, and 90 percent have no access to savings accounts and other financial services. As a consequence, they tend to resort to risky, e...

Posted on 18 Dec 2011

Private Sector

The Fight against Corruption, Industrial Espionage and Economic Crime

...Current estimates place the cost of bribes paid to gain business advantage at US$ 1 trillion annually; the embezzlement of public funds or theft of public assets by corrupt officials is unquantifiable...

Posted on 14 Dec 2011

Gold Watch, Private Sector

Estimating IFFs from Drug Trafficking and other forms of Organized Crime

...“Always follow the money” has been sound advice in law enforcement and political circles for decades. Nevertheless, tracking the flows of illicit funds generated by drug trafficking and organized ...

Posted on 17 Oct 2011
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