Drug Policy, Global Organized Crime Index, EUR-Obs

Under pressure: Is the EU ready to counter the global cocaine trade?

...In May 2022, Europol and the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) warned that the cocaine and methamphetamine markets in Europe were a growing threat. More needs to be done...

Posted on 08 Jul 2022

Author(s): Alejandra Gómez Céspedes

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Alejandra Gómez Céspedes

Criminologist

...Alejandra Gómez Céspedes is a criminologist. She has worked at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; the Andalusian Interuniversity Institute of Criminology; and the Center of Excellence for...

Posted on 08 Jul 2022
12 Jul

Resilience Fund, SEE-Obs

Youth activism: Challenges and Opportunities

...In this webinar, we will explore challenges youth are facing as active citizens in Albania and how these challenges affect youth’s involvement in organized crime. We wish to create a community of p...

Posted on 05 Jul 2022
07 Jul

MMFU, Sustainable Development Goals, UN-TOC Watch, Wildlife Watch

The illicit wildlife trade: Developments, responses, and lessons learned to support SDG 15

...This year’s High Level Political Forum at the UN will bring a focus to SDG 15: Life on Land, and with it Targets 15.7 Eliminate Poaching and Trafficking of Protected Species and Target 15.C Combat G...

Posted on 01 Jul 2022
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Ben Spatz

...Ben Spatz has been working on Liberia since 2005, has served on the UN Panel of Experts on Liberia (including as the arms expert adviser), and previously acted as special adviser to the government of ...

Posted on 30 Jun 2022
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Gregory Coleman

...Gregory Coleman is the founder of Sustainable Initiatives International (SII), which works to address community concerns. Previously, Gregory was Inspector General of the Liberia National Police, Ch...

Posted on 30 Jun 2022

ENACT

Veneers of governance: Lessons from Liberia’s growing vulnerability

Veneers of governance:

... This paper unpacks how the international community's efforts to strengthen Liberia's state institutions have created pathways for corruption. Liberia is entering a period of enhanced ...

Posted on 30 Jun 2022

Author(s): Gregory Coleman, Ben Spatz

Crime & Conflict, Drug Policy, Global Organized Crime Index, Gold Watch, WEA-Obs

West Africa Risk Bulletin #4

Observatory of illicit economies in West Africa

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF fr Français Observatory of Illicit Economies in West Africa Issue 4 June 2022 Summary highlights Cattle rustling spikes in Mali amid increasing political isolation: Mopti r...

Posted on 30 Jun 2022

SEE-Obs

Dangerous games: Football hooliganism, politics and organized crime in the Western Balkans

Dangerous games

...Explore the tool Football hooliganism has received considerable attention from sociologists and anthropologists, who analyze its cultural aspects, and the police, who look at how to prevent and...

Posted on 27 Jun 2022

Author(s): Sasa Djordjevic, Ruggero Scaturro

NAS-Obs

Human smuggling and trafficking in North Africa and the Sahel – 2022

Human smuggling and trafficking ecosystems: North Africa and the Sahel

...Since 2018, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) has undertaken a monthly monitoring programme focused on the political economy of human smuggling and trafficking in No...

Posted on 22 Jun 2022

Author(s): Mark Micallef, Matt Herbert, Alice Fereday, Rupert Horsley, Peter Tinti, Jessica Gerken

#GIDisappearances, Assassination Witness, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Resilience Fund, CAM-Obs

Los frutos de la resiliencia

...The fruits of resilience New law on the protection of journalists approved in Sinaloa On 15 May 2017, the murder of Javier Valdez shocked Mexico. Part of a wave of violence against journalists...

Posted on 21 Jun 2022

Author(s): Adrián Ancira Ortega

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Adrián Ancira Ortega

Communications Officer - Latin America and Resilience Fund, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

...With a background in advertising, he has more than 18 years of experience in communication strategies, audiovisual and print production, creative strategies and institutional communication. As an inde...

Posted on 21 Jun 2022
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