ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin #19

Civil Society Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa Issue 19 June–July 2021 Summary highlights It may be the end of an era for the captive lion industry in Sou...

Posted on 09 Jul 2021
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Francisco E. Thoumi

Retired- Economist, Former professor and former Member, International Narcotics Control Board (2012-2020)

...Francisco E. Thoumi is an Economist from the Universidad de Los Andes (Bogotá, 1963), with a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Minnesota (1973). He is a former  Member of the United Nations ...

Posted on 08 Jul 2021
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Mauricio Vieira

Chair on Countering Illicit Trade and Preventing Transnational Organized Crime, University for Peace

...Maurício Vieira is currently Assistant Professor and Chair on Countering Illicit Trade and Preventing Transnational Organized Crime at the University for Peace. He holds a PhD in International Politi...

Posted on 07 Jul 2021
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Moses Atogo Unongu

Principal Intelligence Officer, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP)

...Moses Atogo Unongu is a Professional Human Trafficking Investigator and Certified Law Enforcement Instructor who works with the National Agency for the Prohibition of trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP), ...

Posted on 07 Jul 2021
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Crispin Yuen

Director, Custos Advisory

...Crispin is an award-winning Financial Crime Risk & Compliance specialist with extensive experience in regulatory compliance, risk controls, governance and assurance. He brings a unique combination...

Posted on 07 Jul 2021
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Radha Barooah

Regional Field Coordinator, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

...Radha started working with the GI on its tech initiative, VIVA, in 2020. She then began supporting other initiatives of the Resilience Fund including its Fellowship programs. Radha was an editor, w...

Posted on 06 Jul 2021

Extortion in Central America, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, CAM-Obs

Beyond the threat: The effects of extortion in Guatemala

...Extortion depends on threats of violence and the assumption that the state cannot protect its citizens from those threats. The violence that gangs such as Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and Barrio 18 have p...

Posted on 05 Jul 2021
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Mariana Botero Restrepo

...Mariana has experience in peacebuilding and human rights project management, policy, and political reporting and analysis having worked at the Swiss and British Embassies in Colombia. Mariana has wor...

Posted on 05 Jul 2021

ESA-Obs

Fishy Business: Illegal fishing in Somalia and the capture of state institutions

Fishy Business

...The waters off Somalia are some of the richest fishing grounds in the world and are still largely untapped. Following the steady decline in attacks by Somali pirates since 2012, foreign fishing fleets...

Posted on 02 Jul 2021

Author(s): Jay Bahadur

JIED

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development

...The Journal of Illicit Economies and Development (JIED) is an open access Journal for evidence-driven research and policy commentary. It is an initiative of the LSE International Drug Policy Unit, in ...

Posted on 23 Jun 2021

JIED, RESPECT

Call for Papers: Special Section: The human trafficking – organized crime nexus: Overlaps, vulnerabilities, and responses

...This special section aims to explore and advance the discourse on the overlaps between human trafficking and other organized crime markets, including drug trafficking, extortion, illicit trade, counte...

Posted on 22 Jun 2021

Author(s): Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo, Thi Hoang, Livia Wagner

Extortion in Central America, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Hacia una cultura basada en datos: Retos en la medición de la extorsión en Centroamérica

Hacia una cultura basada en datos

...Extortion is one of the main crimes that negatively affect citizen security in the Northern Triangle of Central America (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador) and, to a lesser extent, Costa Rica and Pa...

Posted on 21 Jun 2021
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