JIED, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Call for Papers: From the Local to the Transnational – Linkages in the North and Central American Drug Trades

...This journal special issue will advance the conversation on illicit drug markets in the Americas by fostering cross-fertilization among different methodologies and perspectives that have been previous...

Posted on 27 Oct 2020

Author(s): John Collins

Global Initiative

States on the Cusp: Overcoming illicit trade’s corrosive effects in Developing Economies

States on the Cusp

...This study is the culmination of two years’ work conducted by the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security in cooperation with the Global Initiative Against Transnational Orga...

Posted on 23 Oct 2020

Author(s): Mark Shaw, Tuesday Reitano, Simone Haysom, Peter Tinti

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

The 10th UN Conference of Parties to the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime

...The review mechanism to the UNTOC was launched at the 10th CoP in Vienna, but this significant milestone in the life of the convention was reached amid subdued media and wider interest, and a continui...

Posted on 23 Oct 2020

Author(s): Ian Tennant

Extortion in Central America, CAM-Obs

Extorsión en Centroámerica: Análisis de fuentes abiertas sobre detenidos por extorsión en el Triángulo Norte, Costa Rica y Panamá

Extorsión en Centroámerica

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Posted on 19 Oct 2020

APA-Obs

Under the shadow: Illicit economies in Iran

Under the shadow

...Illicit economies have become an entrenched part of Iran’s political, economic and cultural life. For some, they offer a way of earning a living in desperately harsh economic circumstances; for othe...

Posted on 19 Oct 2020

CovidCrimeWatch

#CovidCrimeWatch – September

...Ten months on from the outbreak of the novel coronavirus and COVID-19 shows no signs of abating. Following apparent success in many countries around the world in reducing the prevalence of the virus ...

Posted on 14 Oct 2020

Author(s): Lyes Tagziria

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

Virtual training for local leaders against extortion in Central America

...To help strengthen local actors' capacity to enhance community resilience to extortion, on 4 September 2020, 32 Central American participants began a training programme on a virtual platform developed...

Posted on 14 Oct 2020

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

GI-TOC statement at the 10th UNTOC CoP

... The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) has called for a new global strategy against organized crime, in its statement to the 10th Conference of Parties (CoP) to the U...

Posted on 13 Oct 2020

Author(s): Mark Shaw