Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

The Resurgence of Violent Crime in Tijuana

...A new Justice in Mexico policy brief by Jaime Arredondo Sánchez Lira, Zulia Orozco, Octavio Rodríguez Ferreira, and David A. Shirk, entitled The Resurgence of Violent Crime in Tijuana, provides an a...

Posted on 15 Feb 2018

Assassination Witness, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

Placing violence at the centre: new paradigms for approaching organised crime in Tijuana

...Organised crime related deaths in Mexico reached record highs in 2017, according to the watchdog agency Semáforo Delictivo and Lantia Consultores and reporting from InSight Crime. In part, the rise i...

Posted on 15 Feb 2018

Author(s): Julia Stanyard

22 Feb

RESPECT

Illegal Logging, Environmental Crime, and Human Trafficking

...The environmental crime of illegal logging creates a layered web of exploitation. Natural resources, protected lands, and threatened species of plants and trees are exploited as well as trafficked lab...

Posted on 15 Feb 2018
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Rob Wainwright

Senior Cyber Partner, Deloitte

...Rob Wainwright is a Senior Cyber Partner at Deloitte. Prior to this, he had been the Executive Director of Europol until May 2018. Appointed in 2009, he led the transformation of the agency into a wor...

Posted on 14 Feb 2018

ENACT, Sustainable Development Goals, UN-TOC Watch

The Crime-Development Paradox: Organised Crime and the SDGs in Africa

Organised Crime and the SDGs in Africa

...Organised crime presents a manifold threat to sustainable development. This is recognised by theSustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2063.  However, policy statements fail to translate to the imp...

Posted on 14 Feb 2018

Author(s): Tuesday Reitano, Marcena Hunter

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

The essential role of civil society in the UNTOC and UNCAC review processes

...The role of civil society in the UN Conventions against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and against Corruption (UNCAC) has been a contested issue. Although the importance of civil-society partic...

Posted on 12 Feb 2018

Author(s): Ugljesa (Ugi) Zvekic, Julia Stanyard

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

UN, pay attention to prevention!

...Crime prevention necessitates an integrated mix of initiatives, not just those that fall within the scope of criminal law and justice systems, but also the wider social and cultural spheres. There ...

Posted on 12 Feb 2018

Author(s): Ugljesa (Ugi) Zvekic

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Julia Stanyard

Senior Analyst, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

...Julia Stanyard is a Senior Analyst working on the Global Initiative’s Organised Crime Observatory for East and Southern Africa. She works on editing the Risk Bulletin of Illicit Economies in East an...

Posted on 12 Feb 2018
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Stefano Betti

International Security and Criminal Policy Expert

...Stefano Betti has twenty years of experience in providing legal and policy advice to governments and international organisations on global security and criminal policy/justice. Over the past five year...

Posted on 07 Feb 2018
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Nils Krauer

...Nils has studied history and social science at the University of Basel (Switzerland) and the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne I (France) focusing on social conflicts and development politics. Long stays...

Posted on 06 Feb 2018

UN - Security and Rights, UN-TOC Watch

UN peace operations and organized crime: ‘serious risk but little strategic guidance’

...Organized crime is a fairly new and foggy issue in the field of UN peace operations (even though scholars have increasingly recognized the importance of criminal agendas in post-conflict politics). Th...

Posted on 06 Feb 2018

Author(s): Arthur Boutellis, Stephanie Tiélès

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Stephanie Tiélès

...Stephanie Tiélès is an expert in transnational organized crime, with 18 years’ experience with the French police. She previously served in the UN Police Division’s Standing Police Capacity, wher...

Posted on 06 Feb 2018
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