ENACT

ENACT Regional Organised Crime Observatories: Foundation workshop

...In July 2017, the ENACT consortium hosted a foundational expert group meeting in Cape Town. The ENACT flagship activities include the creation of five regional organised crime observatories across Afr...

Posted on 20 Jul 2017

Global Initiative

Bringing the desert together: How to advance Sahel-Maghreb integration

...By Andrew Lebovich  EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Global interest in the Sahel has expanded significantly in recent years. The growth of regional terrorism, the collapse of Malian State in 2012, and the mig...

Posted on 18 Jul 2017

RESPECT

Enhancing Detection of Human Trafficking Act

...(Sec. 3) This bill directs the Department of Labor to implement a program to: (1) train and periodically retrain relevant Labor personnel to detect and assist law enforcement in preventing human traf...

Posted on 13 Jul 2017

Private Sector, RESPECT

Corporate Social Responsibility in China’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Sector

...The report is the result of a project designed to identify and test strategies and activities that will most likely improve social and environmental conditions and also provide business benefits to th...

Posted on 12 Jul 2017

Crime Terror Nexus

How Organized Crime and Terror are linked to Oil Smuggling along Turkey’s Borders

...Abajo en español. Oil smuggling is a lucrative financial source for organized crime and terrorist groups and an example of how demand for cheaper oil creates opportunities for criminals and terroris...

Posted on 06 Jul 2017

Author(s): Mahmut Cengiz

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, RESPECT

Risk Analysis of Labor Violations Among Farmworkers in the Guatemalan Sugar Sector

...Guatemala plays a major role in the global sugar trade, as the world’s fourth largest sugar exporter and the third leading exporter of sugar to the United States in 2015. Verité chose to carry out ...

Posted on 05 Jul 2017

Protecting Politics, SEE-Obs

Crooked Kaleidoscope – Organized Crime in the Balkans

Crooked Kaleidoscope: Organized Crime in the Balkans

...The report “Crooked Kaleidoscope – Organized Crime in the Balkans” by the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, urges countries and organizations that have invested ...

Posted on 04 Jul 2017

Author(s): Walter Kemp

Global Initiative

Cybercrime and the Digital Economy in the GCC Countries

...by Joyce Hakmeh (International Security Department) A failure to tackle cybercrime would imperil strategic development plans intended to diversify GCC economies and reduce their reliance on the hy...

Posted on 30 Jun 2017

Wildlife Watch

Human Rights in a hostile environment

...Identifying the issue Environmental crime, in almost all its forms, has, in recent years, been recognized as an issue that is worthy of considerably greater political attention and law enforcement ...

Posted on 30 Jun 2017

Global Initiative

Event: ISMA Conference

...On 26 June 2017, the Global Initiative presented our research at the International Security Management Association (ISMA) conference in Berlin. Two different presentations highlighted our work in the ...

Posted on 30 Jun 2017

Global Initiative

Organised Environmental Crimes: Trends, theory, impact and responses

Organised Enviromental Crimes

... South African Crime Quarterly (SACQ) Vol. 60: Special Edition on Organised Environmental Crime Once considered peripheral, and a green matter, wildlife crimes have moved up global security and poli...

Posted on 29 Jun 2017

Global Initiative

The Role of Smugglers in Protection for the People the Move

...Presentation of Tuesday Reitano, Deputy Director, to the UNHCR Annual Consultations with NGOs 2017 on Wednesday 14 June 2017 at the UNHCR headquarters in Geneva. The Global Initiative was glad to ...

Posted on 19 Jun 2017