Development Dialogue, Resilience Fund, SA-Obs

Gangs, violence and the role of women and girls: Cape Town

Gangs, violence and the role of women and girls: Cape Town

...Gangs, violence and the role of women and girls: Emerging themes and policy and programme options drawn from interviews with female gang members in Cape Town (Global Initiative, April 2017) What do...

Posted on 26 Apr 2017

Global Initiative

Event: GCSP Cyber Challenge

...The Global Initiative was honoured to participate in the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and Atlantic Council 2017 “Cyber 9/12 Student Challenge" as a judge on both days of the crisis simul...

Posted on 21 Apr 2017

Global Initiative

Meet the Global Initiative Board 2017-2020

...[mk_page_section padding_top="0" padding_bottom="0" sidebar="custom_right"][vc_column][vc_column_text]We are pleased to introduce the new Global Initiative Board, who were selected by the Global Initi...

Posted on 20 Apr 2017

RESPECT

Webinar: Law Enforcement and New Media Solutions

... Responsible and Ethical Private Sector Coalition against Trafficking’ Initiative Present in the framework of the Webinar Series THE PRIVATE SECTOR COUNTERING HUMAN TRAFFICKING: New technolog...

Posted on 20 Apr 2017

Global Initiative

Event: Migrant Smuggling – Global and Comparative perspectives

...On April 5, the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime participated in the 8th installment of the 2016-2017 Homeland Security Symposium Series, hosted by the Center for Law & Huma...

Posted on 19 Apr 2017

Global Initiative

Examining the Organised Crime – Terror Nexus and its Implications

Examining the Organised Crime-Terror Nexus and its Implications

...The evolving relationship between terrorism and crime poses significant challenges to the international community, and is contingent on definitions of terrorism, petty crime and organised crime, which...

Posted on 13 Apr 2017

Global Initiative

What does it mean to disrupt the business models of people smugglers?

...by Luigi Achilli, Migration Policy Centre, and Gabriella Sanchez, University of Texas at El Paso Abstract Despite the scaling-up of EU surveillance, enforcement measures and patrolling operations...

Posted on 09 Apr 2017

Global Initiative

CCPCJ Side Event: A girl’s game? Gender and organized crime

...An official side event of the twenty-sixth session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, 2017: A girl's game? Gender and organized crime Monday, 22nd of May / 1.10 - 2.00 p.m...

Posted on 07 Apr 2017

Development Dialogue, NAS-Obs

CCPCJ Side Event: Recent trends on the smuggling of migrants through Libya

...An official side event of the twenty-sixth session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, 2017: Recent trends on the smuggling of migrants through Libya Wednesday, 24th of May /Â...

Posted on 07 Apr 2017

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Mafia of the Poor: Gang Violence and Extortion in Central America

...Executive Summary Born in the aftermath of civil war and boosted by mass deportations from the U.S., Central American gangs are responsible for brutal acts of violence, chronic abuse of women, and mo...

Posted on 06 Apr 2017

Global Initiative

2016 Africa-Frontex Intelligence Community Joint Report

...The Africa-Frontex Intelligence Community (AFIC) Joint Report 2016 analyses the irregular migratory movements affecting AFIC countries and EU Member States, cross-border criminality and provides an ov...

Posted on 06 Apr 2017