Development Dialogue, UN-TOC Watch

Policy or progress? Countdown to UNGASS 2016

...Although the 58th Session of the Commission on Narcotics Drugs (CND) closed with an announcement of the dates for the long-awaited UN General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS...

Posted on 24 Mar 2015

Private Sector, RESPECT

Webinar: Criminal infiltration into global sports

...It’s Not Winning  that Counts, It’s How You Play the Game: Criminal Infiltration into Global Sports Date: 25th March 2015 The spotlight has been fixed on human trafficking and professional spor...

Posted on 19 Mar 2015

Wildlife Watch

Boom or Bust? The impact of oil on illicit economies

...Abajo la versión en español. A key story of recent months has been the relentless fall in the global price of oil. From $110 in June 2014, the price per barrel fell by early 2015 to $47. Few obse...

Posted on 18 Mar 2015

Global Initiative

Annual Report 2014

Annual Report 2014

...The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime was conceived from a series of closed-forum dialogues with thirty senior law enforcement officials, representatives of multilateral organiza...

Posted on 17 Mar 2015

Global Initiative

GIN Interview – Gulnara Shahinian

...A counter-trafficking consultant and former special rapporteur to the UN on contemporary slavery, Gulnara Shahinian has spent her career trying to stop an age-old crime that persists today. Over the l...

Posted on 04 Mar 2015

Crime & Conflict, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

Back from the Brink: Saving Ciudad Juárez

...Executive Summary Just four years ago, Ciudad Juárez was under siege from criminal gang members and being sabotaged by crooked cops. Killings and kidnappings spiralled out of control despite the dep...

Posted on 25 Feb 2015

Global Initiative

Resolved? The UN Security Council on Terrorism and Cross-Border Crime

...Abajo la versión en español. The aims of terrorists and criminal groups may differ, with the former motivated by political or religious ideals and the latter by the pursuit of profit, but there i...

Posted on 23 Feb 2015

Crime & Conflict

Organized Crime as a challenge to UN Peacekeeping: input to the High Level Panel

Organized Crime as a challenge to UN Peacekeeping

... In the last review of the United Nation System’s peacekeeping operations, the 2000 high-level panel convened under Lakhdar Brahimi asserted that “when the United Nations does send its forces t...

Posted on 19 Feb 2015

Global Initiative

Bollywood: an Organized Crime Masala

...In 1987, cinemas released Nayakan, the Indian version of the Francis Ford Coppola masterpiece The Godfather. One of the most popular films in Indian history, Nayakan features all the stereotypes that ...

Posted on 16 Feb 2015

Wildlife Watch

Wildlife trafficking: time to move from rhetoric to response

...2014 was a year marked by enormous and high level expressions of concern regarding wildlife crime in general and the poaching of elephants and rhinoceros in particular. Unfortunately, the rhetoric app...

Posted on 12 Feb 2015

Development Dialogue

Ignoring or Interfering? Development approaches to organised crime

Ignoring or Interfering? Development approaches to organised crime

...Organized crime is increasingly seen as having implications broader than the traditional frameworks of security and justice, but also severely impacting on the capacity to achieve basic social and eco...

Posted on 05 Feb 2015

RESPECT

Webinar: Online Sexual Exploitation of Children: Rights and Responsibilities

...ONLINE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION: RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES Date: 18th February 2015 Time: 10:00 am- 12:00 pm EST and 4:00-6:00 pm CET Currently, is it estimated that 1.8 million children are exploited...

Posted on 04 Feb 2015