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RESPECT

Cybercrime and Human Trafficking

...A recent report written by McAfee in conjunction with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) estimates that the global cost of cybercrime is $600 billion annually. Cybercrime create...

Posted on 05 Jun 2018

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Arezo Malakooti

Senior Fellow, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

...Arezo Malakooti has over twelve years of experience conducting social research in countries as divers as Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Rwanda, Lebanon, Italy, Spain, Greece...

Posted on 29 May 2018

Private Sector, RESPECT

Battling Human Trafficking: A Scrutiny of Private Sector Obligations under the Modern Slavery Act

Battling Human Trafficking

...Battling Human Trafficking: How Far Have We Come and Where Do We Go From Here? A Scrutiny of Private Sector Obligations under the Modern Slavery Act by Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo Overview Mod...

Posted on 29 May 2018

Global Initiative

Understanding contemporary human smuggling as a vector in migration

...This guide analyses in depth the dynamics and trends of the human-smuggling industry, focusing on migration from and through the Middle East, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa to Europe. Its goal ...

Posted on 22 May 2018

Author(s): Tuesday Reitano, Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo

28 May

Global Initiative

Libya: is the migrant crisis finally over?

...Since 2013, hundreds of thousands of migrants have left Libya’s shores in overstuffed and unseaworthy boats, to seek asylum and opportunity in Europe. But this year, departures are down almost 75%, ...

Posted on 18 May 2018

22 May

RESPECT

Launch of the Interactive Map for Business of Anti-Human Trafficking Organisations

... Given the rapid development of initiatives aimed at helping businesses fight human trafficking, the RESPECT Initiative (comprising Babson College’s Initiative on ...

Posted on 17 May 2018

ENACT

Europe should rethink its policy on Libya’s organised crime problem

...Beyond the ‘migrant crisis’, Europe should recognise the threat posed by illicit markets in Libya. Speaking in Geneva recently, the head of Libya’s National Oil Company, Mustafa Sanalla, laun...

Posted on 17 May 2018

Author(s): Mark Micallef

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Kathryn Kosanovich

...Kathryn Kosanovich graduated in 2016 with an MA in Anthropology and Sociology of Development from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. Her thesis was...

Posted on 16 May 2018

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Rupert Horsley

Senior Analyst, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime

...Rupert is a Senior Analyst at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organised Crime. Before joining the Global Initiative he was a freelance researcher broadly covering political risk in the MEN...

Posted on 16 May 2018

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

UNTOC Convention facing political cul-de-sac

...After so much talking and political engagement, the failure to achieve a review mechanism for the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime is potentially a major blow to its future. Add to ...

Posted on 14 May 2018

Author(s): Mark Shaw, Julia Stanyard

Assassination Witness, ENACT

Mozambique’s quiet assassination epidemic

...The surface of life in Mozambique conceals violent undercurrents that threaten development and stability alike. On 27 March, Mozambican journalist and activist Ericino de Salema was leaving the Nati...

Posted on 11 May 2018

Author(s): Simone Haysom, Rupert Horsley

Global Initiative

Priority must shape policy in border control

...Policymakers and interdiction authorities should allocate resources to the hierarchy of genuine border threats and risks as if it were an exercise in triage. On 22 March, a spate of bombings in Tex...

Posted on 08 May 2018

Author(s): David Danelo

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