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

Crime & Conflict, Protecting Politics

How to Break Political-Criminal Alliances in Contexts of Transition

...Large-scale illicit economies and organized crime have received increasing attention from governments and international organizations since the end of the Cold War. The end of the Cold War brought a p...

Posted on 06 Apr 2017

Global Initiative

Formalization of informal trade in Africa – Trends, experiences and socio-economic impacts

...Executive summary There are numerous definitions of the informal economy. In this paper, an informal economy is defined as: “all economic activities by workers or economic units that are – in law...

Posted on 01 Apr 2017

RESPECT

Making Workers Pay. Recruitment of the Migrant Labor Force in the Gulf Construction Industry

... This report gives an insight into the link between corporate practices in the Arabian Gulf’s engineering and construction sector and the recruitment – in South Asian countries like I...

Posted on 01 Apr 2017

Global Initiative

Southern Libya Destabilized – The Case of Ubari

...By Rebecca Murray Ubari, an oasis town in southern Libya’s Fezzan region, is home to members of both the Tuareg and Tubu tribes. These two tribes dominate this corner of Libya and contiguous desert...

Posted on 01 Apr 2017

Private Sector, RESPECT

Webinar: Promising Practices of Innovative Entrepreneurship (start-ups) to Combat Human Trafficking

... 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 30 Mar 2017