Global Initiative

Event: Dynamic Markets – Human Smuggling from Africa to Europe

...The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime would invited you to a presentation of the findings of a research project on human smuggling fr...

Posted on 16 Nov 2016

Global Initiative

Country Policy and Information Note Nigeria: Trafficking of women

...Nigeria is a source, transit and destination country for the trafficking of women and girls for forced labour and sexual exploitation. While there are no exact data, the numbers of persons trafficked ...

Posted on 15 Nov 2016

Wildlife Watch

The horns of impunity? Calls for independent investigation into State Security Minister’s alleged links to a rhino horn trafficker

...Abajo en español   South Africa’s Minister of State Security David Mahlobo is at the centre of a media firestorm over his alleged ties to a rhino horn trafficker who has openly bragged a...

Posted on 15 Nov 2016

Private Sector, RESPECT

Webinar: ‘New technologies, innovation and entrepreneurship tackling 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 techno...

Posted on 11 Nov 2016

Protecting Politics

Organised crime has affected politics, but not in the way we have come to expect.

...Organised crime has always been connected to politics.  Yet three recent popular democratic elections have proved that we insufficiently appreciate how the undertow of illicit markets and criminal ac...

Posted on 10 Nov 2016

Author(s): Mark Shaw, Tuesday Reitano

Protecting Politics, Wildlife Watch

Time for Action: End the criminality and corruption fuelling wildlife crime

...In February 2014, senior representatives of 41 countries and the European Union adopted the London Declaration on Illegal Wildlife Trade, committing to tackle this multi-billion dollar transnational c...

Posted on 09 Nov 2016

Global Initiative

Publication “Fragile Borders: rethinking borders and insecurity in Northern Mali”

Fragile Borders: rethinking borders and insecurity in Northern Mali

...The Global Initiative newest publication, Fragile Borders: rethinking borders and insecurity in Northern Mali, raises questions regarding part of the solution to this crisis of insecurity, namely bord...

Posted on 08 Nov 2016

Private Sector, RESPECT

Private sector innovations fighting human trafficking

...Abajo en español. Although governments around the world have recognized the significance of human trafficking as an element of organized crime, the private sector has also recently become more awa...

Posted on 07 Nov 2016

Global Initiative

Event: Geneva Peace Week “Building peace: Dealing with criminal agendas and illicit flows in peace processes”

...The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime and the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform invited to the Geneva Peaceweek event on "Building peace: Dealing with criminal agendas and illicit fl...

Posted on 07 Nov 2016

Development Dialogue, Sustainable Development Goals

Time to Deliver the 2030 Agenda

...Innovative approaches, visions, models and tools are needed to implement the ambitious Agenda 2030 and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 associated targets. Whilst participants and s...

Posted on 04 Nov 2016

Private Sector, RESPECT

The great palm oil scandal: Labour abuses behind big brand names

... This report investigates labour exploitation on plantations in Indonesia that provide palm oil to Wilmar, which is the world’s largest processor and merchandiser of palm and lauric (pa...

Posted on 01 Nov 2016

Crime Terror Nexus, Private Sector, Protecting Politics

Beyond Convergence: World Without Order

..."The world order built upon the Peace of Westphalia is faltering. State fragility or failure are endemic, with no fewer than one-third of the states in the United Nations earning a 'high warning'—or...

Posted on 27 Oct 2016