Global Initiative

Publication: The nexus of conflict and illicit drug trafficking – Syria and the wider region

The nexus of conflict and illicit drug trafficking - Syria and the wider region

...Evidence of drug seizures shows that captagon has become the major drug in the Middle East, enriching criminal and terrorist networks and fueling conflict across the region, sidelining other drug rout...

Posted on 24 Oct 2016

Crime & Conflict, Protecting Politics

A Criminal State: Understanding and countering institutionalized corruption and violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo

...The Democratic Republic of Congo is not a failed state—for everyone. It is a failure for the vast majority of Congolese who suffer from abysmal security, health care, and education services. However...

Posted on 24 Oct 2016

Crime & Conflict, Protecting Politics

Webinar: Organized Crime and Public Service Delivery

...Webinar hosted by International IDEA, to launch their "Protecting Politics" series.  Featured speakers included: Tuesday Reitano, Deputy Director, Global Initiative against Transnational Organiz...

Posted on 17 Oct 2016

Global Initiative

Global Initiative cocktail reception

...  On the occasion of the Global Initiative's 3rd Annual Advisory Board meeting, and the inauguration of our headquarters in Geneva, we were pleased to host an engaged debate on the need for re...

Posted on 17 Oct 2016

SA-Obs

‘Please GO HOME and BUILD Africa’: Compounding criminalisation of migrants in South Africa

... On 12 April 2015, a Whatsapp text from the Patriotic Movement, Pan Local Forum, Unemployed Workers Forum, Anti-Crime Movement and others went viral telling African foreigners in South Africa to retu...

Posted on 11 Oct 2016

Crime & Conflict, Gold Watch, Protecting Politics

Bankrupting Kleptocracy: Financial tools to counter atrocities in Africa’s deadliest war zones

...In several conflict-affected countries in East and Central Africa, the state has been hijacked and transformed from an institution that is supposed to provide social services and safeguard the rule of...

Posted on 11 Oct 2016

Global Initiative

Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour: an in-depth investigation into Europe’s ‘migration crisis’

Migrant, Refugee, Smuggler, Saviour

...As millions of people seek passage to Europe in order to escape conflict, repression, poverty and natural catastrophe, their movements are enabled and encouraged by ruthless professional criminal netw...

Posted on 10 Oct 2016

Author(s): Peter Tinti, Tuesday Reitano

Crime & Conflict

The nexus of conflict and illicit drug trafficking – Syria and the wider region

The Nexus of Conflict and Illicit Drug Trafficking

...The Global Initiative with the support of the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform launched the report "The nexus of conflict and illicit drug trafficking Syria and the wider region"(November 2016) on 1st of...

Posted on 06 Oct 2016

WEA-Obs

Terrorist Financing in West and Central Africa

...West and Central Africa continues to experience the terrible impact of terrorism. Boko Haram in particular, has developed into the most deadly terrorist organisations in the world, responsible for 600...

Posted on 01 Oct 2016

Global Initiative

Further Criminalizing People Smuggling Will Not Work

...Recent U.N. summits largely ignored the $157bn industry behind mass migration, warns author Tuesday Reitano. When they did pay attention, they failed to learn the lessons of Niger and Egypt. The...

Posted on 30 Sep 2016

RESPECT

Human Trafficking, Sexual Exploitation growing risk for Syrian Refugees

...Through the fog of smoke in a darkened club on the outskirts of the city, Zeina explains matter of frankly how she turned to sex-work. “It’s the only job available for Syrian women like me.” U...

Posted on 28 Sep 2016

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

Protecting Politics: Deterring the Influence of Organized Crime on Political Parties

...Preface Political parties play a crucial role in the functioning of democracy. As the intermediaries between political representatives and the citizens, parties hold the keys to ensure that instituti...

Posted on 22 Sep 2016