Global Initiative

Arrested and expelled: drug trafficking and terrorism fears rising in Lebanon

...In the weeks prior to the start of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil stepped up its monitoring and arrests regarding criminal gangs and individuals not only in Rio’s favelas but especially thos...

Posted on 16 Aug 2016

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Wildlife Watch

Criminal organizations become key driver of environmental damage

..."Picture man-made environmental destruction in Latin America. Massive hydroelectric projects, unfettered agricultural expansion and major mining and oil projects probably come to mind. But so too, exp...

Posted on 15 Aug 2016

Global Initiative

‘Sweden must act now to stop online piracy’

...According to the Swedish Patent and Registration Office, around 80 percent of the value of Swedish businesses is comprised of intangible assets. To Sweden's knowledge economy, these assets are becomin...

Posted on 02 Aug 2016

Global Initiative

Intelligence-gathering: to question or not to question? That is the question

...Abajo la versión en español There’s a situation that occurs in the field of law enforcement, probably just about every day, which poses a considerable legal quandary for Customs, border control...

Posted on 02 Aug 2016

Author(s): John M. Sellar OBE

Development Dialogue, Private Sector

Illicit Trade Undermining Development

Illicit Trade Undermining Development

...Commissioned by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and together with Black Market Watch, the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime published a report on Illicit Trade Underminin...

Posted on 02 Aug 2016

Global Initiative

Post-revolutionary Discontent and F(r)actionalisation in the Maghreb – Managing the Tunisia-Libya Border Dynamics

...Executive Summary Since the 2011 so-called ‘Jasmine Revolution’ in Tunisia and the 2011 fall of Colonel Gaddafi in Libya, the two countries have experienced an unprecedented security deterioratio...

Posted on 01 Aug 2016

Crime & Conflict, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Easy Prey: Criminal Violence and Central American Migration

...Executive Summary Massive deportations from Mexico and the U.S. have failed to stem the tide of Central Americans fleeing endemic poverty combined with epidemic violence. Stepped up enforcement has d...

Posted on 28 Jul 2016

Global Initiative

Organised Crime and Corruption: Impacts

Organised Crime and Corruption: Impacts

...  "While organised crime and corruption are not new phenomena, their spread, impact and forms in the modern world are unprecedented. The effects of organised crime and corruption are being felt ...

Posted on 20 Jul 2016

RESPECT

The US TIP Report 2016: a reliable ranking tool or diplomatic instrument?

...Every year the US State Department releases the Trafficking in Persons Report ranking 190 nations by their efforts to tackle human trafficking on a scale from the worst on Tier 3 to best on Tier 1. Th...

Posted on 16 Jul 2016

Wildlife Watch

Tipping Point: Transnational Organised Crime and the War on Rhino Poaching

Transnational Organised Crime and the War on Rhino Poaching

...Six thousand rhinos have fallen to poachers’ bullets in Africa over the past decade and only about 25,000 remain – a fraction of the tens of thousands that roamed parts of the continent fifty year...

Posted on 11 Jul 2016

Author(s): Julian Rademeyer

Assassination Witness, Protecting Politics

The Rise and Fall of the Johannesburg ‘Bouncer Mafia’

The Rise and Fall of the Johannesburg ‘Bouncer Mafia’

...Mark Shaw's latest article with Simone Haysom for the Journal for Modern African Studies recounts the rise and fall of the Johannesburg bouncer mafia, a series of violent and competing groups that do...

Posted on 06 Jul 2016

Wildlife Watch

Event: Report launch on the illicit rhino horn trade

...The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, the WWF and the Geneva Environment Platform organised the Geneva launch of "Beyond borders: Crime, conservation and criminal networks in th...

Posted on 01 Jul 2016