Drug Policy

After the Drug Wars

...The ‘war on drugs’ has been largely discredited on the international stage. Former and sitting presidents, Nobel Prize winners, heads of UN agencies and other world leaders have all in some way ru...

Posted on 20 Feb 2016

Wildlife Watch

Event: GIFF – Launch and Roundtable

... Executive Summary Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) is often informal and unregulated, leaving the sector vulnerable to criminal infiltration and illicit financial flows (IFFs). The Gl...

Posted on 15 Feb 2016

Gold Watch

GIFF: Gold and Illicit Financial Flows

...Artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) accounts for approximately 20% of world supply, and is an important livelihood for tens of millions of people. However, since much of this production is in...

Posted on 10 Feb 2016

Protecting Politics

The new criminal powers: tackling illicit links between crime and politics

...Treating organized crime and corruption as a ‘cancer’ or a ‘virus’ has become shorthand in international policy circles, a diagnosis that is used to explain how countries as diverse as Mali, U...

Posted on 04 Feb 2016

RESPECT

Situation Report: Trafficking in human beings in the EU

...Situation Report Human trafficking is a major problem in the EU and a priority for MS law enforcement agencies. Trafficking in human beings (THB) is a serious crime and an abuse of an individu...

Posted on 01 Feb 2016

Global Initiative

Migrant smuggling in the EU

...Europe has seen an unprecedented increase in the number of irregular migrants arriving in the European Union since 2014. The scale of these migratory flows reached previously unseen heights in 2015. T...

Posted on 01 Feb 2016

Crime & Conflict, Protecting Politics

Drug trafficking and conflict in Syria and the Mediterranean: A fluid situation

...Drug trafficking remains a viable source of funding for both organized crime groups as well as terrorist groups and belligerents in civil conflicts across the globe. This has strong precedent in the e...

Posted on 01 Feb 2016

Global Initiative

Event: Expert Conference “Trails of Insecurity”

...The Institute for Security Studies (ISS) and the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, in conjunction with the Hanns Seidel Foundation hosted a the one-day expert conference on "Tra...

Posted on 30 Jan 2016

Global Initiative

2015 Africa-Frontex Intelligence Community Joint Report

...The 2015 Africa-Frontex Intelligence Community (AFIC) Joint Report analyses the irregular migratory movements affecting AFIC countries and EU Member States, cross-border criminality and provides an ov...

Posted on 28 Jan 2016

Global Initiative

Event: Militarised Responses to Drug Trafficking and Human Smuggling, Geneva, 11 February

...On February 11th in Geneva, we will be continuing our seminar series "Understanding the Impacts of Militarised Responses to Organised Crime" with the Royal United Services Institute. Militarised r...

Posted on 21 Jan 2016

Global Initiative

Why Africa needs to focus on Migration as a Peace and Security Issue

...In Africa, Europe, the Middle East and elsewhere, migration became a major theme last year as an unprecedented number of migrants and refugees fled to Europe. Indications are that this will continue i...

Posted on 19 Jan 2016

Global Initiative

What incentives does Niger have for cracking down on migrant smuggling? Not many

...Niger became the first country to criminalise migrant smuggling in May 2015. In this article written for the LSE in African Blog, Tuesday Reitano examines the probability of gaining Niger’s cooperat...

Posted on 13 Jan 2016
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