Development Dialogue, Sustainable Development Goals

Beyond the SDGs: Implementing Results-based approaches to Organized Crime and Development

Beyond the SDGs: Implementing Results-Based Approaches to Organised Crime and Development

...In a recent publication, "Organized Crime as a Cross-Cutting Threat to Development" the Global Initiative proved that the organized crime severely impacts the international community’s capacity to ...

Posted on 22 Apr 2015

Global Initiative

Deaths in the Med: search and rescue won’t stop the smuggling

...Abajo la versión en español The death toll of migrants dying in the Mediterranean is unquestionably of grave humanitarian concern and an epic travesty of human rights. This sea crossing between N...

Posted on 20 Apr 2015

Wildlife Watch

Illegal Fishing: the overlooked organized environmental crime

Illegal Fishing

...More than 90% of the world’s fisheries are currently fully or over-exploited.  A 2008 study estimated that the annual global illicit fishing catch was between 11 - 26 million tonnes, equal to more ...

Posted on 16 Apr 2015

TOCLaw, Wildlife Watch

Strengthening the global legal architecture to combat environmental crime

Strengthening the Global Legal Architecture to Combat Environmental Crime

...At a side event to the UN Crime Congress currently ongoing in Doha, The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime and the WWF presented a new report entitled “Tightening the Net: Tow...

Posted on 14 Apr 2015

Crime & Conflict, Development Dialogue, Protecting Politics, Resilience Fund

States of Fragility: Organized crime as a driver of fragility

...Abajo la versión en español The OECD launched their "States of Fragility Report 2015" this month in Paris.  This was the latest iteration of the Fragile States Reports that the OECD has been pub...

Posted on 08 Apr 2015

Private Sector, RESPECT

Webinar: Labour Exploitation and the Construction Industry

...Date: Wednesday, 15th April 2015 According to the International Labour Organization and other sources, labour exploitation currently makes up the largest percentage of those who are trafficked. Some ...

Posted on 04 Apr 2015

Development Dialogue, UN-TOC Watch

Policy or progress? Countdown to UNGASS 2016

...Although the 58th Session of the Commission on Narcotics Drugs (CND) closed with an announcement of the dates for the long-awaited UN General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS...

Posted on 24 Mar 2015

Private Sector, RESPECT

Webinar: Criminal infiltration into global sports

...It’s Not Winning  that Counts, It’s How You Play the Game: Criminal Infiltration into Global Sports Date: 25th March 2015 The spotlight has been fixed on human trafficking and professional spor...

Posted on 19 Mar 2015

Wildlife Watch

Boom or Bust? The impact of oil on illicit economies

...Abajo la versión en español. A key story of recent months has been the relentless fall in the global price of oil. From $110 in June 2014, the price per barrel fell by early 2015 to $47. Few obse...

Posted on 18 Mar 2015

Global Initiative

Annual Report 2014

Annual Report 2014

...The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime was conceived from a series of closed-forum dialogues with thirty senior law enforcement officials, representatives of multilateral organiza...

Posted on 17 Mar 2015

Global Initiative

GIN Interview – Gulnara Shahinian

...A counter-trafficking consultant and former special rapporteur to the UN on contemporary slavery, Gulnara Shahinian has spent her career trying to stop an age-old crime that persists today. Over the l...

Posted on 04 Mar 2015

Crime & Conflict, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

Back from the Brink: Saving Ciudad Juárez

...Executive Summary Just four years ago, Ciudad Juárez was under siege from criminal gang members and being sabotaged by crooked cops. Killings and kidnappings spiralled out of control despite the dep...

Posted on 25 Feb 2015