Global Initiative

Resolved? The UN Security Council on Terrorism and Cross-Border Crime

...Abajo la versión en español. The aims of terrorists and criminal groups may differ, with the former motivated by political or religious ideals and the latter by the pursuit of profit, but there i...

Posted on 23 Feb 2015

Crime & Conflict

Organized Crime as a challenge to UN Peacekeeping: input to the High Level Panel

Organized Crime as a challenge to UN Peacekeeping

... In the last review of the United Nation System’s peacekeeping operations, the 2000 high-level panel convened under Lakhdar Brahimi asserted that “when the United Nations does send its forces t...

Posted on 19 Feb 2015

Global Initiative

Bollywood: an Organized Crime Masala

...In 1987, cinemas released Nayakan, the Indian version of the Francis Ford Coppola masterpiece The Godfather. One of the most popular films in Indian history, Nayakan features all the stereotypes that ...

Posted on 16 Feb 2015

Wildlife Watch

Wildlife trafficking: time to move from rhetoric to response

...2014 was a year marked by enormous and high level expressions of concern regarding wildlife crime in general and the poaching of elephants and rhinoceros in particular. Unfortunately, the rhetoric app...

Posted on 12 Feb 2015

Development Dialogue

Ignoring or Interfering? Development approaches to organised crime

Ignoring or Interfering? Development approaches to organised crime

...Organized crime is increasingly seen as having implications broader than the traditional frameworks of security and justice, but also severely impacting on the capacity to achieve basic social and eco...

Posted on 05 Feb 2015

RESPECT

Webinar: Online Sexual Exploitation of Children: Rights and Responsibilities

...ONLINE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION: RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES Date: 18th February 2015 Time: 10:00 am- 12:00 pm EST and 4:00-6:00 pm CET Currently, is it estimated that 1.8 million children are exploited...

Posted on 04 Feb 2015

Global Initiative

Innovations in International Cooperation to Counter Cybercrime

Innovations in International Cooperation to Counter Cybercrime:

...Without significant cooperation between nations and the adoption of new strategies, law enforcement will be left behind, fighting 21st century crime with 19th century tools. Cybercrime has challenged ...

Posted on 01 Feb 2015

Author(s): Tuesday Reitano, Troels Oerting, Marcena Hunter

Protecting Politics

The world in-between: Mafia Capitale blurs the lines of organized crime

...Abajo la versión en español. Operation “Mondo di Mezzo” has rocked the foundations of Italian society.  This investigation by the Italian police has revealed the astonishing penetration of t...

Posted on 27 Jan 2015

Development Dialogue, Sustainable Development Goals

Organized Crime: a cross-cutting threat to development

Organized Crime: A Cross-Cutting Threat to Sustainable Development

...There is a growing understanding of how organized crime threatens sustainable development. This recognition has found its way into key policy documents on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, such as the...

Posted on 13 Jan 2015

Global Initiative

Business, Corruption And Crime In Albania: The impact of bribery and other crime on private enterprise

...This survey of private businesses in Albania reveals that corruption and other forms of crime are a great hindrance to private enterprise and have a negative effect on private investment. A significan...

Posted on 29 Dec 2014

Global Initiative

The Socio-Economic Impact of Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling in Pakistan

...Human trafficking and migrant smuggling remains an unabated challenge for the international community as it affects almost every country in the world where millions of people are trapped in the form o...

Posted on 29 Dec 2014

Development Dialogue, Drug Policy

The Negative Impact of Drug Control on Public Health: the global crisis of unavoidable pain

...The international drug control system is stoking a global crisis of inequitable access to controlled medicines. Of the global population, an estimated 5.5 billion have poor to nonexistent access to op...

Posted on 20 Dec 2014