Development Dialogue, Protecting Politics

Improving development responses to organized crime

Improving Development Responses to Organized Crime

...As part of the ongoing "Development Dialogue" initiative, in April 2014, the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands co-hosted a...

Posted on 27 Aug 2014

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, RESPECT

Cuban baseball players: a home run for migrant smugglers

...Abajo la versión en español On 22 August 2014, Eliezer Lazo entered a guilty plea in a Miami federal court. Lazo had been charged with extortion and human trafficking related to the smuggling of ov...

Posted on 26 Aug 2014

Protecting Politics

The Japanese Yakuza: edging out of the mainstream

...Abajo la versión en español With their extensive traditions and rituals rooted in the samurai era, the Japanese mafia, or yakuza, have long been the stuff of legend. The stories surrounding the yak...

Posted on 22 Aug 2014

Author(s): Laura Adal

Development Dialogue, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Petrol smuggling: oiling the wheels of organized crime

...Abajo la versión en español As night falls the petrol smugglers on the Algerian-Moroccan border get to work. Moroccan villages that are languid by day now buzz with activity, as old Peugeots and Re...

Posted on 14 Aug 2014

RESPECT

Who puts the roof over your head? Highlighting Canada’s fight against labour trafficking

...Abajo la versión en español The Domotor-Kolompar case: A milestone in Canada’s fight against human trafficking Tomas was struggling to find decent employment in his native Hungary. He was easi...

Posted on 05 Aug 2014

Global Initiative

Synthetic cannabis: a safe way to “spice” up your life?

...Abajo la versión en español "Spice" refers to a wide variety of herbal mixtures that produce experiences similar to marijuana (cannabis) and that are marketed as "safe" alternatives to that drug, a...

Posted on 31 Jul 2014

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Private Sector, Protecting Politics, Resilience Fund

Dangerbeat: Journalists under fire for investigating organized crime

...Investigating and exposing organized crime is regarded as one of the most dangerous beats in the world. And as the labyrinths of transnational organized crime networks grow ever more convoluted, so th...

Posted on 25 Jul 2014

Global Initiative

Got a light? The art of not fighting illicit tobacco

...Governments and NGOs around the world expended significant time and effort to bring the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) into effect in 2005. The convention's purpose is to reduce tobacc...

Posted on 22 Jul 2014

Development Dialogue, Protecting Politics

GIN Interview: Saidi Mwema, former Inspector General, Tanzanian Police

...Said Mwema, former Tanzanian police chief, spoke to the GI about his experiences at the helm of the police force in Tanzania and his thoughts on combatting organized crime in his country, the East Afr...

Posted on 11 Jul 2014

Global Initiative

Índice de Paz Global: midiendo la paz y las costos de la violencia en el mundo

...Also in English, below. La paz en el mundo se ha venido deteriorando los últimos siete años debido al terrorismo y a los múltiples conflictos que han dejado números significativos de muertos y de...

Posted on 02 Jul 2014

Development Dialogue, Protecting Politics, WEA-Obs

Guinea Bissau elections: a new dawn for Africa’s first narco-state?

...Abajo la versión en español On May 18th, over 600,000 citizens in Guinea-Bissau, or just over 78 percent of all registered voters, patiently queued up and peacefully submitted their ballots to elec...

Posted on 30 Jun 2014

UN-TOC Watch

Rights and reforms: new voices join the drug policy debate

...Global drug trafficking is estimated to be the single most profitable of all transnational organized crimes. The so called big five narcotic superhighways – shifting illicit drugs from source to des...

Posted on 23 Jun 2014