Wildlife Watch

The Environmental Crime Crisis

...Given the alarming pace, level of sophistication, and globalized nature that illegal trade in wildlife has now notoriously achieved, UNEP initiated a Rapid Response Assessment to provide some of the l...

Posted on 18 Jun 2014

Development Dialogue, Protecting Politics, TOCLaw

Deadly Environment: The dramatic rise in killings of environmental and land defenders

...Never has it been more important to protect the environment, and never has it been more deadly. Competition for access to natural resources is intensifying against a backdrop of extreme global inequal...

Posted on 18 Jun 2014

Wildlife Watch

Organized Environmental Crime: Act now or we will lose…

Organized Environmental Crime

...Organized Environmental Crime: A Call to Action Unchecked corruption and sophisticated criminal networks have created an illicit economy in environmental products, which is pushing species to the b...

Posted on 17 Jun 2014

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Tendencias de Seguridad Cibernética en América Latina y El Caribe

...Also in English, below. Además del secuestro y del secuestro virtual, el secuestro cibernético es otra forma de crimen que va en aumento en América Latina. ¿Cómo funciona? Los criminales se h...

Posted on 17 Jun 2014

Protecting Politics, SA-Obs

Unholy alliances: Organized crime in Southern Africa

Unholy alliances: Organized crime in Southern Africa

...The growth of illicit networks and organized crime in Africa are interwoven into the narrative of independence and statehood on the African Continent. In Africa, as with the world as a whole, criminal...

Posted on 12 Jun 2014

Wildlife Watch

The Charcoal Conundrum: ending the Somali illegal charcoal trade

...Abajo la versión en español The UN Security Council has noted on several occasions that ‘charcoal exports from Somalia are a significant revenue source for Al Shabaab and also exacerbate the huma...

Posted on 10 Jun 2014

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Corridor of Violence: the Guatemala – Honduras Border

...Executive Summary One of the most dangerous areas in Central America is located along the border of Guatemala with Honduras. The murder rate is among the highest in the world. The absence of effectiv...

Posted on 04 Jun 2014

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

Match fixing: scarring the face of the beautiful game

...Abajo la versión en español At the advent of the start of the World Cup in Brazil this month, all eyes are on the ball. With over 250 million players and billions of fans worldwide, football is ...

Posted on 04 Jun 2014

Wildlife Watch

Water, water everywhere? Charting the growth of organized water theft

...Abajo la versión en español Despite nearly two thirds of the Earth's surface being covered by water, a mere three percent is suitable to meet human needs. The amount of fresh water on earth, fro...

Posted on 30 May 2014

Protecting Politics

Mafia-redux: is the Sicilian mafia in decline?

...Abajo la versión en español by Antonio De Bonis 22 years ago this week, on the 23rd May 1992, the courageous Italian prosecutor, Giovanni Falcone, was assassinated by a car bomb that was so pow...

Posted on 28 May 2014

Global Initiative

Aiding and abetting: a critical loophole in the fight against maritime piracy

...Abajo la versión en español Recent statistics from the International Maritime Bureau confirm that maritime piracy in Somalia is on the decline.  From the 237 incidents reported in 2011, there were...

Posted on 24 May 2014

Drug Policy

Ending the Drug Wars

...A major rethink of international drug policies is under way. The failure of the UN to achieve its goal of ‘a drug free world’ and the continuation of enormous collateral damage from excessively mi...

Posted on 20 May 2014