Global Initiative

Hoping for A Brave New World

...Abajo la versión en español The boat was packed. Five hundred men and women were on board, hailing from Ghana, Somalia Eritrea, and a kaleidoscope of other countries. Sailing north from the Libyan ...

Posted on 27 Dec 2013

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

Hail to the King (and pay his nephew a bribe)

...Dino Bouterse sits in jail, facing a formidable set of charges. According to prosecutors he traffics drugs, smuggles weapons, and openly consorts with terrorists. While lurid, the case would hardly be...

Posted on 27 Dec 2013

Crime & Conflict, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Kidnapping for Ransom: everyman’s organized crime

...Abajo la versión en español Kidnapping for ransom has been on the rise across the globe, from the West to the Gulf, from Somalia to San Diego, from Syria to the Sahara, and its forms are astonishin...

Posted on 27 Dec 2013

Global Initiative

European Drug Report: Trends and Developments

...This report is based on information provided to the EMCDDA by the EU Member States, the candidate countries Croatia and Turkey, and Norway. Statistical data reported here are for 2011, or the most rec...

Posted on 20 Dec 2013

Global Initiative

Precursor Control on Central Asia’s Borders with China

...The chain of opiate smugglers and the tangle of their routes across Central Asia lead back to the source of their product in Afghanistan. However, the difficulties of addressing the Afghan drug trade ...

Posted on 20 Dec 2013

Global Initiative

World Drug Report 2013

...The findings of the World Drug Report 2013 deliver important lessons for the forthcoming high-level review of the commitments that countries reaffirmed in 2009 on the measures for drug control. These ...

Posted on 20 Dec 2013

Global Initiative

EU Drug Markets Report: A Strategic Analysis

...This is the first time that Europol and the EMCDDA have joined forces to produce a comprehensive analysis of the European drug market in its entirety. Previous joint publications from our agencies hav...

Posted on 20 Dec 2013

Global Initiative

Threat Assessment Environmental Crime in the EU

...In addition to the recommended priorities established in the framework of the EU policy cycle for organised and serious international crime 2014 to 2017, the EU Serious and Organised Crime Threat Asse...

Posted on 18 Dec 2013

Global Initiative

The Odessa Network Mapping Facilitators of Russian and Ukrainian Arms Transfers

...A network of Ukraine-based individuals and logistics companies—referred to herein as the “Odessa Network” due to its key leadership being located in Odessa, Ukraine—is responsible for transpor...

Posted on 18 Dec 2013

Wildlife Watch

Killing Animals; Buying Arms: Setting the Stage for Collaborative Solutions to Poaching + Wildlife Crime

...In September 2013, a Stimson team visited Tsavo West National Park, home to the Ngulia Rhino sanctuary that holds over 60 of Kenya’s 650 black rhinos. These creatures, as well as Tsavo’s elephants...

Posted on 18 Dec 2013

Global Initiative

The War on Drugs: Causing Deforestation and Pollution

...The global “war on drugs” has been fought for 50 years, without preventing the long-term trend of increasing drug supply and use. Beyond this failure, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) h...

Posted on 18 Dec 2013

Gold Watch

Absorption of IFFs from Developing Countries 2002-6

...In December 2008 Global Financial Integrity produced its analysis entitled “Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2002-2006.” We found that some $850 billion to $1 trillion a year was...

Posted on 12 Dec 2013
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