Wildlife Watch

Day of the [enter species here]

...In August, we celebrated World Lion Day (August 10th, World Elephant Day (August 12th), World Orangutan Dayb(August 19th) and we look forward to World Rhino Day to come (September 22nd).  But with th...

Posted on 06 Aug 2013

Global Initiative

Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Barclay’s Bank Kiboshes Somali Remittances

...In May, Barclays Bank announced it would be withdrawing banking services from 250 money transfer services, including a number that provided remittance services to Somalia and Somaliland. This was the ...

Posted on 06 Aug 2013

Crime & Conflict

Arms Trafficking in Syria: A Case of the Biter Getting Bitten

...The grinding maelstrom that is Syria’s civil war continues to churn. While the grievances behind the conflict are complex and variable, there is one enabling factor that has been vital - access to w...

Posted on 06 Aug 2013

Global Initiative

Global Initiative Launch – 19 September 2013

...The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime will formally launch in New York on the 19th September 2013. The event will feature a keynote speech by Moisés Naím of the Carnegie E...

Posted on 04 Aug 2013

Protecting Politics

Analyzing Organized Crime Brief – July 2013

Analyzing Organized Crime Brief - July 2013

...The Global Initiative has reviewed the biggest developments, publications and new tools on organized crime for the last month and is pleased to share the "Analyzing Organized Crime" brief for July 201...

Posted on 31 Jul 2013

Wildlife Watch

Criminal Nature: The Global Security Implications of the Illegal Wildlife Trade

...IFAW’S 2008 REPORT, was one of the first publications of its kind to assert that the illicit trade in wildlife is not only a serious global environmental crime with profoundly negative impacts for e...

Posted on 17 Jul 2013

RESPECT

Threat or opportunity? Trafficking in persons in the internet era

...On June 19th, the U.S. Department of State issued its 2013 Trafficking in Persons Report. The report ranks nations on specific benchmarks in combatting human trafficking and slavery. U.S. Department o...

Posted on 06 Jul 2013

Drug Policy, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics, Resilience Fund

El Salvador’s Gang Truce: A durable model?

...As the SALW 2013 survey aptly describes, for the last decade, Central American states have been plagued the highest homicide rates in the world. Honduras, currently the most violent state in Central ...

Posted on 06 Jul 2013

Drug Policy, Resilience Fund

Mexico’s war on drugs heats up

...July has been a good month for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and the war on drugs.  At 03:45 on July 15th, Miguel Treviño Morales, leader of the notoriously violent Zetas trafficking organi...

Posted on 06 Jul 2013

Global Initiative

Cybercrime: The “Digital Wildfire of the Hyper-connected World”

...On July 25th, U.S. authorities indicted six men for hacking into a dozen American companies.  Their criminal endeavours had been wildly successful, reportedly netting 160 million credit cards and $30...

Posted on 06 Jul 2013

Global Initiative

Of meth and men

...A drug epidemic is percolating through North Korea. Idle factories have been repurposed, and are pumping methamphetamine out to growing pool of users. Demand for the drug comes not only from well-heel...

Posted on 06 Jul 2013

Protecting Politics

Protecting democracy from drug money

...July saw the announcement of elections in two states struggling under the dark cloud of organized crime and drug trafficking – Mali, whose elections were completed as this brief was going to print; ...

Posted on 06 Jul 2013