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Global Initiative

European funds and their use by organised crime

...The funds which are covered by the financial interests of the European Union account for approximately 145 bn. euro per year of the EU budget. They are exposed to multiple risks of fraud, corruption a...

Posted on 29 Dec 2012

Global Initiative

Prevalence of daily cannabis use in the European Union and Norway

...Cannabis use is relatively common in the European Union (EU) and Norway, with around 23 million people (6.8 % of all 15- to 64-year-olds) having used the drug in the past year and about 12 million (3...

Posted on 20 Dec 2012

Global Initiative

Drug Policy Profiles

...The European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) is publishing this series of profiles with the aim of describing some of the main characteristics of national drug policies in Euro...

Posted on 20 Dec 2012

Global Initiative

A definition of ‘drug mules’ for use in a European context

...Drug trafficking is no longer considered solely a social ill or a domestic issue, but is now presented as a matter of European security (1). In the European Union (EU) vast amounts of resources are sp...

Posted on 20 Dec 2012

Global Initiative

World Drug Report 2012

...About 230 million people, or 5 per cent of the world’s adult population, are estimated to have used an illicit drug at least once in 2010. Problem drug users number about 27 million, which is 0.6 pe...

Posted on 20 Dec 2012

Global Initiative

Fighting Cybercrime and Protecting Privacy in the Cloud

...This study addresses the challenges raised by the growing reliance on cloud computing. It starts by investigating the issues at stake and explores how the EU is addressing the identified concerns. The...

Posted on 18 Dec 2012

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Private Sector, Protecting Politics

Constructive Powers: the defining elements of transnational organized crime

...Mark Shaw, Director, talks about Constructive Powers, the defining elements of transnational organized crime and how the role of private institutions differs from that of the government. Photo by B...

Posted on 18 Dec 2012

Gold Watch, Private Sector

Illicit Financial Flows from Developing Countries: 2001-10

...According to the HMN+GER method, the ten countries with the largest outflows of illicit capital (in declining order of magnitude) were China, Mexico, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, the Russian Federation, th...

Posted on 12 Dec 2012

RESPECT

Executive Order – Strengthening Protections Against Trafficking In Persons In Federal Contracts

...The United States has long had a zero-tolerance policy regarding Government employees and contractor personnel engaging in any form of this criminal behavior. As the largest single purchaser of goods ...

Posted on 02 Oct 2012

Wildlife Watch

Victims of Environmental Crime: Mapping the Issues

...In recent years, with greater understanding of the need to protect the environment and a better appreciation of what the environment can and cannot sustain, regulation, and in some cases, criminalizat...

Posted on 18 Aug 2012

Drug Policy

The War on Drugs and HIV/AIDS: How the Criminalization of Drug Use Fuels the Global Pandemic

...The global war on drugs is driving the HIV/AIDS pandemic among people who use drugs and their sexual partners. Throughout the world, research has consistently shown that repressive drug law enforcemen...

Posted on 20 Jun 2012

Global Initiative

FATF: Illicit Tobacco Trade

...The illicit tobacco trade is prone to money laundering. Trade is considered to be cash intensive and profitable whilst being accompanied by low levels of risk posed to the criminal groupings (in ter...

Posted on 12 Jun 2012

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