Drug Policy, WEA-Obs

Cocaine politics in West Africa: Guinea-Bissau’s protection networks

Cocaine politics in West Africa

...Guinea-Bissau is a key entry point for cocaine into West Africa, a region that operates as a transit point on international cocaine trafficking routes between cultivation countries in Latin America an...

Posted on 22 Jul 2022

Author(s): Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo

20 Jul

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, CAM-Obs

Métodos y herramientas para el análisis de extorsión: los casos de Ciudad Juárez y Tijuana, México

...La extorsión es un fenómeno criminal presente en toda América Latina. México no es la excepción. México Evalúa, una organización de la sociedad civil con más de 10 años de experiencia en el...

Posted on 14 Jul 2022
21 Sep

MMFU, Wildlife Watch, APA-Obs

Online markets for pangolin-derived products

Online markets for pangolin-derived products

...The research described in this report attempts to shed a new light on a known major illicit wildlife-trade issue, namely the use of pangolin parts and scales in the manufacturing of a number of items,...

Posted on 14 Jul 2022

Author(s): Private: Théo Clément, Simone Haysom, Jack Pay

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Jack Pay

...Jack Pay is a partner at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media and a research fellow at the University of Sussex. With a background in data science and computational linguistics, his recent work...

Posted on 14 Jul 2022

Global Organized Crime Index, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, CAM-Obs

El Camino

...Understanding the Index through our own stories 'El Camino' According to the Global Organized Crime Index, Guatemala ranks 23rd out of 193 countries in terms of high criminality and low resili...

Posted on 13 Jul 2022

Assassination Witness, Disappearances, Extortion in Central America, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Resilience Fund, CAM-Obs

Crimen y Resiliencia: El podcast

... Crimen y Resiliencia, el podcast de Latinoamérica y el Caribe de Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, explora los impactos del crimen organizado en la región y las respuestas d...

Posted on 12 Jul 2022

Author(s): Siria Gastelum Felix, Ana Castro, Guillermo Vazquez del Mercado Almada, Adrián Ancira Ortega

Crime & Conflict, Sanctions and organized crime, EAS-Obs

Rebellion as racket: Crime and the Donbas conflict 2014-2022

Rebellion as racket

...Globally, connections between crime, war and insurrection are inescapable, and the undeclared struggle over the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine, before Russia’s open invasion in February 2022, was ...

Posted on 11 Jul 2022

Author(s): Mark Galeotti, Anna Arutunyan

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Anna Arutunyan

Senior Russia Analyst, Mayak Intelligence

...Anna Arutunyan is the associate director of Mayak Intelligence, based in Moscow until February 2022 and now in the UK. Her work has appeared in the European Council on Foreign Relations, Foreign Affai...

Posted on 11 Jul 2022

Drug Policy, Global Organized Crime Index, EUR-Obs

Under pressure: Is the EU ready to counter the global cocaine trade?

...In May 2022, Europol and the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (EMCDDA) warned that the cocaine and methamphetamine markets in Europe were a growing threat. More needs to be done...

Posted on 08 Jul 2022

Author(s): Alejandra Gómez Céspedes

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Alejandra Gómez Céspedes

Criminologist

...Alejandra Gómez Céspedes is a criminologist. She has worked at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime; the Andalusian Interuniversity Institute of Criminology; and the Center of Excellence for...

Posted on 08 Jul 2022
12 Jul

Resilience Fund, SEE-Obs

Youth activism: Challenges and Opportunities

...In this webinar, we will explore challenges youth are facing as active citizens in Albania and how these challenges affect youth’s involvement in organized crime. We wish to create a community of p...

Posted on 05 Jul 2022
07 Jul

MMFU, Sustainable Development Goals, UN-TOC Watch, Wildlife Watch

The illicit wildlife trade: Developments, responses, and lessons learned to support SDG 15

...This year’s High Level Political Forum at the UN will bring a focus to SDG 15: Life on Land, and with it Targets 15.7 Eliminate Poaching and Trafficking of Protected Species and Target 15.C Combat G...

Posted on 01 Jul 2022
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