Extortion in Central America, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, CAM-Obs

Search and Seizure: The potential of asset forfeiture for countering extortion in Central America

Search and Seizure: The potential of asset forfeiture for countering extortion in Central America

...Extortion has become an endemic problem in Central America. To provide a comprehensive response to this crime, the countries of the region have begun to make use of asset forfeiture, a tool that reduc...

Posted on 28 Oct 2021

Author(s): Dennis Cheng

JIED

Crime beyond borders: The Podcast

... Crime Beyond Borders is a podcast series that delves into the cutting-edge research found in the Journal of Illicit Economies and Development (JIED). JIED is an open access, peer-reviewed, elec...

Posted on 27 Oct 2021

Author(s): John Collins

Assassination Witness, ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin #21

Civil Society Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa Issue 21 Sep-Oct 2021 Summary highlights From Afghanistan to Cabo Delgado – political volatility along the ...

Posted on 26 Oct 2021

Drug Policy, ESACD

Removing barriers to palliative care medicine

Removing barriers to palliative care medicine

...In April 2021, the African Group of the UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), the central drug policymaking body within the UN, expressed ‘grave concern about the access, availability and affordabi...

Posted on 23 Oct 2021

Author(s): Katherine Pettus

Resilience Fund

Resilience Fellowship 2022

...The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) is pleased to announce the third edition of the Resilience Fellowship, which for 2022 will have environmental crime as its theme. T...

Posted on 22 Oct 2021

APA-Obs

Myanmar’s illicit timber: Flows, drivers and actors

Myanmar's illicit timber

...Timber trafficking from Myanmar to China is responsible for the rapid degradation of natural forests. Illegally harvested wood is used for construction and to manufacture luxury furniture, but, with C...

Posted on 19 Oct 2021

Author(s): Prem Mahadevan

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, CAM-Obs

Plata o plomo: El impacto de la extorsión en las empresas centroamericanas

Plata o plomo

...La extorsión en Centroamérica genera un impacto económico y social que afecta a todos los sectores de la sociedad e incluso, en ocasiones, empuja a las personas a abandonar sus hogares y sus fuente...

Posted on 15 Oct 2021

Author(s): Guillermo Vazquez del Mercado Almada, Luis Félix, Gerardo Carballo Barral

Drug Policy, ESACD

Drug policy and its impact on governance in Eastern and Southern Africa

Drug policy and its impact on governance in Eastern and Southern Africa

...Drug markets in Eastern and Southern Africa have pernicious impacts on governance systems in the region. This paper tracks the primary effects of drug profits in shaping political processes, includin...

Posted on 15 Oct 2021

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