Crime and Contagion: The impact of a pandemic on organized crime
The fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic is having profound impacts on society and the economy, and it will also influence and shape organized crime and...
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Strengthening Rule of Law approaches to address organized crime: Criminal Market Convergence
In many parts of the world, multiple criminal markets operate in the same space, undermining good governance and regional peace and security. To...
East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin #5
Each story in this edition of the Risk Bulletin of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa looks at a different illegal market: from trade...
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#CovidCrimeWatch – n°3
As the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide surpasses 1.3 million, the risks posed by the pandemic – not just from the global health...
COVID-19: Strengthen civil society in a time of unprecedented change and undermine criminal governance
The COVID-19 virus presents extraordinary challenges to the global community and to global governance. Not least of these is the degree to which...
Munich Security Conference discusses the Organized Crime Index Africa
In September 2019, the Organized Crime Index Africa 2019 was launched by the ENACT research consortium. This, the first-ever index to measure...
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Organised Crime Index (Africa 2019)
The ENACT Organised Crime Index is an innovative tool designed to measure levels of organised crime in African countries and assess their resilience...
Launch of the IUU Fishing Index
The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime and Poseidon – Aquatic Resource Management Ltd. are pleased to announce the launch of...
World Atlas of Illicit Flows
Organized crime takes the lion’s share of USD31.5 billion in illicit flows in and around conflict areas A new report warns that the...
Empty Shells: An assessment of abalone poaching and trade in southern Africa
Organised criminal syndicates drive collapse of South African abalone 96 million abalone poached in 18 years, new TRAFFIC report finds Over the past...
The Extractive Industry: Environmental Degradation & Human Rights Challenges
The extractive industry is highly vulnerable to human rights abuses and environmental crime, such as human trafficking along with the uncontrolled...
Untouchable? Criminal networks, traffickers and the trade in rhino horn
Six thousand rhinos have fallen to poachers’ bullets in Africa over the past decade and only about 25,000 remain – a fraction of the tens of...
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Organized Crime and Criminal Networks in Africa
Summary and Keywords Organised crime and criminal networks are an outcome of Africa’s weak systems of state reach and governance, and in turn they...
Interview: Alejandro Nadal, Prof. of Economics, University of Mexico
Prof. Alejandro Nadal, Prof. of Economics, Centre for Economics, Colegio de Mexico, discusses the possible implications of the legalisation of...
Interview: Paula Kahumbu, Hands off our Elephants Campaign
Paula Kahumbu is the Executive Director of WildlifeDirect, talks to Peter Gastrow about their Hands Off Our Elephants campaign, launched in 2013. One...
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Organized Crime and Criminal Networks in Africa
Summary and Keywords Organised crime and criminal networks are an outcome of Africa’s weak systems of state reach and governance, and in turn they...
In Plane Sight: Wildlife Trafficking in the Air Transport Sector
In Plane Sight examines wildlife trafficking through the air transport sector by analyzing nine years’ worth of open source seizure...
Buyers in Good Faith: How Timber Exporters are Complicit in Plundering Peru’s Amazon
The most significant, high-profile attempt in Peru’s history to stop illegal timber exports took place very early one morning in November 2015,...