A social anthropology of cybercrime: The digitization of India’s economic periphery
The Republic of India is a useful case study for tracking the growth of cybercrime in the developing world. Most analyses of such crime focus on...
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Not above the law? The role of lawyers in combating money laundering and illicit asset flows.
Lawyers frequently find themselves caught between their obligations to governmental authorities and their fidelity to their clients. This becomes...
Capturing proceeds of crime in illicit financial flows models
Illicit financial flows (IFFs) are generally viewed as the financial side of criminal activity, and there is widespread agreement IFFs are a global...
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Still in chains
A UK House of Lords report is highly critical of the apathy shown by the private sector towards combating modern slavery in their supply chains. Over...
Trade infrastructure and organized crime
Trade infrastructure may enable the economic benefits of globalization, but at the same time it can also make countries more vulnerable to organized...
IOM human trafficking remediation guidelines
The IOM’s recent Remediation Guidelines for Victims of Human Trafficking in Mineral Supply Chains should encourage business to both prevent and...
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Webinar: Promising Practices of Innovative Entrepreneurship (start-ups) to Combat Human Trafficking
Responsible and Ethical Private Sector Coalition against Trafficking’ Initiative Present in the framework of the Webinar Series THE PRIVATE SECTOR...
Webinar: Multinational Technology Brands Tackling Human Trafficking
Responsible and Ethical Private Sector Coalition against Trafficking’ Initiative Present in the framework of the Webinar Series THE PRIVATE SECTOR...
Webinar: Awareness Raising and Campaigning: What and How Does Social Media Contribute to Identification and Responses?
Responsible and Ethical Private Sector Coalition against Trafficking’ Initiative Present in the framework of the Webinar Series THE PRIVATE SECTOR...
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In memoriam: Jean-Luc Vez
Global Initiative Board Member, Jean-Luc Vez, Managing Director for Security Policy and Security Affairs at the World Economic Forum (WEF), and the...
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...
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Security for Sale: Challenges and Good Practices in Regulating Private Military and Security Companies in Latin America
by Sarah Kinosian and James Bosworth The elevated, and in some cases epidemic, criminal violence that afflicts much of Latin America has given rise...
Confronting Root Causes: Forced Labour in Global Supply Chains
Forced labour is all around us, but not how you think. ‘Confronting root causes’ pulls together research from across the world to explain...
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,...