Global Initiative

The industrialization of cross-channel migrant smuggling

Small boats, big business

...As of January 2024, over 100 000 people had crossed the English Channel using small boats since 2018. The current peak came in 2022, when over 45 000 people were detected arriving in the UK illegally ...

Posted on 22 Feb 2024

Crime & Conflict

Illicit networks, commoditized violence and the arc of state collapse in Sudan

The war of thieves

...Sudan’s current conflict, which erupted in April 2023, is the latest chapter in a story of rival predatory networks competing for control over formal and illicit economies, the information environme...

Posted on 21 Feb 2024

Author(s): J.R. Mailey

Assassination Witness, Cities & Illicit Economies, Crime & Conflict, Eco-Solve, Global Organized Crime Index, Gold Watch, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Private Sector, Resilience Fund, UN-TOC Watch, Wildlife Watch, APA-Obs, CSA-Obs, ESA-Obs, LAM-Obs, NAS-Obs, SA-Obs, SEE-Obs, UKR-Obs, WEA-Obs

Global Initiative Strategy (2024-2026)

Global Initiative Strategy (2024-2026)

...The world is facing a number of serious and often interlinked threats and challenges, including violent conflicts, climate change, growing inequality, the impact of rapid technological innovation and ...

Posted on 20 Feb 2024

WEA-Obs

The challenge of responding to synthetic drug markets, through the lens of tramadol in West Africa

The challenge of responding to synthetic drug markets, through the lens of tramadol in West Africa

...Across Africa, the GI-TOC has documented the proliferation of synthetic drugs, the resulting transformation of drugs markets and the escalation of drug-related harm. The nature of synthetic drug mark...

Posted on 19 Feb 2024

Author(s): Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo, Mouhamadou Kane, Jason Eligh, Lyes Tagziria

UN Cyberwatch

A dream deferred or a near miss? UN committee postpones decision on cybercrime convention

...While supporters of the UN’s cybercrime treaty have seen their dreams deferred with the convention’s postponement, those concerned about the treaty’s potential impact on human rights and freedom...

Posted on 15 Feb 2024

Author(s): Darren Brookbanks, Ana Paula Oliveira

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Resilience Fund

‘We just want to find our children’

‘We just want to find our children’

...People from all walks of life have disappeared during Mexico’s so-called ‘war on drugs’; many others become victims of the growing global human trafficking industry; migrants go missing as they ...

Posted on 14 Feb 2024

Author(s): Radha Barooah, Ana Paula Oliveira, Siria Gastelum Felix

#GIDisappearances, Assassination Witness, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Resilience Fund

Hacer periodismo en la soledad

...México es un país con una historia de censura hacia periodistas y defensores. Una historia contada por el cierre de espacios de expresión, asesinatos, desapariciones y agresiones físicas. Quienes ...

Posted on 13 Feb 2024