Wildlife Watch

Illicit Migration to Europe: Consequences of Illegal Fishing and Overfishing in West Africa

Illicit Migration to Europe

...Abajo la versión en español The populations of West Africa, home to one of the world’s most resource-rich marine environments, is suffering widespread poverty and a paucity of legitimate livel...

Posted on 08 May 2015

Crime & Conflict, Drug Policy, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Resilience Fund

Drugs and Drug Trafficking in Brazil: Trends and Policies

...Urban violence and crime have been rising in Brazil for the past four decades, despite progressive improvement in the country’s social and economic conditions.1 Violence is usually recognized as a m...

Posted on 05 May 2015

Crime & Conflict, Drug Policy

Crime, Violence, and Politics: Drug Trafficking and Counternarcotics Policies in Mali and Guinea

...This paper examines the current state of counternarcotics policies and policy reform debates in Mali and Guinea, two West African countries that in recent years have been significantly affected, to va...

Posted on 05 May 2015

Global Initiative

Wildlife in Crisis: a 3-evening public debate

...You are most cordially invited to join us for a 3-evening seminar hosted at the University of Cape Town, from the 18-20 May, 18:00 - 20:30 CET.  The meeting will also be live streamed. To regi...

Posted on 04 May 2015

RESPECT

Living the dream? Human Trafficking, the other organized crime problem in sports

...Abajo la versión en español. Where there is money to be made there will be crime. This expression is no truer than in the case of professional sports. Whether in proven cases of match fixing such...

Posted on 27 Apr 2015

Development Dialogue, Sustainable Development Goals

Beyond the SDGs: Implementing Results-based approaches to Organized Crime and Development

Beyond the SDGs: Implementing Results-Based Approaches to Organised Crime and Development

...In a recent publication, "Organized Crime as a Cross-Cutting Threat to Development" the Global Initiative proved that the organized crime severely impacts the international community’s capacity to ...

Posted on 22 Apr 2015

Global Initiative

Deaths in the Med: search and rescue won’t stop the smuggling

...Abajo la versión en español The death toll of migrants dying in the Mediterranean is unquestionably of grave humanitarian concern and an epic travesty of human rights. This sea crossing between N...

Posted on 20 Apr 2015

Wildlife Watch

Illegal Fishing: the overlooked organized environmental crime

Illegal Fishing

...More than 90% of the world’s fisheries are currently fully or over-exploited.  A 2008 study estimated that the annual global illicit fishing catch was between 11 - 26 million tonnes, equal to more ...

Posted on 16 Apr 2015

TOCLaw, Wildlife Watch

Strengthening the global legal architecture to combat environmental crime

Strengthening the Global Legal Architecture to Combat Environmental Crime

...At a side event to the UN Crime Congress currently ongoing in Doha, The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime and the WWF presented a new report entitled “Tightening the Net: Tow...

Posted on 14 Apr 2015

Crime & Conflict, Development Dialogue, Protecting Politics, Resilience Fund

States of Fragility: Organized crime as a driver of fragility

...Abajo la versión en español The OECD launched their "States of Fragility Report 2015" this month in Paris.  This was the latest iteration of the Fragile States Reports that the OECD has been pub...

Posted on 08 Apr 2015

Private Sector, RESPECT

Webinar: Labour Exploitation and the Construction Industry

...Date: Wednesday, 15th April 2015 According to the International Labour Organization and other sources, labour exploitation currently makes up the largest percentage of those who are trafficked. Some ...

Posted on 04 Apr 2015

Development Dialogue, UN-TOC Watch

Policy or progress? Countdown to UNGASS 2016

...Although the 58th Session of the Commission on Narcotics Drugs (CND) closed with an announcement of the dates for the long-awaited UN General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem (UNGASS...

Posted on 24 Mar 2015