Wildlife Watch

Human Rights in a hostile environment

...Identifying the issue Environmental crime, in almost all its forms, has, in recent years, been recognized as an issue that is worthy of considerably greater political attention and law enforcement ...

Posted on 30 Jun 2017

Global Initiative

Event: ISMA Conference

...On 26 June 2017, the Global Initiative presented our research at the International Security Management Association (ISMA) conference in Berlin. Two different presentations highlighted our work in the ...

Posted on 30 Jun 2017

Global Initiative

Organised Environmental Crimes: Trends, theory, impact and responses

Organised Enviromental Crimes

... South African Crime Quarterly (SACQ) Vol. 60: Special Edition on Organised Environmental Crime Once considered peripheral, and a green matter, wildlife crimes have moved up global security and poli...

Posted on 29 Jun 2017

Global Initiative

The Role of Smugglers in Protection for the People the Move

...Presentation of Tuesday Reitano, Deputy Director, to the UNHCR Annual Consultations with NGOs 2017 on Wednesday 14 June 2017 at the UNHCR headquarters in Geneva. The Global Initiative was glad to ...

Posted on 19 Jun 2017

UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

Strengthening the UN-System response to organised crime and illicit trafficking

...On 19 June there will be a high-level debate at the United Nations in New York on transnational organised crime convened by the President of the General Assembly. The debate marks the 25th annivers...

Posted on 14 Jun 2017

Global Initiative

TUBS students visiting GITOC

...Within the framework of their study tour to Geneva-based international organizations, the students of the Technische Universität of Braunschweig (Institut für Sozialwissenschaften - TUBS) had the ...

Posted on 08 Jun 2017

RESPECT

Connecting human trafficking and conflict

...  As regional conflicts around the world have both multiplied and intensified, becoming situations of protracted conflict between multiple parties, an alarming increase in human traffickin...

Posted on 08 Jun 2017

Author(s): Kathryn Kosanovich

Crime & Conflict, Crime Terror Nexus, Protecting Politics

Captured by Captagon? Lebanon’s evolving illicit drug economy

Captured by Captagon?

...The latest report by the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime “Captured by Captagon? Lebanon’s evolving illicit drug economy” highlights a worrying trend of rising Captagon pr...

Posted on 05 Jun 2017

Author(s): Jeremy Arbid

RESPECT

Nepal: Turning people into profits: Abusive recruitment, trafficking, and forced labor of Nepali migrant workers

...This report provides fresh evidence that despite recently-introduced government reforms, entrenched patterns of abuse of Nepali migrant workers remain unaddressed. During recruitment processes, local ...

Posted on 01 Jun 2017

RESPECT

Human Trafficking and Supply Chains: Recommendations to Reduce Human Trafficking in Local and Global Supply Chains

...The trafficking of persons is a growing human rights problem that affects individuals locally and globally and is exacerbated by public and private supply chains. Outsourcing goods and services to ...

Posted on 01 Jun 2017

Global Initiative

Tubu Trouble: State and Statelessness in the Chad–Sudan–Libya Triangle

...By Jérôme Tubiana and Claudio Gramizzi This paper looks at the recent history of the Tibesti region in Chad and the Teda (or 'Tubu') people who inhabit the area. More specifically, the authors exam...

Posted on 01 Jun 2017

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics

When Corruption Is the Operating System: The Case of Honduras

...by Sarah Chayes In some five dozen countries worldwide, corruption can no longer be understood as merely the iniquitous doings of individuals. Rather, it is the operating system of sophisticated net...

Posted on 30 May 2017