Protecting Politics

Mafia-redux: is the Sicilian mafia in decline?

...Abajo la versión en español by Antonio De Bonis 22 years ago this week, on the 23rd May 1992, the courageous Italian prosecutor, Giovanni Falcone, was assassinated by a car bomb that was so pow...

Posted on 28 May 2014

Global Initiative

Aiding and abetting: a critical loophole in the fight against maritime piracy

...Abajo la versión en español Recent statistics from the International Maritime Bureau confirm that maritime piracy in Somalia is on the decline.  From the 237 incidents reported in 2011, there were...

Posted on 24 May 2014

Drug Policy

Ending the Drug Wars

...A major rethink of international drug policies is under way. The failure of the UN to achieve its goal of ‘a drug free world’ and the continuation of enormous collateral damage from excessively mi...

Posted on 20 May 2014

TOCLaw, Wildlife Watch

Video interview: Emerging trends in countering wildlife crime

...On the 8-9th April 2014, the Global Initiative's Expert Reference Group on Environmental Crime met at the GI premises in Geneva, Switzerland. The purpose of the meeting was to review the Global Ini...

Posted on 19 May 2014

Wildlife Watch

Money does grow on trees: Siamese rosewood smuggling and the criminal exploitation of forest resources

...Abajo la versión en español A new report by the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) details how criminal gangs are driving Siamese rosewood towards extinction to cash in on record prices, desp...

Posted on 12 May 2014

Global Initiative

Smuggled futures: the dangerous path of a migrant from Africa to Europe

Smuggled futures: the dangerous path of a migrant from Africa to Europe

...In October 2013, Italy captured international headlines when a boat carrying hundreds of asylum seekers sunk off its coast, killing over 360 people. The incident reflects the tremendous increase in Af...

Posted on 07 May 2014

Crime & Conflict, Crime Terror Nexus

Crime after Jihad: armed groups, the state and illicit business in post-conflict Mali

...Executive summary Mali’s descent into a war of secession at the start of 2012 was a conflict foretold. Yet what followed proved radically distinct from the country’s three previous episodes of in...

Posted on 05 May 2014

UN-TOC Watch

GIN Interview: Angela Me, Director of Research, UNODC

...As Director of Research at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Angela Me has an enviable birds-eye view of the complex matrix that comprises transnational organized crime – or at le...

Posted on 01 May 2014

Global Initiative

Permission to Board? Challenges to seizing drugs at sea in the Indian Ocean

... In the four months to date for 2014, warships from the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) Task Force 150 (CTF 150) have seized in excess of 2,000 kg of heroin being trafficked in dhows via the Indian Oc...

Posted on 29 Apr 2014

Global Initiative

Cybercrime: getting paid and getting away with it

...by Raj Samani EMEA CTO McAfee Abajo la versión en español Money acts as one of the key drivers for cybercrime. Add to this the lower risk, and there is little wonder that we are witnessing the evo...

Posted on 24 Apr 2014

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Wildlife Watch

Narco-deforestation and community resilience

...Abajo la versión en español A recent study in Science journal entitled "Drug Policy as Conservation Policy: Narco-Deforestation” suggests that the trafficking of drugs (principally cocaine) h...

Posted on 23 Apr 2014

Global Initiative

Entertainment piracy: fair game, or organized crime?

...Abajo la versión en español This month, the acclaimed HBO TV Show Game of Thrones broke online piracy records with one million illegal downloads in just half a day. Online pirating in the enter...

Posted on 21 Apr 2014