Protecting Politics

The world in-between: Mafia Capitale blurs the lines of organized crime

...Abajo la versión en español. Operation “Mondo di Mezzo” has rocked the foundations of Italian society.  This investigation by the Italian police has revealed the astonishing penetration of t...

Posted on 27 Jan 2015

Development Dialogue, Sustainable Development Goals

Organized Crime: a cross-cutting threat to development

Organized Crime: A Cross-Cutting Threat to Sustainable Development

...There is a growing understanding of how organized crime threatens sustainable development. This recognition has found its way into key policy documents on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, such as the...

Posted on 13 Jan 2015

Global Initiative

Business, Corruption And Crime In Albania: The impact of bribery and other crime on private enterprise

...This survey of private businesses in Albania reveals that corruption and other forms of crime are a great hindrance to private enterprise and have a negative effect on private investment. A significan...

Posted on 29 Dec 2014

Global Initiative

The Socio-Economic Impact of Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling in Pakistan

...Human trafficking and migrant smuggling remains an unabated challenge for the international community as it affects almost every country in the world where millions of people are trapped in the form o...

Posted on 29 Dec 2014

Development Dialogue, Drug Policy

The Negative Impact of Drug Control on Public Health: the global crisis of unavoidable pain

...The international drug control system is stoking a global crisis of inequitable access to controlled medicines. Of the global population, an estimated 5.5 billion have poor to nonexistent access to op...

Posted on 20 Dec 2014

Global Initiative

World Drug Report 2014

...The World Drug Report 2014 is aimed at helping the international community to address the toll that illicit drug production, trafficking and consumption continues to take on all our societies, by pro...

Posted on 20 Dec 2014

Global Initiative

Police Ransomware Threat Assessment

...Over the past two years, European Union (EU) Member States (MS) have been confronted with a significant proliferation of police ransomware cases. Experts from both law enforcement and the private sect...

Posted on 18 Dec 2014

Global Initiative

Global Surveillance of Dirty Money: Assessing Assessments of Regimes to Control Money Laundering and CFT

...The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF, Fund) program on Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) has been integrally involved in the global system for AML/CFT in coo...

Posted on 12 Dec 2014

RESPECT

Next Generation Human Trafficking and Smuggling Challenges

Next Generation Human Trafficking and Smuggling Challenges

...The Global Initiative and Babson College are pleased to share the recording of the first in our series of six webinars, entitled Next Generation Human Trafficking and Smuggling Challenges. Nationa...

Posted on 11 Dec 2014

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Displaced by organized crime: unseen and forgotten

...In the north-west Mexican state of Sinaloa, thousands of families have been forced to abandon their homes, land and belongings by organized criminal groups. These people, forcibly uprooted by viole...

Posted on 11 Dec 2014

Crime & Conflict, Sanctions and organized crime

Instability and Opportunities: Illicit Trafficking and Trade in the Sahara

Instability and Opportunities: Illicit Trafficking and Trade in the Sahara

...Mark Shaw and Tuesday Reitano of the Global Initiative Secretariat were invited to contribute to the World Bank's Saharan Knowledge Series with a paper, "Instability and Opportunity: illicit trafficki...

Posted on 11 Dec 2014

Crime & Conflict, Development Dialogue

Sustainable approaches to countering organised crime in Mali and the Sahel

Sustainable approaches to countering organised crime in Mali and the Sahel

...In mid-October, International Alert and the Global Initiative co-hosted a seminar in Bamako, Mali, with representatives of Government, international donors, multi-lateral organisations and internation...

Posted on 01 Dec 2014