ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

A Shallow Flood: The Diffusion of Heroin in Eastern and Southern Africa

A Shallow Flood:

... The flow of heroin from Asian production points to the coastal shores of eastern and southern Africa is not new. Whereas the first heroin transit routes in the region in the 1970s relied heavily o...

Posted on 28 May 2020

Author(s): Jason Eligh

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

#CovidCrimeWatch – n°10

... By the end of this week, it will be five months since a cluster of cases of pneumonia were reported in Wuhan and a novel coronavirus was identified. While over 350 000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 ...

Posted on 27 May 2020

Author(s): Lyes Tagziria

Global Initiative

Has environmental crime changed during the COVID-19 crisis?

... As we see clean skies above formerly polluted cities, many environmentalists are celebrating the reduced impact on nature from the lowered consumption of fossil fuels and human activity. Most have no...

Posted on 27 May 2020

Author(s): Shirleen Chin, Angélica Yovana Murillo Vega

UN-TOC Watch

Wildlife trafficking: Time for a radical rethink

... From calls for blanket bans in wildlife trade to the need for a new global agreement that focuses on wildlife crime, COVID-19 has shown the shortcomings of current efforts to curb the illicit wild...

Posted on 27 May 2020

Author(s): John M. Sellar OBE

Wildlife Watch, APA-Obs

China’s wildlife trade policy: What has changed since COVID-19?

... Since the start of 2020, we have seen some important changes in China’s wildlife trade policy. Although some represent significant new restrictions on commercial wildlife trade, much trade in th...

Posted on 27 May 2020

Author(s): Aron White

EUR-Obs

Lockdown in lock-up: Italy’s prison system has been plunged into crisis by the pandemic – and by the mafia.

... Mafia bosses 'free to come and go as they please'. Italy's prison system has been plunged into crisis by the pandemic – and by the mafia. The country's crime syndicates may have emerged healthie...

Posted on 20 May 2020

Author(s): Sergio Nazzaro, Lyes Tagziria, Ruggero Scaturro

Global Initiative

Economy, freedoms shrink in vulnerable Western Balkans

... Although the Western Balkans Six have not been as severely affected by the pandemic as other European countries, there is a risk that the unfolding economic crisis will intensify the region’s vulne...

Posted on 20 May 2020

Author(s): Fatjona Mejdini, Walter Kemp

Global Initiative

A Tale of Two Countries: COVID-19 and organized crime in the Korean Peninsula.

... There couldn’t be a starker contrast. Since its first confirmed case of an infection in late January, South Korea has responded swiftly and decisively, setting in motion a series of medically and t...

Posted on 20 May 2020

Author(s): Joongyoung Hahm, Mark Ronan