APA-Obs

Cannabis legalization in Thailand: Exploring impacts on markets and organized crime

Cannabis legalization in Thailand

...Initially set in motion by community-led advocacy in 2016, the legal amendments about cannabis consumption, distribution, and production in Thailand over the period from 2018 to 2022 created a de fact...

Posted on 16 Jan 2024

Author(s): Pascal Tanguay

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Pascal Tanguay

...Pascal Tanguay has worked and provided leadership in the field of drug policy for the past 20 years, particularly in Thailand and elsewhere in Asia. Pascal was recognized by Her Royal Highness Princes...

Posted on 16 Jan 2024
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Aron Hyman

Senior Analyst, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

... Aron Hyman is a senior analyst with the Global Initiative. Before that he was a multi award-winning investigative journalist with 8 years experience working for the Sunday Times, South Africa's le...

Posted on 15 Jan 2024
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Diego Pérez Damasco

Communications and Outreach Officer, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

... Diego joined the GI-TOC in January 2024. He is a communications professional with experience in the media industry, international cooperation and NGOs. As a Communications and Outreach Officer, Dieg...

Posted on 15 Jan 2024

WEA-Obs

The tri-border tangle

The tri-border tangle

... The tri-border area of Chad, Cameroon and the Central African Republic (CAR) is one of the least-studied borderland regions of West Africa, despite its growing strategic importance. Following ...

Posted on 09 Jan 2024

Author(s): Eleanor Beevor, Alexandre Bish

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, North America Strategic Platform on Organized Crime

Mexico’s avocado boom and organized crime

Violent and vibrant

...The contemporary boom of global avocado consumption has drawn attention to Mexico’s industry and the expanding criminal networks that surround it. In fact, avocado production and exports – both to...

Posted on 05 Jan 2024

Author(s): Romain Le-Cour-Grandmaison, Paul Frissard Martinez

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Paul Frissard Martinez

... Paul Frissard Martinez is an independent consultant and policy analyst, working on drugs policy, access to justice and public security. He has been a senior analyst at México Evalua, an ar...

Posted on 05 Jan 2024
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Nicholas Pope

... Nicholas Pope is a research fellow in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London. His research focuses on the violence and conflict dynamics of development processes, with spec...

Posted on 04 Jan 2024

Global Initiative

Militias and urban governance in Rio de Janeiro

Coercive brokers

... Militia involvement in the land and real estate sector is widespread across the city and metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro. This report shows that the poorly regulated real estate and proper...

Posted on 04 Jan 2024

Author(s): Antônio Sampaio, Nicholas Pope

Global Initiative

Annual report 2023

Annual report

...In September 2013, the GI-TOC was conceived as a platform to articulate a vision for more effective responses to organized crime. This 10th birthday year was an opportunity not to celebrate, but rathe...

Posted on 01 Jan 2024
22 Dec

UN Reform

Rethinking human rights and responses to organized crime

Rethinking human rights and responses to organized crime

...The year 2023 was a landmark in terms of assessing new challenges to the universalization of human rights. The anniversaries of three key instruments provided an opportunity to reflect on the human ri...

Posted on 27 Dec 2023

Author(s): Ana Paula Oliveira

Global Organized Crime Index, EUR-Obs

The rise and fall of an anti-mafia hero

...In a recent court decision, a former Italian anti-mafia judge has been sentenced to imprisonment. The case raises alarming questions about the independence of the Italian judiciary. According to the ...

Posted on 18 Dec 2023

Author(s): Ruggero Scaturro

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