Wildlife Watch, APA-Obs

Asian roulette: Criminogenic casinos and illicit trade in environmental commodities in South East Asia

Asian roulette

...The Asia Pacific region is the largest and fastest-growing market for gambling in the world. The proliferation of physical and online casinos in South East Asia presents criminal entities with a myria...

Posted on 29 Jul 2022

Author(s): Amanda Gore, Lindsey Kennedy, Nathan Paul Southern, Daan van Uhm

MMFU

Media matters: Exposing Environmental Crime

Media matters

...The Global Initiative believes journalists play a vital role in investigating, exposing, and explaining the impacts of environmental crime to the general public. This maps highlights feature, data-dri...

Posted on 28 Jul 2022

Global Organized Crime Index, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Out of sight, out of mind: Latin America’s struggle to tackle human trafficking

...Human trafficking is the most pervasive illicit market in the world. In Latin America, the situation is particularly acute. Countries need to work together to respond to this growing threat. The 2021...

Posted on 28 Jul 2022

Author(s): Josefina Salomón

13 Dec

SEE-Obs

Portholes: Exploring the maritime Balkan routes

Portholes

...> click here to access the digital tool Despite the prevalence of trade over land, South Eastern Europe (SEE) also contains more than a hundred ports and 12 container terminals, which are im...

Posted on 26 Jul 2022

Author(s): Ruggero Scaturro, Walter Kemp

APA-Obs

Modern slavery in the Mekong’s casinos

...COVID-19 travel restrictions decimated the tourism industry worldwide. In South East Asia’s popular casino hubs, the sharp drop in visitor numbers, especially gamblers from China and Thailand, has f...

Posted on 25 Jul 2022

Author(s): Lindsey Kennedy, Nathan Paul Southern

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Nathan Paul Southern

Investigative journalist and security specialist, TePonui

...Nathan Paul Southern is an investigative journalist, a PhD Candidate at the University of St. Andrews, and a senior investigator at TePonui, an independent research consultancy. As a non-traditional s...

Posted on 25 Jul 2022
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Lindsey Kennedy

Director, TePonui Media

...Lindsey Kennedy is an investigative journalist, documentary filmmaker and the director of TePonui, an independent research consultancy. She studied at the universities of Cambridge and Glasgow and set...

Posted on 25 Jul 2022

Drug Policy, WEA-Obs

Cocaine politics in West Africa: Guinea-Bissau’s protection networks

Cocaine politics in West Africa

...Guinea-Bissau is a key entry point for cocaine into West Africa, a region that operates as a transit point on international cocaine trafficking routes between cultivation countries in Latin America an...

Posted on 22 Jul 2022

Author(s): Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo

20 Jul

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, CAM-Obs

Métodos y herramientas para el análisis de extorsión: los casos de Ciudad Juárez y Tijuana, México

...La extorsión es un fenómeno criminal presente en toda América Latina. México no es la excepción. México Evalúa, una organización de la sociedad civil con más de 10 años de experiencia en el...

Posted on 14 Jul 2022
21 Sep

MMFU, Wildlife Watch, APA-Obs

Online markets for pangolin-derived products

Online markets for pangolin-derived products

...The research described in this report attempts to shed a new light on a known major illicit wildlife-trade issue, namely the use of pangolin parts and scales in the manufacturing of a number of items,...

Posted on 14 Jul 2022

Author(s): Private: Théo Clément, Simone Haysom, Jack Pay

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Jack Pay

...Jack Pay is a partner at the Centre for the Analysis of Social Media and a research fellow at the University of Sussex. With a background in data science and computational linguistics, his recent work...

Posted on 14 Jul 2022

Global Organized Crime Index, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, CAM-Obs

El Camino

...Understanding the Index through our own stories 'El Camino' According to the Global Organized Crime Index, Guatemala ranks 23rd out of 193 countries in terms of high criminality and low resili...

Posted on 13 Jul 2022
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