Global Initiative

FATF: Illicit Tobacco Trade

...The illicit tobacco trade is prone to money laundering. Trade is considered to be cash intensive and profitable whilst being accompanied by low levels of risk posed to the criminal groupings (in ter...

Posted on 12 Jun 2012

Protecting Politics

How Globalisation Affects Transnational Crime

...As world leaders increasingly debate drug legalization, at the Council on Foreign Relations, Stewart Patrick and GI Network Member, Phil Williams of the University of Pittsburgh discuss the explosion ...

Posted on 31 May 2012

RESPECT

FATF: Money Laundering Risks from Human Smuggling and Trafficking

...There is growing evidence that criminals are turning to trafficking in human beings (THB) and the smuggling of migrants (SOM) to a greater extent as these crimes are seen as highly profitable. The mon...

Posted on 12 Mar 2012

Global Initiative

Justice for Forests: Improving Criminal Justice Efforts to Combat Illegal Logging

...Every two seconds, across the world, an area of forest the size of a football field is clear-cut by illegal loggers.1 In some countries, up to 90 percent of all the logging taking place is illegal.2 E...

Posted on 18 Feb 2012

Global Initiative

Management and Disposal of Confiscated Criminal Assets

...The management and disposal of confiscated assets are important aspects of the overall process of confiscation, but they still remain marginal to the public debate in Bulgaria.  The existing legal...

Posted on 01 Jan 2012

Protecting Politics

Examining the Dimensions, Scale and Dynamics of the Illegal Economy: a study of Pakistan in the region

...Pakistan is uniquely placed in the crime and illegal economy nexus due to its geographic location. This study - the first of its kind in Pakistan - has been commissioned by the United Nations Office o...

Posted on 29 Dec 2011

Global Initiative

Drug Dealers, Drug Lords and Drug Warriors-cum-Traffickers: Drug Crime and the Narcotics Market in Tajikistan

... While there have been many studies and reports on law enforcement agencies’ involvement in the drug trade in Central Asia as well as on general issues of corruption amongst the police, suc...

Posted on 22 Dec 2011

Development Dialogue

War on Drugs: report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy

...The global war on drugs has failed, with devastating consequences for individuals and societies around the world. Fifty years after the initiation of the UN Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, and 40...

Posted on 20 Dec 2011

Protecting Politics

Afghanistan’s Drug Career Evolution from a War Economy to a Drug Economy

...The commercial production of drugs in Afghanistan began with the anti-Soviet jihad launched by muja- hedeen groups in 1979 with the financial and logis- tical support of the CIA, the United States and...

Posted on 20 Dec 2011

Global Initiative

Europe and Afghan Heroin

...Too great a focus on traditional security issues can make us lose track of how intertwined they are with the drug problem. The importance of poppy cultivation to the finances of the Taliban and other ...

Posted on 20 Dec 2011

Global Initiative

World Drug Report 2011

...Today there is widespread recognition among Member States and United Nations entities that drugs, together with organized crime, jeopardize the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals. It is i...

Posted on 20 Dec 2011

Private Sector

Internet Facilitated Organised Crime

...As a communication tool, information source, marketplace, recruiting ground and financial service the Internet facilitates all types of offline organised criminality, including illicit drug extraction...

Posted on 18 Dec 2011
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