Global Organized Crime Index

The spoils of crime: Returning profit from crime to society

...Profit and power drive organized crime groups. Whether operating cocaine routes through Belgium or the Netherlands, trafficking arms and ammunitions in the Western Balkans, or smuggling humans across ...

Posted on 29 Oct 2024

Author(s): Chiara Gentili

Global Initiative

Narcas

...Joaquín ‘El Chapo’ Guzmán is a name that stands out in the world of organized crime, on par with figures such as Al Capone and Pablo Escobar. But during El Chapo’s trial in 2018–2019, one wo...

Posted on 29 Oct 2024

Author(s): Mark Shaw

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

After the war on drugs: The impacts of cocaine and cannabis regulation in Rio de Janeiro

After the war on drugs:

...What would the consequences of the potential cocaine and cannabis regulation in Rio de Janeiro be? This report dives into analyzing these potential impacts in a city long plagued by violence linked to...

Posted on 28 Oct 2024

Author(s): Carolina Christoph Grillo

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Carolina Christoph Grillo

...Carolina Christoph Grillo is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Sciences Methodology at Fluminense Federal University in Brazil and coordinator of the Group of Studies on New Illega...

Posted on 28 Oct 2024
21 Oct

Cities and Regions United for Biodiversity, Eco-Solve, UN-TOC Watch, AR-Obs

The GI-TOC at the 16th CoP to the Convention on Biological Diversity

...The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) will participate in the 16th Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP16), taking place in Cali,...

Posted on 22 Oct 2024

EUR-Obs

The looming threat of synthetic opioids in Europe?

...For over 20 years, the opioid crisis in North America has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, primarily due to over-prescribing by doctors and marketing by pharmaceutical companies of powerful opi...

Posted on 22 Oct 2024

Author(s): Ruggero Scaturro, Daniel Brombacher

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Raph Mackintosh

Analyst, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

...Raphael is an Admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa. His areas of expertise encompass corporate and commercial law, financial sector regulations, pension law, and public law litigation. ...

Posted on 21 Oct 2024
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Lauren Young

Analyst, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

...Lauren Young is an Analyst at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC). She joined in October 2024 and is currently working on the EU-funded ECO-SOLVE project, primarily on...

Posted on 21 Oct 2024

WEA-Obs

West Africa Risk Bulletin #11

Observatory of illicit economies in West Africa

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF Click here to view the Global Organized Crime Index fr Français Observatory of Illicit Economies in West Africa Issue 11 October 2024 Summary highlights IS Sahel: Consolida...

Posted on 21 Oct 2024

Eco-Solve, AMA-Obs

Criminal networks are driving the Amazon’s climate emergency

...Over the past year, a record number of mass fires have occurred across the Amazon basin. Many of them, particularly those in the Brazilian Amazon – which accounts for over 60 per cent of the rainfor...

Posted on 16 Oct 2024

Author(s): Gabriel Funari, Gabriel Granjo

Global Initiative

Chasing shadows

...Few people recognize the crucial role organized crime plays in supporting terrorism, a relationship known as the crime–terror nexus. A few years ago, Financial Times investigative journalist Miles J...

Posted on 15 Oct 2024

Author(s): Mark Shaw

Global Initiative

Urbanization, Peace, and Security

Urbanization, Peace, and Security

...The global population’s demographic and social transition into predominantly urban environments has implications for security dynamics and efforts to promote peace. Yet cities, their governments, an...

Posted on 11 Oct 2024

Author(s): Antônio Sampaio

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