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...Lorraine Mallinder is an independent freelance journalist, published by the BBC, RTÉ, The Irish Times, PRI/Global Post, The Guardian, Al Jazeera and many others. She has reported on stories like the ...
Posted on 21 Mar 2018
Global Initiative
...Recorded on 07 November 2017 From the 70 year old “War on Drugs”, to the more recent “War on Human Smuggling”, politicians use militarised responses to look decisive on crime. The deploymen...
Posted on 20 Mar 2018
UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC
...The world is changing and so is transnational organized crime. Yet the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) remains stuck in its original mould, struggling to be relevant. Why d...
Author(s): Peter Gastrow
...Guy Vinet is a colonel (rtd) of the French Gendarmerie. He worked extensively in South Eastern Europe for the UN, NATO and the European Union. He held many Gendarmerie leadership positions, worked as ...
Posted on 18 Mar 2018
Latinoamérica y el Caribe, AR-Obs
...Authors: David C. Brotherton & Rafael Gude Since 2007, the Ecuadorian approach to crime control has emphasized efforts to reach higher levels of social control based on policies of social incl...
Posted on 16 Mar 2018
RESPECT
...The extractive industry is highly vulnerable to human rights abuses and environmental crime, such as human trafficking along with the uncontrolled use of toxic substances and deforestation. The sourci...
Posted on 15 Mar 2018
Latinoamérica y el Caribe
...Manuel Alcántara Sáez Villagonzalo de Tormes Prólogo El control de la violencia legítima es la razón de ser del Estado. Como bien se conoce, se debe a Max Weber la formulación de ese axiom...
UN-TOC Watch
...From a personal perspective, both as a veteran law-enforcement officer and someone raised in an inner-city area that experienced its fair share of drug problems, I have seen first-hand the destructive...
Author(s): James Soiles
...How would you assess the current state of the debate around decriminalization of drugs? There have certainly been positive developments since the Global Commission issued its report on the failed ...
Author(s): Ruth Dreifuss, Julia Stanyard
...Ruth Dreifuss is former president and Minister of Home Affairs of Switzerland. During her time in office (1993–2002), she implemented new policy to combat drug addiction and enhance prevention of HI...
... Dr Alexandre Bish is the Head of Research Innovation in the North Africa and Sahel Observatory. He is also Honorary Research Fellow at UCL and the co-founder of MyRA, an ethical AI platform ...
Assassination Witness, SA-Obs
...Summary This report presents an analysis of data on hits (contract killings) carried out in South Africa. The data has been compiled as part of the work of a collaborative project, Assassination Wi...
Posted on 14 Mar 2018
Author(s): Kim Thomas
