Assassination Witness, Protecting Politics

The Rise and Fall of the Johannesburg ‘Bouncer Mafia’

The Rise and Fall of the Johannesburg ‘Bouncer Mafia’

...Mark Shaw's latest article with Simone Haysom for the Journal for Modern African Studies recounts the rise and fall of the Johannesburg bouncer mafia, a series of violent and competing groups that do...

Posted on 06 Jul 2016

Wildlife Watch

Event: Report launch on the illicit rhino horn trade

...The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, the WWF and the Geneva Environment Platform organised the Geneva launch of "Beyond borders: Crime, conservation and criminal networks in th...

Posted on 01 Jul 2016

Global Initiative

Smuggling Networks to Europe: A spectrum from organised to disorganised crime

... As Europe struggles to find a coherent approach to its burgeoning refugee and migrant crisis, one set of actors has been universally vilified: the migrant smugglers. While they are not the cause o...

Posted on 29 Jun 2016

Global Initiative

Caught in the Crossfire

Caught in the Crossfire: United Nations Security and Policy Perspectives on the Refugee Crisis

...What began in 2014 as news reports of boats sinking in the Mediterranean has today grown into one of the world’s most tangled Gordian knots – a profound humanitarian and security challenge affecti...

Posted on 28 Jun 2016

Development Dialogue, ENACT, Private Sector

The Mafia in the Park A charcoal syndicate is threatening Virunga, Africa’s oldest national park

...An illegal charcoal cartel is helping to finance one of the most prominent militias in central Africa and destroying parts of Africa’s oldest national park. Nursing alliances with Congolese army and...

Posted on 24 Jun 2016

Wildlife Watch

Convergence: What kidneys, cigarettes and rhino horn have in common

...“The rhino horn trade is one of the most successful examples of illicit entrepreneurship in the world.” This striking statement was made by Professor Louise Shelley of TRACCC at George Mason Univ...

Posted on 23 Jun 2016

Global Initiative

Event: Reviewing the State of Safety in World Cities

...The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime joined the UN-HABITAT and the Geneva Peacebuilding Platform’s conference on Reviewing the State of Safety in World Cities: Safer Cities +...

Posted on 23 Jun 2016

Gold Watch

The Battle for Mineral Wealth in Afghanistan: a Microcosm of Organized Crime trends

...On 5 June 2016 Global Witness released the report War in the Treasury of the People: Afghanistan, Lapis Lazuli and the Battle for Mineral Wealth. The two-year investigation into lapis lazuli and to...

Posted on 21 Jun 2016

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

The geography of criminal power in Tijuana, Mexico

...The geography of criminal power is a physical manifestation - a location in time and space - where criminal influence can be visibly witnessed, and a lens through which it can be analysed.  In Tijua...

Posted on 14 Jun 2016

Protecting Politics, Resilience Fund

It’s a dangerous time to be a journalist. So how do we protect them?

...According to a report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), 69 journalists were confirmed killed doing their work in 2015 and more than two thirds of them were intentionally targeted in hits...

Posted on 13 Jun 2016

Global Initiative

EVENT: Countering Migrant Smuggling: Towards a more comprehensive approach

...Tuesday Reitano, Head of the Secretariat of the Global Initiative, co-chaired a seminar at the Academy of European Law (ERA) entitled "Countering Migrant Smuggling: towards a more comprehensive appr...

Posted on 10 Jun 2016

Wildlife Watch

World Environment Day: Value of Environmental Crime is up 26%

...Eco-crime hits record high at up to $258 billion, outstripping the illegal trade in small arms, as international criminal gangs and militant groups profit from the plunder of Earth’s resources Th...

Posted on 05 Jun 2016