RESPECT

Aggravating circumstances: How coronavirus impacts human trafficking

Aggravating circumstances:

... The coronavirus is not only claiming hundreds of thousands of lives, but is also causing a global economic crisis that is expected to rival or exceed that of any recession in the past 150 years. Alth...

Posted on 02 Jun 2020

Author(s): Livia Wagner, Thi Hoang

NAS-Obs

A rising tide: Trends in production, trafficking and consumption of drugs in North Africa

A rising tide:

... This report offers a sizing and analysis of the developing trends around drugs in the Maghreb. It begins by detailing the production of narcotics in the Maghreb, including both cannabis and poppie...

Posted on 01 Jun 2020

Author(s): Matt Herbert, Max Gallien

ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

A Shallow Flood: The Diffusion of Heroin in Eastern and Southern Africa

A Shallow Flood:

... The flow of heroin from Asian production points to the coastal shores of eastern and southern Africa is not new. Whereas the first heroin transit routes in the region in the 1970s relied heavily o...

Posted on 28 May 2020

Author(s): Jason Eligh

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

#CovidCrimeWatch – n°10

... By the end of this week, it will be five months since a cluster of cases of pneumonia were reported in Wuhan and a novel coronavirus was identified. While over 350 000 confirmed deaths from COVID-19 ...

Posted on 27 May 2020

Author(s): Lyes Tagziria

Global Initiative

Has environmental crime changed during the COVID-19 crisis?

... As we see clean skies above formerly polluted cities, many environmentalists are celebrating the reduced impact on nature from the lowered consumption of fossil fuels and human activity. Most have no...

Posted on 27 May 2020

Author(s): Shirleen Chin, Angélica Yovana Murillo Vega

UN-TOC Watch

Wildlife trafficking: Time for a radical rethink

... From calls for blanket bans in wildlife trade to the need for a new global agreement that focuses on wildlife crime, COVID-19 has shown the shortcomings of current efforts to curb the illicit wild...

Posted on 27 May 2020

Author(s): John M. Sellar OBE

Wildlife Watch, APA-Obs

China’s wildlife trade policy: What has changed since COVID-19?

... Since the start of 2020, we have seen some important changes in China’s wildlife trade policy. Although some represent significant new restrictions on commercial wildlife trade, much trade in th...

Posted on 27 May 2020

Author(s): Aron White

EUR-Obs

Lockdown in lock-up: Italy’s prison system has been plunged into crisis by the pandemic – and by the mafia.

... Mafia bosses 'free to come and go as they please'. Italy's prison system has been plunged into crisis by the pandemic – and by the mafia. The country's crime syndicates may have emerged healthie...

Posted on 20 May 2020

Author(s): Sergio Nazzaro, Lyes Tagziria, Ruggero Scaturro