Global Initiative

Cybercrime: The “Digital Wildfire of the Hyper-connected World”

...On July 25th, U.S. authorities indicted six men for hacking into a dozen American companies.  Their criminal endeavours had been wildly successful, reportedly netting 160 million credit cards and $30...

Posted on 06 Jul 2013

Global Initiative

Of meth and men

...A drug epidemic is percolating through North Korea. Idle factories have been repurposed, and are pumping methamphetamine out to growing pool of users. Demand for the drug comes not only from well-heel...

Posted on 06 Jul 2013

Protecting Politics

Protecting democracy from drug money

...July saw the announcement of elections in two states struggling under the dark cloud of organized crime and drug trafficking – Mali, whose elections were completed as this brief was going to print; ...

Posted on 06 Jul 2013

Development Dialogue

The paradox of plenty: mineral trafficking, conflict and crime

...Natural resources and their illicit exploitation have been at the root of many of the world most protracted and painful conflicts.  The formidable wealth offered by exploration and exploitation right...

Posted on 06 Jul 2013

Private Sector, TOCLaw

INTERPOL Guide to Carbon Trading Crime

...Over recent decades there has been a growing scientific consensus that average global temperatures are rising as a result of increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere caused by hu...

Posted on 18 Jun 2013

Wildlife Watch

Kony’s Ivory: How Elephant Poaching in Congo Helps Support the Lord’s Resistance Army

...The Lord’s Resistance Army, or LRA, is now using elephant poaching as a means to sustain itself. LRA leader Joseph Kony—wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against...

Posted on 17 Jun 2013

Wildlife Watch

Blood ivory and the Obama Initiative

...The release of IFAW’s latest report “Criminal Nature: The Global Security Implications of Illegal Wildlife Trade 2013” was well timed with Obama’s $10 million investment in the fight against w...

Posted on 06 Jun 2013

Global Initiative

The new Somalia? Piracy in the Gulf of Guinea

...Over the last year, maritime piracy has surged in the waters off of West Africa. In the first quarter of 2013, 67 incidents were recorded, versus 34 in the first quarter of 2012. The model of piracy i...

Posted on 06 Jun 2013

Global Initiative

World Drug Report: key trends

...On June 26th, the UNODC issued its annual World Drug Report. The report highlighted a global drug market in flux, with new trends and markets emerging.  While the overall prevalence rates for illicit...

Posted on 06 Jun 2013

Private Sector

Exploring the Role of Civil Society Think Tanks in Countering Illicit Trade

...The newly established Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime hosted a discussion with a variety of civil society, think tank and academic organisations as an initial effort to bring ...

Posted on 28 May 2013

Global Initiative

Network Steering Committee Meeting – 29-30 April 2013

...The Steering Committee of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime met in Vienna on 29-30 April 2013.  This was the third meeting of the Steering Committee, and the first since fu...

Posted on 28 May 2013

Global Initiative

The Negative Impact of the War on Drugs on Public Health: the hidden hepatitis C epidemic

...Hepatitis C is a highly prevalent chronic viral infection which poses major public health, economic and social crises, particularly in low and middle income countries. The global hepatitis C epidemic ...

Posted on 20 May 2013
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