Assassination Witness, SA-Obs

Faces of Assassination – The Podcast

... Organized crime is indiscriminate in who it targets. Not only are conflicts between, and within, criminal groups often settle with violence, but the same violence regularly claims the lives of inn...

Posted on 19 Aug 2020

Drug Policy, NAS-Obs

Drug Trafficking and Use in Libya and North Africa

...The trafficking and consumption of illicit drugs both within and through Libya are often overlooked as factors in the country’s fragile situation. But the dynamics of illicit drug trading and use in...

Posted on 14 Aug 2020

Author(s): Matt Herbert

ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin #10

Civil Society Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa Issue 10 July–August 2020 Summary highlights Iranian weapons supplied to the Houthis may end up in Somalia....

Posted on 13 Aug 2020

Sanctions and organized crime, EUR-Obs

Sanctions: A new UK tool against organized crime?

... New regulations adopted by the UK government will make it easier to sanction individuals and groups involved in human-rights violations and transnational organized crime. But the limited punitive ...

Posted on 10 Aug 2020

Author(s): Alexandre Prezanti

Assassination Witness, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Zezico Rodrigues Guajajara: Killed for defending the Amazon

... As the Global Initiative has emphasized in #AssassinationWitness, within the increasing global phenomenon of targeted assassinations, there is one emerging theme that merits particular attention. ...

Posted on 07 Aug 2020

Private Sector, APA-Obs

A Rough Cut Trade: Africa’s Coloured-Gemstone Flows to Asia

A Rough Cut Trade

... The coloured gemstone sector is an international trade linking supply countries in Africa and traders in Thailand and elsewhere in Asia. Today, there are more than 50 source countries and over a hun...

Posted on 31 Jul 2020

Author(s): Marcena Hunter, Lynda Lawson

CovidCrimeWatch

#CovidCrimeWatch – July

... As of 21 July 2020, almost 15 million cases of COVID-19 had been reported worldwide, and over 610 000 deaths registered. Although both have continued to decline in the last month in Europe, the vi...

Posted on 30 Jul 2020

Author(s): Lyes Tagziria