Illicit wildlife markets and the dark web
This brief gives an overview of the online illicit wildlife trade (IWT), and analyzes the current state of this market, and speculates on its likely...
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Curbing Illicit Mercury and Gold Flows in West Africa
On 19 November, Senior Analyst Marcena Hunter presented the report Curbing Illicit Mercury and Gold Flows in West Africa: Options for a Regional...
Where crime compounds conflict
This report seeks to explain how the outbreak of violent conflict in northern Mozambique, driven by a group known locally as ‘Al Shabaab’, is...
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UN sanctions against transnational criminals
What the recent Libya listings tell us about the use of UN sanctions against transnational crime. In June 2018, the UN Security Council Committee...
Abalone poaching
An illicit supply chain connecting marginalized South African coastal communities with wealthy Chinese consumers has all but depleted South...
Trade infrastructure and organized crime
Trade infrastructure may enable the economic benefits of globalization, but at the same time it can also make countries more vulnerable to organized...
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Empty Shells: An assessment of abalone poaching and trade in southern Africa
Organised criminal syndicates drive collapse of South African abalone 96 million abalone poached in 18 years, new TRAFFIC report finds Over the past...
Global Shining Light Award Winner: Emmanuel Mayah
Every two years, the Global Investigative Journalism Network presents the Global Shining Light Award, a unique prize that honors investigative...
Hitmen for Hire: Exposing South Africa’s Underworld (video)
Contract killing and targeted “hits” in South Africa have become widespread and deeply embedded into parts of the country’s history of systemic...
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Global Shining Light Award Winner: Emmanuel Mayah
Every two years, the Global Investigative Journalism Network presents the Global Shining Light Award, a unique prize that honors investigative...
Hitmen for Hire: Exposing South Africa’s Underworld (video)
Contract killing and targeted “hits” in South Africa have become widespread and deeply embedded into parts of the country’s history of systemic...
GIN Interview – Jean-Luc Peduzzi, Head of the Dakar Platform
As law enforcement attaché to the embassy of France in Dakar, Jean-Luc Peduzzi, who is tasked with implementing bilateral security co-operation with...
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Data bulletins: improving migration data to implement the global compact for migration
IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre released an edited volume of the “Data Bulletin Series: Informing the Implementation of the Global...
Protecting Migrant Children
In this chapter, Arezo Malakooti (Senior expert on migration, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime), provides an overview of the...
Human Trafficking and People Smuggling in the Mediterranean Area
A chapter authored by Tuesday Reitano (Deputy Director, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime) for the 15th edition of the IEMed...