Illegal online trade in Indonesian Parrots
This report aims to address how the illegal parrot trade is conducted online, and to what extent the use of internet-based platforms has facilitated...
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The role of online platforms in the illegal orchid trade
The ornamental orchid trade is global and comprises both a large, well-established legal market and a significant but largely unknown illegal trade....
Tracing Golden Threads: Illicit Financial Flows from Gold in Mongolia and the Philippines
Starting in 2015, the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (Global Initiative) has consistently undertaken work examining the...
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China ban on ivory significant to environmental conservation
Written by Joyce Kimani, a journalist sponsored under the ENACT programme partnership with Thomson Reuters. China’s ban on the ivory trade has...
Abalone poaching
An illicit supply chain connecting marginalized South African coastal communities with wealthy Chinese consumers has all but depleted South...
IOM human trafficking remediation guidelines
The IOM’s recent Remediation Guidelines for Victims of Human Trafficking in Mineral Supply Chains should encourage business to both prevent and...
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GIN Interview – Gulnara Shahinian
A counter-trafficking consultant and former special rapporteur to the UN on contemporary slavery, Gulnara Shahinian has spent her career trying to...
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Illicit Trade: Fuelling Terror Financing and Organised Crime
Recently, it has been observed that illicit trade became one of the favourite mechanism used by terrorist organisations to finance their operations....
ASEAN & ACTIP: Using a Regional Legal Framework to Fight a Global Crime
BACKGROUND TO ACTIP The ASEAN Convention Against Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (ACTIP) has been developed in recognition of...
Risk Averse? Company reporting on raw material and sector-specific risks under the Transparency in Supply Chains clause in the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Background Section 54 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, the Transparency in Supply Chains Reporting clause requires all commercial...