Protecting communities: Responding to the impact of urban drug markets
This paper looks at the challenge posed by urban drug markets, particularly the impact on crime, safety, and development. It combines a granular...
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Transformative Technologies: How digital is changing the landscape of organized crime
Advances in technology are continuing to transform the illicit-trade landscape as dramatically as they are changing its legal counterpart,...
Covid-19 and crime: A response develops at the UN
During the pandemic, the dynamics of illicit markets have been evident, as we have analyzed in other publications of our COVID Crime Watch series....
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Police reform needed for local and transnational crime
The violence sparking the protests in the United States and elsewhere around the world has prompted widespread calls to overhaul policing. This could...
#CovidCrimeWatch – n°12
Over the past 12 weeks, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) has closely monitored the impact of COVID-19 on the...
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Leveraging innovation to fight trafficking in human beings: A comprehensive analysis of technology tools
The intersection of technology and trafficking in human beings is one of the defining topics of the global conversation on efforts to end human...
Faces of Assassination – Virtual Launch
Date and time: 15 June at 2pm CESTLink to join the online launch: https://youtu.be/EHneN3RTyVc Moderator: Siria Gastelum...
They will never be silenced
On the third anniversary of the death of assassinated Mexican journalist Javier Valdez we reflect on how resilience and collective memory can help...
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Launch of the Resilience Fund (Photo Gallery)
The Resilience Fund was launched in Vienna, Austria at a high-level panel discussion in the margins of the 28th UN Commission on Crime Prevention and...
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Parallel contagion: Is mafia entrepreneurship exploiting the pandemic?
Chapter I – 22 April 2020 Concerned with reports of the Mafia’s exploitation of the current global crisis, the Global Initiative Against...
Kristin Ottesen Kvigne appointed as head of Norway’s leading anti-organized crime agency
The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) congratulates Kristin Kvigne on her new role as Chief of the Norwegian National...
Fighting corruption during the coronavirus
To dive deeper into the emerging relationship between corruption and the COVID-19 crisis response, the Global Initiative spoke with Heather...
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Enforcement of drug laws: Refocusing on Organized Crime Elites
In this first report of this decade, the Global Commission on Drug Policy outlines how the current international drug control regime works for the...
Technology, Anti-Trafficking, and Speculative Futures
Over the past decade, scholars, activists, and policymakers have repeatedly called for an examination of the role of technology as a contributing...
Munich Security Report 2019
Looking at the current state of international affairs it is difficult to escape the feeling that the world is not just witnessing a series of smaller...