Dark Pharma: Counterfeit and Contraband Pharmaceuticals in Central America
This working paper, the second in a series on the global illicit economy, focuses on the “dark pharma” trade in Central America, where no country...
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Extortion in Central America
In parts of Central America, extortion has become so endemic that it is now a feature of the daily socio-economic life of citizens, businesses and...
Case Study: Illegal Gold Mining in Peru
This case study presents the key findings of research conducted between June and August 2016 into the impacts of illicit gold mining in the Madre de...
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Urban security: when gangs and militias run the streets
Originally published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in October 2018. Life in Maré, a Brazilian slum controlled...
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...
Mexico election
Mexico’s presidential election opens a new chapter in democracy and security against a backdrop of pervasive violence. Mexicans have voted to...
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GIResilience Project – UN Solutions Summit 2018
Solutions Summit is an annual catalytic gathering at UN Headquarters in New York during UN General Assembly high-level week in September. This...
Las Buscadoras – the searchers – #GIResilience Project
This is story was made as part of the #GIresilience
Resilience Dialogues: bringing forward the local perspectives in OC
On August 7, 2017, The Global Initiative hosted its first Resilience Dialogues in Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa, Mexico. These dialogues were...
Resilience in Sinaloa: Community Responses to Organized Crime
The #GIResilience Project was designed to strengthen the resilient capabilities of the communities affected by organized crime. The ultimate aim of...
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GIN Interview: Jorge Chabat, Professor, International Studies at the Center for Research and Teaching on Economics (CIDE), Mexico City
Dr. Jorge Chabat is currently head of the Division of International Studies at the Center for Research and Teaching on Economics (CIDE) in Mexico...
Constructive Powers: the defining elements of transnational organized crime
Mark Shaw, Director, talks about Constructive Powers, the defining elements of transnational organized crime and how the role of private institutions...
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Dark Pharma: Counterfeit and Contraband Pharmaceuticals in Central America
This working paper, the second in a series on the global illicit economy, focuses on the “dark pharma” trade in Central America, where no country...
Life Under Gang Rule in El Salvador
Nearly 20,000 Salvadorans were killed from 2014 to 2017. That’s more violent deaths than in several countries that were at war during those years,...
Organized Crime and Central American Migration in Mexico
Abstract The following report was researched and written in response to a request by the Mexican Federal Police for an evaluation of the interactions...