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Tainted timber: Illegal logging, South East Asia

...The recent murders of environmental defenders in Cambodia highlight how international interventions are failing the front-line actors who risk their lives protecting forests from illicit logging in So...

Posted on 18 Apr 2018

Author(s): Marcena Hunter

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Bente Angell-Hansen

...Bente Angell-Hansen is a Norwegian former diplomat and the former Co-Chair of the Open-Ended Working Group on Pandemic Influenza Preparedness (PIP-OEWG) of the World Health Organization. In this role,...

Posted on 18 Apr 2018

UN-TOC Watch

Video: Organized Crime as a threat to sustainable development

...Organized Crime as a threat to sustainable development...

Posted on 17 Apr 2018

Development Dialogue

Responding to organised crime and illicit trade in old and new domains

Organized crime and illicit trade

...Unlike much of the existing literature on organised crime, this book is less focused on the problem per se as it is on understanding its implications. The latter, especially in fragile and conflict re...

Posted on 16 Apr 2018

Author(s): Virginia Comolli, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Karl Lallerstedt, Tuesday Reitano

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

Time to resize expectations of UNTOC

...Arguably, the expectation for UNTOC to deliver in isolation has been too high. It should be re-evaluated as a framework for states parties to apply it appropriately and consider legal interventions no...

Posted on 13 Apr 2018

Author(s): Stefano Betti

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Mexico Peace Index 2018: Mapping the evolution of peace and its drivers

...This report contains a comprehensive measure of peacefulness in Mexico from 2003 - 2017. "Peace in Mexico has declined for a second year in a row, as indicated by the 2018 Mexico Peace Index. Peace ...

Posted on 11 Apr 2018

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Maria Anjos Sapina

Senior Executive in the conduct of Humanitarian Operations and Policy

...Maria Anjos Sapina, a double Swiss and Portuguese national, joined the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in November 1990, serving the institution for 27 years in several senior executiv...

Posted on 10 Apr 2018

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Axel Chaptal

Director of Finance, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

...After graduating from ESSEC Business School in France, Axel continued his career in the hospitality industry within the luxury segment. Specialized in the rooms department, he was promoted over the pa...

Posted on 09 Apr 2018

Gold Watch

Follow the money: Zimbabwe

...This report provides a rapid assessment of the gold supply chains, financial flows, and power dynamics of the Zimbabwe ASGM sector and related gold trade, and a baseline for this type of analysis. Res...

Posted on 05 Apr 2018

Author(s): Marcena Hunter

UN - Security and Rights, UN-TOC Watch

Sustaining peace in the city: An alternative approach

...The consequences of organized crime and violence in cities affect millions worldwide. Rankings of urban crime from Mexican and Brazilian think tanks show that many of the most violent cities in the wo...

Posted on 05 Apr 2018

Author(s): Private: Achim Wennmann

19 Apr

RESPECT

Illegal Fishing, Human Trafficking, and Wildlife Trafficking: Ecological Crises and Security

...Wildlife trafficking is among the largest global crimes, along with drugs, counterfeiting, and human trafficking according to TRAFFICand the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). It is also a multi-billion dol...

Posted on 03 Apr 2018

Crime & Conflict, Protecting Politics, Sanctions and organized crime, WEA-Obs

Guinea-Bissau illegal drug economy

...Guinea-Bissau has long been labelled a narco-state. Today it is likely that the West African country continues to be a major hub for cocaine. The losers in the drug deals are its citizens. ...

Posted on 27 Mar 2018

Author(s): Lorraine Mallinder

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