...activities around the world? As Mexico's powerful criminal cartels expand their illicit operations across international borders, Senior Fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown testified before the U...
Over the last decade, aid donors spent approximately $60 million on 'narcotics control' projects in countries that retain the death penalty for drug-related offences, including Iran, which carried ...
Utilización de NNA en actividades ilícitas – Agentes de Cambio
La campaña comunitaria "Agentes de Cambio: saberes y resistencias frente a la trata de personas" busca reducir la vulnerabilidad que supone la trata de personas para las comunidades indígenas y afr...
Ending Sex Trafficking and Online Exploitation of Children | Join the Fight with IJM
Sex trafficking and online sexual exploitation of children are devastating crimes happening worldwide, and together we can stop them.
International Justice Mission (IJM) partners with governments ...
On 13 June, the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and the National Environmental Standards and Regulations Enforcement Agency (NESREA), acting on intelligence developed by the Wildlife Justice Commissi...
Russia's Illicit Arms Market and Implications for Europe
Russia's illegal gun market is expanding — and the worst may still be ahead. As the war in Ukraine grinds on, weapons prices in Russia have dropped by up to 75%, violent armed crime is spreading ac...
Russia's Illicit Arms: Soldiers Bring Weapons Home #shorts
Since the 'special military operation' began, Russia has seen a rise in armed crimes, particularly in regions bordering Ukraine and in impoverished areas. Illegally obtained weapons from the battle...
Slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But millions of men, women and children are trapped in modern-day slavery around the world. There are an estimated 50 million people held in slavery today.
W...
Between Moscow and Brussels: What Armenia's Election Means for Organised Crime
... more than domestic politics. The result carries consequences for the licit and illicit trade networks running through the South Caucasus — routes that have grown significantly since R...
Arms Smuggling Threat: How Criminal Groups Gain Power #shorts
Millions of unaccounted firearms threaten to fuel organized crime and homicide. As criminal groups grow stronger, the risk of these weapons flooding into gang hands is immense, with devastating con...
...nter can potentially manufacture a firearm? Ahead of the 2026 Meeting to Combat Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons, Izumi Nakamitsu and Rachel Bolton-King explore the growing threat ...
US Designates Brazilian Gangs as Terrorist Organizations #shorts
The US has labeled Brazil's largest criminal groups, PCC and Comando Vermelho, as Foreign Terrorist Organizations.
The designation aims to curb the group's influence in the US. However, the PCC a...
The Growing Threat of Arms Trafficking
Arms trafficking from the Ukraine conflict may not yet be a crisis — but the window to act is now. In this video, Tuesday Reitano, Managing Director at the Global Initiative against Transnational O...
En el marco de las sesiones del Parlamento Andino desarrolladas en Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, la Comisión Primera debatió la Propuesta de Actualización de la Decisión 552 - Plan Andino para ...
...nth Biennial Meeting on the implementation of the Programme of Action to Combat Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu highli...
They sold land, borrowed money, and trusted traffickers with one promise: Europe.
But for many Bangladeshi families, the journey through Libya ends in torture, disappearance, or death. From “body ...
Cannabis Smuggling from Thailand | Mekong Matters Podcast
...methods traffickers use, the links between Thailand's legal cannabis market and illicit exports, and what it will take — from both Thai and European governments — to address the proble...
Thailand's Cannabis Boom: Trafficking Surge Post-Decriminalization #shorts
Since 2022, Thailand's cannabis decriminalization has led to a surge in trafficking cases. Despite reclassification, a lack of a specific legal framework fuels a lucrative, growing industry, with s...
Weapon Diversion after the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
... this video, researcher and analyst Aleksandar Srbinovski gives insights to the illicit arms trade, rising black market prices, and the risks posed to Europe — drawing on fieldwork, po...