Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

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Reducing the global harms caused by organized crime and simultaneously building resilience to it.

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Switzerland, Geneva

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51-200

Founded date

2013

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Aug 25, 2026	More than 50 kidnapped after violent gang attack in Haiti leaves 47 dead	Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By PIERRE-RICHARD LUXAMA, DÁNICA COTO and EVENS SANON PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — At least 47 people were killed and more than 50 others kidnapped when armed men attacked a once-peaceful community...
Aug 20, 2026	Somali pirate menace returns as U.S.-Iran war stokes regional chaos and saps enforcement resources	A cargo vessel, Lutuf, was seized off the coast of Somalia on Aug. 17, while tanker MT Asana was hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden a month ago. Somali piracy activity has surged after years of relative decline, pressuring a region mar...
Aug 7, 2026	Trump Raised Scam Compounds With Xi, Senate Told: China Only Acts for Its Own Victims	By Clayton Lewis Published: Aug 07 2026, 8:37 AM EDT Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard
May 7, 2026	Report: Facebook found to be ‘central public infrastructure’ for criminals selling endangered wild animals	Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Social media giant Facebook has become the main tool for criminals selling endangered wild animals online, a new report claims. “The world is facing an unprecedented biodiversity crisis in which sp...
Jan 6, 2026	Iran unrest deepens as U.S. attack in Venezuela sharpens Trump intervention threat	Monday - Friday: 12:00 - 13:00 SIN/HK \| 0600 - 07:00 CET The widespread unrest, fueled by a long-running economic crisis in Iran, killed at least 29 people, and more than 1,200 people have been arrested. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian ...
Jun 25, 2024	LockBit holds 33TB of stolen data and its ransom deadline is up: What’s next and is it real or hoax?	Don’t miss OpenAI, Chevron, Nvidia, Kaiser Permanente, and Capital One leaders only at VentureBeat Transform 2024. Gain essential insights about GenAI and expand your network at this exclusive three day event. Learn More The notorious — and...
Feb 16, 2024	Here’s how South Africans are beefing up their security as crime soars	Police Minister Bheki Cele says between 1 October and 31 December 2023, a total of 7,710 people were murdered – a 2.1% increase from the same period in 2022. Image: SABC News As violent crime continues to increase on a daily basis in South ...
Nov 22, 2023	New Policy Paper Provides Roadmap to Tackle Organized Crime in the Amazon	Lima, Peru – A new policy paper by Amazon Underworld, Amazon Watch, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, and InfoAmazonia details a roadmap for governments across the region to tackle the ruthless expansion of crime ...
Jan 24, 2023	Abalone farm gives hope to Western Cape community	General worker Roderick Coetzee places the abalone into tubs to be weighed and graded. Nearly all the abalone grown on the farm is exported to Hong Kong, China. Image: GroundUp Article originally published on GroundUp by Liezl Human Abalone...
Jul 21, 2022	Mass shootings in South Africa: how to stop the cycle of reprisals	Mass shootings in South Africa: how to stop the cycle of reprisals: Image: Adobe stock In just two days in early July, 25 people were shot dead in four separate incidents at taverns across South Africa. In one of these shootings, in Soweto,...
Mar 2, 2022	EU considers sending border agency to help patrol Senegal’s waters	The European Commission is negotiating with Senegal on a proposal to deploy the European Union border agency, Frontex, in the West African country’s territorial waters to guard against illegal fishing and migrant smuggling. Non-governmental...
Feb 16, 2022	SPRFMO risks “non-cooperative” consideration in fight against IUU, CALAMASUR warns	The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization (SPRFMO) is running the risk of being considered non-cooperative in the fight against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing due to its “lack of strong, consistent bin...
Aug 20, 2021	What’s at Stake in Libya’s Peace Process?	Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on Order From Chaos. A decade after the overthrow of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi, Libya is set to hold elections this December to produce a unified government. As the date approaches, th...
Jul 28, 2021	Somalia plans to streamline fishing permits to fight IUU	Somalia, plagued with persistent incidents of piracy and rampant illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, is aiming to tighten its fishing licensing regime in order to end loopholes that result in illegal activity. Amid claims of...
Jun 16, 2021	Plant-Based Meth From Afghanistan Is Turning Up All Over the World	In the run-down township of Khayelitsha in Cape Town, South Africa a group of men are sitting in a living room as one of them holds a small baggy of white, crystalline powder to the computer screen on a WhatsApp video link. “We’ve been smok...
Jun 2, 2021	Oceana denounces hundreds of foreign vessels “pillaging” Argentina’s coast	Foreign fishing fleets, mostly Chinese, are “pillaging” the waters off the coast of Argentina and are disappearing from public tracking systems, likely hiding illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing activity, according to the lat...
May 20, 2021	Why Organized Illicit Finance Demands An Organized Global Response	Illicit finance is a major threat to the security and prosperity of all nations. It not only enables criminals to profit from the most heinous crimes, but also finances terrorist atrocities. It causes an immense financial and human cost to ...
Apr 1, 2021	Leaked US intelligence document calls for support of South American countries' fight against Chinese IUU	A leaked document originating from the Office of Intelligence and Analysis – part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security – has recommended the creation of a multilateral coalition with South American nations led by the U.S. to challeng...
Jan 5, 2021	Four South American countries prepare to challenge Chinese fishing abuses at COMM9	A fleet of more than 300 mostly Chinese-flagged fishing ships that caused consternation among the governments of Ecuador and Peru this summer when it was spotted fishing around their respective exclusive economic zones, has continued to fis...
Apr 3, 2020	What Coronavirus Means for Online Fraud, Forced Sex, Drug Smuggling and Wildlife Trafficking	Editor’s Note: This piece originally appeared in Order From Chaos. Possibly emerging as a result of wildlife trafficking and the consumption of wild animal meat, COVID-19 is influencing crime and illicit economies around the world. Some of ...
Dec 11, 2015	How Tech Is Helping Europe’s Refugees	Mapping created by Arriving in Berlin Recently it’s become rare to turn on the television or click on a news website and not see articles or news stories about refugees and asylum seekers. In past months, people fleeing the violence of Syri...
Nov 26, 2014	Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #44: An Interview with Sal Stolfo	Our guest for episode 44 of the Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast is Sal Stolfo, Professor at Columbia University’s Computer Science Department and CEO of Allure Software. Stolfo brings an attacker’s sensibility to network security approaches usuall...
	Героин, возможно, главный экспортный товар Мозамбика. Этому помогли мессенджеры	Героин, возможно, главный экспортный товар Мозамбика. Этому помогли мессенджеры 07 Июля, 2018, 16:00 Михаил Сапитон 3383 Издание Quartz описало главный драйвер теневой экономики Мозамбика — государства на юго-востоке Африки, которое так и н...
	‘Anti-China’: The Quad launches maritime surveillance plan	Pledging to provide “tangible benefits” for nations in the Indo-Pacific region, the leaders of the Quad have launched a maritime surveillance plan that analysts say is its most significant move so far to counter China. The Quad – an informa...
	ECOWAS intervenes in Guinea-Bissau	Shoshana Kedem February 4th 2022 • Guinea-Bissau, West Africa • Technology & Information The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed to send a stabilisation force to Guinea Bissau on Thursday following a coup attempt i...
	SoftBank Refutes Kickback Allegations On Nikesh Arora, Alok Sama	SoftBank cannot seem to catch a break. The Japanese investment firm has reportedly refuted the allegations of kickbacks made against former President Nikesh Arora and the current President and CFO Alok Sama, as reported by Wall Street Journ...

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When was Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime founded?

Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime was founded in 2013.

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Parsers VC has collected 27 articles mentioning Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, among them “More than 50 kidnapped after violent gang attack in Haiti leaves 47 dead” (Aug 25, 2026) and “Somali pirate menace returns as U.S.-Iran war stokes regional chaos and saps enforcement resources” (Aug 20, 2026).

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Yes, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Sep 3, 2026.