Despite economic advances over the past decade in the Latin America and the Caribbean, the incidence of violence continues to rise. Whether triggered by drug trafficking and organized crime or armed robberies...
Date: February 8, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON D.C., February 7, 2017 – As crime and violence continue to be a pervasive and costly problem in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), the region needs to increase prevention efforts based on...
Date: February 7, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
From comic book superheroes to their modern Hollywood personifications, the possibility of anticipating and preventing crime has been a constant in the popular imagination. In Minority Report,...
Date: July 30, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
The work program for the 2016-2019 period will also support inclusion and the capacity to cope with adverse natural events WASHINGTON, D.C., June 24th, 2015 – Build capacities to achieve safer communities,...
Date: June 24, 2015
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Nearly 50,000 African elephants were slaughtered for ivory in 2011. That means, that just in one day, more than 100 elephants die at the hands of poachers. That number will not go down without a concerted,...
Date: June 5, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
A desolate, poorly-lit street and an overturned dumpster. Open bags of trash and garbage scattered on the sidewalk. Would you walk alone there? Your sixth sense may advise against it. However, it is not...
Date: June 4, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Seen from above, the state of Amazonas presents a vast panorama of forests, with rivers everywhere. The fact is that this largest Brazilian state exceeds in area the entirety of the country’s southern...
Date: March 2, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
It is an ongoing discussion in the media and political campaigns in countries most affected by delinquency: is there a need to apply “heavy-handed” measures, to be harder on crime or even to consider the...
Date: February 16, 2015
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
They were born in three different countries -- Honduras, Guatemala and Mexico -- but their stories are so similar that it is hard to believe they did not grow up in the same neighborhood, or even the same...
Date: November 11, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
According to the UNODC’s (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) own statistics, the country registers the highest homicide rate in the world. But violence in Honduras is also experienced in people’s...
Date: October 28, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Reports in both the national and international media and anecdotal evidence indicate that the prevalence of crime and violence is high in Papua New Guinea (PNG). It has become an important obstacle to...
Date: August 15, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Now a US$ 213 billion industry, environment and natural resource crimes such as poaching, illegal logging and wildlife trafficking are growing every year and putting natural resources at risk. This is...
Date: July 17, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
In this World Cup, we have seen kicking, elbowing, head butts and even a bite. Neither have all celebrations of victories been peaceful: the first triumph of Colombia left people dead and injured in Bogota;...
Date: July 7, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, March 14, 2014 – More than 80,000 Jamaican citizens will benefit from improved services, basic infrastructure and targeted crime and violence interventions in 18 vulnerable inner-city communities...
Date: March 14, 2014
Type: Press Release
Language: English
From the formation of self-defense committees in Michoacán, Mexico and to the murder of a former Miss Venezuela, to gangs in Central America and the murder of police officers in Argentina at the hands...
Date: March 5, 2014
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Twenty years ago, Cali was on the frontline of one of the world’s most dangerous wars. A group of drug traffickers in that city clashed violently with their enemies in Medellin, led by Pablo Escobar. As...
Date: June 26, 2013
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Life is not easy on the streets of the so-called “risk zones” of San Salvador. For years, youth gangs, or maras, have controlled these areas to mug, threaten and extort locals, and as recruiting...
Date: May 23, 2013
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
From childhood nutrition programs and green, sustainable growth initiatives, to crime prevention and anti-corruption efforts, Central America is working hard to leave behind years of conflict to glimpse...
Date: October 12, 2012
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
In South Africa, a full-fledged crisis is underway: This year alone, poachers are going to shoot some 600 rhinoceroses and saw off their horns. Through organized criminal networks, they will smuggle the...
Date: August 30, 2012
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
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