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Arms trafficking and organized crime


Arms trafficking and organized crime | Global Initiative

The illicit firearms trade is a threat to sustainable development, peace and security. Its proliferation not only escalates conflict but also facilitates ...

ARMS TRAFFICKING

ARMS TRAFFICKING AND ORGANIZED CRIME • GLOBAL TRADE, LOCAL IMPACTS. SUMMARY. The illicit firearms trade is a threat to sustainable development ...

Weapons Trafficking - Homeland Security

HSI's Response. HSI special agents investigate people and criminal organizations that illegally finance, procure, broker, transport and ...

Arms trafficking score - The Organized Crime Index

Based on the 2019 ENACT Organised Crime Index for Africa, the Global Organized Crime Index is a key flagship project of the Global Initiative Against ...

Firearms trafficking - Interpol

Small arms and light weapons are easy for criminals to conceal and transport, so trafficking in firearms is a lucrative business which, in turn, fuels and funds ...

Larger scale firearms trafficking activities

These stocks had been stolen, misappropriated and resold to terrorists, warlords, insurgency groups and organized criminals such as the Revolutionary United ...

Arms trafficking - Wikipedia

Arms trafficking or gunrunning is the illicit trade of contraband small arms, explosives, and ammunition, which constitutes part of a broad range of illegal ...

Illicit firearms trafficking - Europol - European Union

The relatively high risks associated with weapons trafficking act as a disincentive for organised criminal groups. However, where demand exists, criminals will ...

Terrorism arms crime nexus - the United Nations

... organized crime, including trafficking of small arms and light weapons (SALW), as a serious threat to peace, security and an obstacle to sustainable development

Arms Trafficking | The Oxford Handbook of Organized Crime

Arms trafficking is a complex multifaceted crime, and it can involve numerous discrete crimes over and above breaking arms sanctions, including, but not limited ...

Countries with the Highest Arms trafficking rate in the World

Based on the 2019 ENACT Organised Crime Index for Africa, the Global Organized Crime Index is a key flagship project of the Global Initiative Against ...

Project Disrupt - Interpol

Firearms trafficking enables and aggravates organized crime activities, armed conflict and terrorism, endangering the safety of citizens and affecting the well- ...

Addressing the Linkages Between Illicit Arms, Organized Crime and ...

... arms and a potentially lucrative income source for organized arms trafficking networks. To date, there has been limited research examining the.

Arms trafficking and smuggling in North Africa and the Sahel

The dynamics of this criminal market involve the movement of weapons and ammunition across borders, whether through legal or illegal means, with ...

Anti-Firearms Trafficking Campaign - ATF

The United States continues to battle the ongoing problem of firearms smuggling at the northern and southern borders. Firearms trafficking occurs when ...

protocol against the illicit manufacturing of

customarily used by organized criminal groups engaged in illicit trafficking in firearms, their parts and components and ammunition; and. (d) Legislative ...

Eurostat: Trafficking of Arms - International Monetary Fund (IMF)

A key feature of illicit firearms trafficking is that it is mainly caused by diversions from the legal firearms trade and from conflict-related stockpiles. The ...

U.S.-Caribbean Cooperation to Stop Firearms Trafficking

... organized crime. Caribbean Crime Gun Intelligence Unit (CCGIU):. In November 2022, the CARICOM Implementation Agency for Crime and Security ...

Trafficking in firearms - Migration and Home Affairs - European Union

To intimidate and coerce their victims, organised crime groups typically use firearms. Firearms facilitate the trade in illegal drugs and trafficking in human ...

Investigating Arms Trafficking

The global weapons market interlocks trade-based and financial exchanges within the same business models that drive transnational organized ...