Borders of the future – is data sharing the answer?
Richard Gutsell, Client Director – Borders, Identity and the Digital Economy at Atkins With the impact of COVID-19 on cross
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Illegal Small-Arms Trade, Armed Violence, and Human Security at the land Border in Papua, Indonesia
By Melyana R Pugu – Border Researcher and senior Lecturer from International Relations Department of Cenderawasih University Papua Indonesia The
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Impact of Covid-19 on the ECOWAS Free Movement Protocol and the Regional Integration Agenda
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the International Centre for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) recently organized a
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Big data, migration and human mobility
IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) and the European Commission Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography (KCMD) launched the
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UN Global Study on Firearms Trafficking: A global phenomenon
Firearms trafficking is a global phenomenon with strong variations between countries UNODC has carried out its most comprehensive collection of
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UN CTED Trends Alert Update – Extreme Right Wing Terrorism
In this Update to the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) ‘Trends Alert’ Member States concerned by the growing and increasingly
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Operation Opson IX Takes 320 Tonnes of Dangerous Dairy Products Off Market
Europol and INTERPOL coordinated operation OPSON 2020 which targeted trafficking of counterfeit and substandard food and beverages. The ninth operation
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UNODC World Drug Report 2020: Global drug use rising, while COVID-19 has far reaching impact on global drug markets
Around 269 million people used drugs worldwide in 2018, which is 30 per cent more than in 2009, while over
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Six fugitives arrested in I-CAN global anti-mafia operation
Coordination through the INTERPOL Cooperation Against ‘Ndrangheta (I-CAN) project – an INTERPOL and Italian initiative – has seen law enforcement
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Money Laundering and the Illegal Wildlife Trade
Report by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global money laundering and terrorist financing watchdog, an inter-governmental body setting
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Food fraud in times of COVID-19
More than USD 40 million worth of potentially dangerous fake food and drink was seized in the latest Operation Opson,
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ABF stub out Chinese cigarette smuggling operation
A 52 year-old Chinese national appeared in the Perth Magistrates court today charged over his alleged role in an elaborate
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CBP Field Operations Seizes over Three Tons of Marijuana Worth $1.5 Million
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations (OFO) at the Pharr International Bridge cargo facility discovered 7,645 pounds
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CBP Inter-agency Efforts Lead to 43 Migrant Apprehensions
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations (AMO) agents, along with their partners, worked two early morning migrant
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Laredo Sector Border Patrol Retrieves Vehicle with Narcotics from River
U.S. Border Patrol agents assigned to the Laredo North Station averted a narcotics smuggling attempt in Laredo. The incident occurred
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Your latest issue of Border Security Report has arrived
You can download your copy of the July/August issue of Border Security Report at www.border-security-report.com/BSR. In this issue: Money Laundering
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Amid COVID-19 Pandemic, IOM Facilitates Return of 84 Migrants from Algeria to Mali
84 Malian nationals – 73 men, 7 women, 2 boys and 2 girls – made it home from Algeria, thanks to the International Organization
Read moreRio Grande Valley Agents Seize More than $1M in Drugs
Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol agents foiled five separate drug smuggling attempts that led to the seizure of more than
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