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Download Sep/Oct 2024

• AI in Border Management: Implications and Future Challenges.
• Swedish Kid Soldiers
• AI-powered mobile autonomous surveillance systems for more efficient border security
• Migrant Smuggling in Southeast Asia
• Open-Source Intelligence: Enhancing Abilities in the “Borderless” Opioid Epidemic Battle
• ODYSSEUS Project – Innovative Solutions to Enhance the Security of EU Borders
• Cross-Border Smuggling And Its Threat To Nigeria’s Economy
• Strengthening Port Security with RF Technology
• Digital travel credentials are on the rise – but how to secure identity data?
• 2025 World Border Security Congress
• Agency News and Agency Reports
• Webinar Library
• Industry News

Download Jul/Aug 2024

• DHS Shows Results in the Fight to Cripple Cartels and Stop Fentanyl from Entering the U.S.
• The Question of Who You Are
• Human Presence Detection Systems
• Economic Velocity: The Tech Frontier of Border Operations
• Enhancing Africa’s Borders: Making a case for API-PNR on the Continent
• Securing Nigeria’s Borders Against Drug and Human Trafficking: A Multifaceted Approach
• 2025 World Border Security Congress
• Agency Reports and News
• Webinars and Videos
• Industry news

Download May/June 2024

• World Migration Report 2024
• Navigating the Complexities of Maritime Border Security Challenges
• Balancing Border Security: Conventional Methods and Contemporary Means
• Blind mules
• Innovation Solutions to Filling-in the Ships, Ports and Maritime Infrastructures Underwater Security Capability Gaps: ‘Undersec’ EU Funded Project
• Our identity is a legal key that opens doors
• Real-Time I/Q Data Capture for Enhanced Intelligence
• 2024 World Border Security Congress Review
• Agency Reports and News
• Webinars and Videos
• Industry news

Download Mar/Apr 2024

• Border Security – Visions of the Future
• Digital Travel Credentials – the future of international travel
• Mongolia launches their Passenger Information Unit with support of UN Countering Terrorist Travel Programme
• EU Drug Markets Analysis 2024 Key insights for policy and practice
• Tackling the Complex Challenges of Land and Sea Borders
• Enhancing Border Security Through Biometric Identification and Humanitarian Principles
• Mastering API-PNR Data completeness: A Keystone for Effective Passenger Information Units
• Strategic Approaches to Border Security and Management in the Context of Combating Terrorism and Preventing Transnational Threats
• World Border Security Congress Preview
• Agency Reports and News
• Webinars and Videos
• Industry news

Download Jan/Feb 2024

• The strategic importance of integrated border management in North Africa
• Strengthening Europe’s internal security with the EES and ETIAS
• Safeguarding North Africa : A Holistic Approach to Combatting Synthetic Drug Menace
• Beyond Borders: Revolutionising Cross-Border Security with Solar-Powered Surveillance
• Enhancing Maritime Capacity – a training year in Puntland
• The unique screening solutions helping solve the unique challenges in the fight against illegal drug trafficking
• AI – It’s Probably Not What You Think
• Cross Border Crime in West Africa. Why ECOWAS Chairman Must Act Fast
• World Border Security Congress
• Agency Reports and News
• Webinars and Videos
• Industry news

Download Nov/Dec 2023

• Frontex Risk Analysis 2023/2024 discusses challenges at EU external borders – Part 2
• Maritime Surveillance Systems: Navigating Collaboration and Rivalry in the Southern Med
• Loverboys
• US DHS Doubles Down CBP Efforts to Continue to Combat Fentanyl and Synthetic Drugs
• Impact of GCC-Pakistan Free Trade Agreement on Border Control and Drug Smuggling
• Real-time Border Crossing with Iris Recognition
• Cattle Rustling and the Challenge of Border Insecurity
• EIBM’s Grand Vision & motivation for CONNECTOR project
• World Border Security Congress
• Agency Reports and News
• Webinars and Videos
• Industry news

Download Sep/Oct 2023

• Frontex Risk Analysis 2023/2024 discusses challenges at EU external borders
• Ports and Narco-Terorrism
• The Future of Seamless Travel: How Biometrics are Revolutionising the Passenger Experience
• Oman hosts the 30th meeting in Muscat for border and coast guard officials in the Gulf Cooperation Council
• The Future of Digital Travel Credentials
• New identification systems help meet today’s border challenges, lay the groundwork for future innovation
• Chronicling ECOWAS Peace Journey
• World Border Security Congress
• Agency Reports and News
• Webinars and Videos
• Industry news

• Trade in Human Beings Prevention – Quo vadis?
• Transmission of Advance Passenger Information (API) and Passenger Name Record (PNR) data
• Measures Taken at Turkey’s Land Borders
• Trigger to reflection
• Standardisation PEERS out for practicism – a Horizon Europe Project
• Countering Human Trafficking in the Southern Mediterranean
• New identification systems help meet today’s border challenges, lay the groundwork for future innovation
• Demarcation of State Boundaries As A Significant Element Of Improving Border Security
• World Border Security Congress
• Agency Reports and News
• Webinars and Videos
• Industry news

• Maritime Domain Awareness Technology: a Game-changer to Strengthening Maritime Border Management
• Ukraine – Weapons and when the war is over!
• Who shoulders the migrants, and who the refugees?
• New Study: Conservation Experts Warn of Current Dangers Posed by the Legal Wildlife Trade
• Future travel
• Passenger Targeting Trainings
• Portholes: Exploring the Maritime Balkan Routes
• World Border Security Congress Review
• Agency Reports and News
• Webinars and Videos
• Industry news

• Pushbacks between illegality and necessity
• Conclusions from the Research Monitoring Report, Enabling Seamless Travel to the European Unions
• Port security monitoring as a border crossing point in the Republic of Albania
• Some border crossing points are more interesting than others?
• Canada launches international public-private partnership targeting illegal wildlife trade: Project Anton
• X-ray diffraction technology – the next frontier in automatic threat detection
• Transforming passenger data into actionable intelligence at the border
• World Border Security Congress Preview
• Agency Reports and News
• Webinars and Videos
• Industry news

• Current Border Security-Related Activities in South East Europe
• European research about using Artificial Intelligence and Interoperability for Solving Challenges of OSINT and Cross-Border Investigations
• Virtual Borders – Are they really a thing!
• Thousands of Migrants in the Horn of Africa Assisted Through the EU-IOM Joint Initiative – Five Years On
• An extract from the UNODC – Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2022
• Amotekun and Nigeria Border Security
• EU’s external borders in 2022: Number of irregular border crossings highest since 2016
• World Border Security Congress Preview
• Agency Reports and News
• Webinars and Videos
• Industry news

• High-level architectures of multilateral information-sharing within the maritime domain in Europe
• The ICAO Digital Travel Authorization: Standardizing the electronic visa
• Shipping Containers – That Marvel of Modern Logistics, for Good and for Bad!
• The Magic 8 Ball
• Next Generation Technology Implementation Essential for Future Border Security Success
• Nearly half of world’s terror victims are African, with organised crime increasingly entrenched
• Kogi State & Nigeria Border Security
• World Border Security Congress Preview
• Agency Reports and News
• Webinars and Videos
• Industry news

• Conflict in Ukraine: Key Evidence on Risks Trafficking in Person and Smuggling of Migrants
• Technology: Mobile Port Security Systems
• The Role of Electronic Travel Authorizations
• What is the OSCE Self-Assessment Tool and How Can it be Used?
• Tackling the illegal narcotics trade
• Man or morph? How morphing attack detection helps border control against identity fraud
• Border Insecurity in Nigeria: A Cry for Help?
• World Border Security Congress Preview
• Agency Reports and News
• Webinars and Videos
• Industry news

• UNODC World Drug Report 2022 highlights
• Wildlife Trafficking – A monumental task where networks are key
• Borders and cyber-threats: how safe are we?
• Application of API and PNR security systems by using travel information
• Travel the world contactless with seamless travel
• The Future of Drones – Beyond Visual Line of Sight
• Together for a Sustainable Eco-future
• Border Security; Taking a Bold Step in Africa
• World Border Security Congress
• Agency Reports and News
• Webinars and Videos
• Industry news

• Revisiting strategic assumptions at the border
• Securing the Border: Air Domain
• e-Gates for vehicles – FastPASS HdF
• Maritime Passenger Targeting
• Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risks Arising from Migrant Smuggling
• Before Using the Best Tool & Technologies
• World Border Security Congress Preview
• Agency Reports and News
• Webinars and Videos
• Industry news

• The Illegal Wildlife Trade – A Maritime Problem?
• Innovative Solutions to Filling-in the Ships’ Security Capability Gaps: EU funded project ISOLA
• Combating Wildlife Trafficking – scaling up international efforts
• 20 Years in the Making: Border Security Cooperation in the Western Balkans
• Border Insecurity and the Urgency of Data Collection
• World Border Security Congress Preview
• Agency Reports and News
• Webinars and Videos
• Industry news

• Mobile Technology for Land Border Crossings?
• Border Management in Transformation
• 2022 World Migration Report Highlights Complex Issues Driving Migration
• ICMPD Migration Outlook 2022: Twelve migration issues to look out for in 2022
• Border Management and Human Rights
• World Border Security Congress
• Agency Reports and News
• Webinars and Videos
• Industry news

• COVID-19 secure borders: Using technology to safely reopen travel to the Seychelles islands
• Addressing the Humanitarian side of Irregular Migration
• Central Asia, beyond scratching the surface
• Cybersecurity considerations for AI-based systems in border management
• From Ports to Airports: Efforts Towards Aviation Security in Iraq
• Global Peace Day 2021 & Border Security
• World Border Security Congress
• Agency Reports and News
• Webinars and Videos
• Industry news

• Border Surveillance and AI-based Systems
• Afghanistan 2021. New Challenges for Cultural Heritage and Peace in the Wider Area
• Future Ready: beyond the traditional border specific lens
• Rapid DNA: a powerful new tool in the fight against human trafficking
• New EES Technologies at Bulgaria´s Aviation Hubs
• Afghanistan, President Bidden and the urgency of African Example
• Agency Reports and News
• Upcoming Webinars
• 2021 World Border Security Congress
• Webinars and Videos
• Industry news

• Threats and Challenges for Maritime Borders
• DHS S&T Evaluating Border Security Technologies in the Plains (and Skies) of North Dakota
• Freeports: Now is the opportunity to secure the future
• Migration in the Greater Mediterranean Region
• Agency Reports and News
• Upcoming Webinars
• 2021 World Border Security Congress
• Webinars and Videos
• Industry news

• Building Better Borders in Southeast Asia
• An Unholy Alliance: Links between extremism and illicit trade in East Africa
• Fighting trafficking in human beings
• Africa Border Security and Sustainable Development Goal
• Health Pass solutions – Helping governments resume international travel
• Considering Aerostat Operations
• 2021 World Border Security Congress
• Agency News
• Industry News
• Webinars and Videos

• Human security challenges at the tri-border Liptako-Gurma area in the Sahel
• On the borders of the Maghreb: Focus on Algeria
• Nigeria’s border closures haven’t served their purpose
• Covid-19 and 2021 Global Border Security Challenges
• FREEPORTS: The challenge of cyber security
• 2021 World Border Security Congress
• Agency News
• Industry News
• Webinars and Videos

• Strengthening Trust and Cooperation at the Eastern Border of the EU. Current and Future trends in EU Border Management
• Cross Border Crimes in Africa and the Urgency of Strong Institutions
• Agency Reports
• MS-13’s highest-ranking leaders charged with terrorism offenses in US
• Agency News
• Beyond Borders – A Journey along six world borders
• Wildlife crime: closing ranks on serious crime in the illegal animal trade
• 2021 World Border Security Congress
• Webinars Library
• Industry News

• Europe and the migration-crime-terrorism nexus
• SAHEL Region: Border Security And African Underdevelopment
• Lessons from COVID-19 in responding to trafficking in persons in times of crisis
• South East Asia Tackle Drug and Wildlife Trafficking During Pandemic
• Aerostats That Deliver Elevated Awareness in Global Geo-Conflict Zones
• US Littoral Border protected with SlingShot – Sponsored Feature
• 2021 World Border Security Congress
• Webinars Library
• Agency News
• Industry news

• Combatting the Illegal Wildlife Trade
• Wildlife Trafficking in Trinidad And Tobago
• Cannabis trafficking and endangered-tortoise trade drive corruption in Madagascar
• South Africa’s Border Management Authority Dream Could be a Nightmare
• Fighting drug trafficking in the Golden Triangle
• Kiosk systems – the key to border control?
• Border Security: A Quarantined Pandemic
• Webinars Library

• Money Laundering and the Illegal Wildlife Trade
• UNODC World Drug Report 2020
• UN CTED Trends Alert Update
• UN Global Study on Firearms TraffickinG
• Big data, migration and human mobility
• Impact of Covid-19 on the ECOWAS Free Movement Protocol and the Regional Integration Agenda
• Illegal Small-Arms Trade, Armed Violence, and Human Security at the land Border in Papua, Indonesia
• Borders of the future – is data sharing the answer?

• Maritime Security in the Gulf of Guinea and the Swaims Project
• COVID-19 and the drug supply chain: from production and trafficking to use
• The Papua-Papua New Guinea Border Amid the Spread of the Covid-19 Virus
• Smarter Borders – technology trends in a time of crisis
• Agency News
• World Border Security Congress
• Industry News

• Can the use of passenger data help contain, track, or manage the spread of infectious diseases?
• The Malpensa e-Gates Project
• In a globalised era, how can defence companies protect people’s ways of life?
• Cultural Heritage: A New Make-over for an Old Threat to Law Enforcement
• Agency News
• World Border Security Congress – Event Preview
• Industry News

• Asylum Seekers Extorted – Men Sentenced for Scheme Targeting New Immigrants
• DHS Strategy to Combat Human Trafficking, The Importation of Goods Produced with Forced Labour, and Child Sexual Exploitation
• Schengen Entry/Exit System Means More Secure Borders
• Drivers of Change in Maritime – Ports and Cyber Security
• Agency News
• World Border Security Congress – Event Preview
• Industry News

• World Migration Report 2020 Launched
• Lessons from Algeria on foreign terrorist fighters
• Navigating borderlands in the Sahel Border security governance and mixed migration in Liptako-Gourma
• Passive Terahertz Technology Enables International Customs Agencies to Fill a Critical Gap in Border Security
• Agency News
• World Border Security Congress
• Industry News

• UNODC opens the first specialized Forensics Laboratory in Laos for analysing digital evidence
• Migrants and Their Vulnerability to Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery and Forced Labour
• Analysing Integrated Check Post in the India’s border with Bangladesh
• Protecting Europe’s Borders with second generation Motion Detection Technology
• Agency News
• World Border Security Congress
• Industry News

• Parallel investigations bring down sexual exploitation network
• Organized crime hit hard by joint INTERPOL-WCO global enforcement operation
• Who gets to go home? The policies facing IS women and children
• Border Surveillance Technology over Tumult
• Agency News
• World Border Security Congress
• Industry News

• Blitz on reptile smuggling nets great results
• Brexit will push UK borders to the brink… unless we get smarter with data
• Border Threat Detection – The Path to Artificial Intelligence
• South Asia: Case of Least Connected Borders
• Agency News
• World Border Security Congress
• Industry News

• Frontex Risk Analysis Report
• CBP Launches COAC Northern Triangle Working Group
• India Pakistan Borders: Cartography without Geographical Frontiers
• Developing and delivering solutions for modernized border management
• An Interview with Mark Alexander
• Agency News
• World Border Security Congress
• Industry News

• WCO publishes new tool in prevention of illicit trafficking of cultural heritage
• Behavioural Detection – What, How and Whys
• Agency Reports
• Increasing the Collection and Use of Passenger Data and Biometrics
• Operation Plan de Choque makes it pay
• Agency News
• World Border Security Congress
• Industry News