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By Dev Kar, Sarah Freitas
Dec-17-2012 | Report
Crime, corruption, and tax evasion cost the developing world $858.8 billion in 2010, just below the all-time high of $871.3 billion set in 2008... Read More »
By CIP
Jun-04-2012 | Report
Read about the latest research and projects undertaken by CIP's expert staff as they seek to apply pressure to ensure that politicians' promises become actual policy.... Read More »
By Abigail Poe, Adam Isacson, Yamile Salinas, Nancy Sánchez
Feb-01-2012 | Report
During 2011, researchers from CIP, WOLA, INDEPAZ and MINGA carried out a joint project to monitor the Colombian Government's National Territorial Consolidation Plan (PNCT). This new publication lays out our organizations' principal findings, concerns and recommendations following our research visits.... Read More »
By Laura Carlsen
Nov-13-2012 | Article
The president will need to recast a foreign policy that has been weak or downright contradictory in standing up for the principles he himself has espoused... Read More »
By Abigail Poe, Gimena Sanches-Garzoli, Lisa Haugaard, Viviana Krsticvic
May-23-2011 | Letter
The Santos Administration must not only embrace the language of human rights, but also take effective action to guarantee the legitimate work of human rights defenders, essential for freedom of expression and a thriving democratic society... Read More »
By Laura Carlsen
Apr-27-2011 | Speech
The drug war has become the Pentagon's main way of occupying and controling Latin America, and to combat this ... Read More »
Nov-01-12 | Washington Office on Latin America 1666 Connecticut Ave NW Suite 400 Washington, DC 20009
On October 18, historic peace talks between the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the Colombian government—the first formal negotiations in a decade—began in Oslo, Norway... Read More »
Sep-28-12 | Root Room Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Join the sponsors of the Just the Facts database in a day-long conference to discuss security trends in the Americas... Read More »
Dec-20-11 | Washington Office on Latin America, 1666 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 400, Washington D.C. 20036
Join us for a powerful event honoring Colombia's victims and human rights defenders... Read More »
Laura Carlsen quoted
In Latin America the United States needs to be far more flexible and less inclined to favour the demands of transnational organizations...Read More »
Raymond Baker quoted
The growing willingness to provide secrecy services is leading to a spike in illegal money flows...Read More »
Illicit financial outflows cost developing world $859 billion in 2010, rebounding rapidly from financial crisis. Nearly $6 trillion stolen from poor countries in decade between 2001 and 2010...Read More »
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