The President of the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, Mr. Jean François Thony, signed a cooperation agreement with the President of the Naif Arab University of Security Studies (NAUSS), H.E. Dr. Abdulmajeed bin Abdullah Albanyan, on July 5, 2021 in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia). In his speech, President Thony stressed that the
On Monday June 28th, the Siracusa International Institute will host an online webinar on “Illicit Flows in the Mediterranean: Vulnerabilities, Asymmetries and the Limits of Criminal Justice Responses” which will take place virtually on Zoom on Monday morning at 10:00-12:15 CET time. The webinar is organised within the project “Displacement and Convergence of Illicit Flows” (FLOWS), which
PhD candidates from universities around the world are invited to participate in the first annual doctoral seminar of the Siracusa International Institute for Criminal Justice and Human Rights. The seminar is planned to take place over three days, 20, 21, 22 October 2021. The seminar will provide an opportunity to doctoral researchers for networking with
On May 6 and 7, 2021, Mr. Jean-François Thony, President of the Siracusa International Institute is participating in the online conference “Modernising EU justice system by boosting training of justice professionals”. The initiative is co-organized by the Portuguese Council Presidency and the European Commission. The conference is mainly aimed at gathering the main stakeholders involved
The Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime will organize on May 6 at 2PM CET a webinar on “Tackling Organized Corruption and Monitoring Governmental Anti-Corruption Pledges in the Western Balkans“. The event will showcase new publications by the GI-TOC that are part of the “Infrastructure of Integrity” series: The first, entitled Political Economy of Organized Corruption
The Siracusa International Institute strongly condemns the brutal murder of Giorgios Karaivaz, a well-known Greek investigative journalist, who was killed on Friday 9 April in Athens. Mr Karaivaz is unfortunately only the latest of a long list of journalists to be murdered around the world. This is an extremely serious matter because it is presumable
