Podcasts by Faces of Assassination
Organized crime is indiscriminate in who it targets. Not only are conflicts between, and within, criminal groups often settle with violence, but the same violence regularly claims the lives of innocent people.
There are also a very large number of those who are deliberately targeted for murder because they choose to take a stand against organized crime. This podcast tells their stories.
Further podcasts by Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
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Javier Valdez from 2021-05-15T12:30
Javier Valdez was an award-winning Mexican journalist at https://riodoce.mx/ (Ríodoce) in Culiacán, Sinaloa. For years he bravely covered the issue of drug trafficking, and for that he was murdered...
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Marielle Franco from 2021-05-10T16:00
Born and bred in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro, Marielle Franco was a passionate politician - fighting against rampant police violence in the favelas she called home.
Marielle represented commu...
Politicians from 2021-05-10T16:00
It's an election year in Mexico and according to the government at least 64 Mexican politicians have been murdered in the past six months. Yet this phenomenon is not exclusive to Mexico - In Italy,...
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Mary Rice: Director of the Environmental Investigation Agency from 2021-02-05T10:00
In this episode, we will be hearing about how the illegal wildlife trade, which is worth billions of dollars annually, is driven by demand in Asia and serviced by well-organized transnational crimi...
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Human Rights Defenders from 2020-12-27T10:00
In 1948, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was signed. It was hoped, would usher in a new age where the fundamental rights of every individual are universally protected.
To protect and...
Roxanna Altholz from 2020-12-18T11:00
In this special episode of Faces of Assassination, https://twitter.com/AnaPCOliveira_ (Ana Paula) speaks to international human rights lawyer and scholar https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/fa...
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Edwin Dagua from 2020-12-07T09:00
Edwin Gregorio Dagua Ipia was just 28 when he was gunned down in the afternoon in the Huellas indigenous reserve in the Cauca region of south-west Colombia. Dagua was killed by FARC dissidents for ...
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Investigating an Assassination from 2020-12-01T15:00
What happens when a prominent individual like Ján Kuciak or Daphne Caruana Galizia are murdered and those involved are at the very highest levels of society? How do law enforcement go about investi...
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Ján Kuciak from 2020-11-27T09:00
Ján Kuciak wasn't a revolutionary type of person - he was mild mannered with a peaceful personality but despite this he stood out as a rare Investigative journalist.
He was investigating the i...
Bertha Zúñiga: La hija de la asesinada ambientalista y defensora de los derechos de los indígenas, Berta Cáceres from 2020-11-04T14:00
En este episodio especial Siria Gastelum Félix habla con Bertha Zúñiga, la hija de Berta Cáceres quien fue asesinada por ser ambientalista y defensora de los derechos de los indígenas. Analizamos l...
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Bertha Zúñiga: The daughter of the murdered environmentalist and indigenous rights campaigner, Berta Cáceres. from 2020-11-04T14:00
In this special episode Siria Gastelum Felix speaks with Bertha Zúñiga, the daughter of the murdered environmentalist and indigenous rights campaigner Berta Cáceres. We discuss her mothers life as ...
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Berta Cáceres from 2020-10-22T09:00
https://assassination.globalinitiative.net/face/berta-caceres/ (Berta Cáceres) led the indigenous Lenca community in Río Blanco in the fight against the Agua Zarca Dam. Her success led to internati...
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Environmental Defenders from 2020-10-22T09:00
The battle to protect the environment from systemic destruction by predatory industries and organized crime has raged for generations. And there are those for who protecting biodiversity or ancestr...
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Bill Kayong from 2020-09-22T09:00
In the Malaysian state of Sarawak, land-related tussles between local communities and large companies have been going on for decades. Stories of harassment, violence and intimidation are not new, b...
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Ahmed Divela from 2020-08-25T15:00
On the 16th January 2019, the investigative journalist Ahmed Hussein-Suale Divela was assassinated by two gunmen on the streets of Accra in Ghana. This is his story. https://assassination.globalini...
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Faces of Assassination from 2020-08-25T15:00
This is the Faces of Assassination Podcast from the https://globalinitiative.net/ (Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime).
On the 15th of June 2020, the https://globalinitiati...
Journalists from 2020-08-25T15:00
On this episode of Faces of Assassination, Siria Gastelum Felix will be discussing the assassination of journalists.
625 journalists over the past 20 years that have been murdered for their rep...
Faces of Assassination from 2020-08-25T15:00
This is the Faces of Assassination Podcast from the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized C...
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