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Kidnapping

Prisoners at the door of an overloaded jail cell in Brazil.
Posted inNews

Firearms, Disappearances, Prison Overcrowding: Brazil’s Problems Are Getting Worse

by Chris Dalby 1 Aug 202327 Sep 2023
a Colombian army sergeant and her two children in Arauca on July 3 with members of the ELN after the guerilla group kidnapped them in previous days
Posted inNews

Kidnappings Surge in Colombia Amid ELN Peace Negotiations

by Henry Shuldiner 18 Jul 202327 Sep 2023
Posted inNews Human Trafficking

From Smuggling to Trafficking: One Migrant’s Nightmare on the Guatemala-Mexico Border

by Cindy Espina 30 Jun 202327 Sep 2023
Posted inInvestigations

Does US Policy Exacerbate Migrant Kidnappings on the US-Mexico Border?

by Parker Asmann 28 Jun 20232 Oct 2023
An armed National Guardsman patrolling a Buenos Aires neighborhood following a rise in criminality, in particular ransom kidnappings, in 2003.
Posted inNews Argentina

DataInSights: The Rise and Fall of Ransom Kidnappings in Argentina

by Christopher Newton 1 Jun 202327 Sep 2023
Two mothers hug in Mexico's state of Sonora after finding a mass grave.
Posted inNews Mexico

Mothers Searching for Loved Ones in Mexico Abandoned by Authorities

by Raquel Ballestin 19 Oct 202219 Oct 2022
The Kokorat San Ras gang kidnapped almost 30 people from a bus in Haiti
Posted inNews Haiti

The Rise of Haiti’s Violent Rural Gangs

by Alessandro Ford 3 Aug 20224 Aug 2022
Some of the kidnapped foreign missionaries in Haiti after their escape
Posted inNews Haiti

Kidnappings of UN Staff, Diplomats in Haiti Could Help Police Get More Funding

by Douwe den Held 6 Jul 20226 Jul 2022
Posted inNews Haiti

Haiti Gang Has Occupied Supreme Court for Almost a Week

by Alessandro Ford 16 Jun 202216 Jun 2022
Posted inNews Haiti

Why Haiti’s Gang War Keeps On Getting Worse

by Alessandro Ford 20 May 20221 Jun 2022
A man protests a rise in kidnappings in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Posted inNews Haiti

Haiti’s Kidnapping Crisis Grows Ever More Desperate in 2022

by Chris Dalby 11 Apr 202211 Apr 2022
The leaders of 400 Mawozo, masked to conceal their identity
Posted inNews

How a Haiti Suburb Fuelled the Rise of a Formidable Street Gang

by Sergio Saffon 23 Mar 202223 Mar 2022

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