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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
Download Jul/Aug 2023

  • 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
Download May/Jun 2023
  • 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
Download Mar/Apr 2023
  • 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
Download Jan/Feb 2023
  • 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
Download Nov/Dec 2022
  • 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
Download Sep/Oct 2022
  • 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
Download July/Aug 2022
  • 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
Download May/Jun 2022
  • 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
Download Mar/Apr 2022
  • 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
Download Jan/Feb 2022
  • 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
Download Nov/Dec 2021
  • 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
Download Sep/Oct 2021
  • 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
Download Jul/Aug 2021
  • 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
Download May/Jun 2021
  • 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

Download Mar/Apr 2021
  • 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
Download Jan/Feb 2021
  • 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
Download Nov/Dec 2020
  • 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
Download Sept/Oct 2020
  • 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

Download Jul/Aug 2020
  • 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?
Download May/Jun 2020
  • 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

Download Mar/Apr 2020 Issue
  • 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
Download Jan/Feb 2020
  • 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

Download Nov/Dec 2019
  • 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
Download Sep/Oct 2019
  • 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

July/August 2019
  • 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
May June 2019
  • 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

March April 2019
  • 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
January February 2019
  • 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