The Global Assassination Monitor report provides an analysis of the data from the Global Assassination database for 2019 and 2020, and highlights the ways in which contract killings and organized crime intersect.
Global ASSASSINATION MONITOR
Map analysis
The Global Assassinations Monitor includes more than 2700 cases of assassinations and attempted assassinations, reported in the media. The map helps to visualize the data, and allows the user to analyze trends using filters based on motive, target group, gender, method, outcome, country and date.
Explore cases on the mapGeographic analysis
Drawing on global and regional news sources only, the geographic analysis pages break down the data by target groups, motives, methods, and perpetrators globally, by continent, as well as by sub-continental regions.
Thematic analysis
The thematic analysis section allows the user to view and analyse the data according to the thematic variables included in the Global Assassinations Monitor: target group, motive, method and perpetrator.
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The #AssassinationWitness campaign sheds light on the human impact of organized crime, calling attention to the individual cases of assassinations of people whose work, aspirations and goals confront and challenge the power of organized crime. By highlighting these individual cases, the project bears witness to the victims of these killings and pays homage to their bravery and quest for criminal justice.
