Faces of Assassination

Faces of Assassination

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Episodes 20
Avg. Duration 23m
Activity Dormant
Since Aug 2020
Latest Episode Jun 2025

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Schedule
Weekly
Format
Episodic
Hosting
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About This Podcast

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.

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Season 2! Underworlds with Mark Shaw - Underworlds with Mark Shaw

Jun 21, 2025 2m Trailer

Underworlds with Mark Shaw is returning for another season.Mark sits down with authors to discuss their investigations into the murky world of organized crime.In season two, we hear about a range of…

S1E20 Javier Valdez

May 15, 2021 6m

Javier Valdez was an award-winning Mexican journalist at Ríodoce in Culiacán, Sinaloa. For years he bravely covered the issue of drug trafficking, and for that he was murdered.Javier Valdez…

S1E19 Marielle Franco

May 10, 2021 5m

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 communities…

S1E18 Politicians

May 10, 2021 43m

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,…

S1E16 Wayne Lotter

Feb 05, 2021 4m

Thousands of Elephants are killed each year in Africa by poachers. The thin red line between these animals and extinction is the scores of brave men and women who risk their lives to protect them.One…

S1E17 Mary Rice: Director of the Environmental Investigation Agency

Feb 05, 2021 20m

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…

S1E15 Human Rights Defenders

Dec 27, 2020 48m

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…

S1E14 Roxanna Altholz

Dec 18, 2020 35m

In this special episode of Faces of Assassination, Ana Paula speaks to international human rights lawyer and scholar Roxanna Altholz.Roxanna was part of the international investigation into the…

S1E13 Edwin Dagua

Dec 07, 2020 5m

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…

S1E12 Investigating an Assassination

Dec 01, 2020 46m

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…

S1E11 Ján Kuciak

Nov 27, 2020 6m

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…

S1E10 Bertha Zúñiga: La hija de la asesinada ambientalista y defensora de los derechos de los indígenas, Berta Cáceres

Nov 04, 2020 27m

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 la…

S1E9 Bertha Zúñiga: The daughter of the murdered environmentalist and indigenous rights campaigner, Berta Cáceres.

Nov 04, 2020 22m

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 an…

S1E7 Berta Cáceres

Oct 22, 2020 6m

Berta Cáceres led the indigenous Lenca community in Río Blanco in the fight against the Agua Zarca Dam. Her success led to international recognition as she was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize…

S1E8 Environmental Defenders

Oct 22, 2020 52m

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 ancestral…

S1E6 Mediators

Sep 22, 2020 54m

The life of a mediator is complicated and often very dangerous, they find themselves placed between two sides that are fundamentally opposed to one another, with the difficult task of finding common…

S1E5 Bill Kayong

Sep 22, 2020 4m

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, but…

S1E4 Ahmed Divela

Aug 25, 2020 5m

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.Ahmed Divela, Faces of…

S1E3 Journalists

Aug 25, 2020 45m

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 reporting…

S1E2 Faces of Assassination

Aug 25, 2020 23m

This is the Faces of Assassination Podcast from the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.On the 15th of June 2020, the GI launched the Assassination Witness campaign to stamp out…

Frequently Asked Questions

How many episodes does Faces of Assassination have?

Faces of Assassination has published 20 episodes since August 2020, covering topics in History, News.

Is Faces of Assassination still active?

Faces of Assassination is currently dormant with new episodes weekly. Average episode length is 23m.

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