In the last episode, we look at the issue that underpins most contract killings: impunity. With impunity rates so high for the murder of journalists, environmentalists, and others, it can sometimes feel like a losing battle.

But convictions can be secured. Corruption that leads to assassinations can be exposed, and the masterminds put behind bars.

What changes are needed to disrupt the system of collusion that enables contract killings? And how can the international community step in?

HOST: Ana Paula Oliveira, GITOC

INTERVIEWEE(S):

Agnes Callamard, Secretary General of Amnesty International and former UN Special Rapporteur in Extrajudicial Killing

Steve Carmody, the head of investigation of the Wildlife Justice Commission

Judge Antonio Balsamo, Prosecutor General of the Italian Supreme Court of Cassation and Professor of Criminal law at the Faculty of Law of the LUMSA

Additional Links:

Global Assassination Monitor

Faces of Assassination

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime