Source: Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
This brief explores the roles women play in community resilience to organized crime, the socio-economic factors shaping these roles and the challenges associated with them, highlighting typologies of how women act as change-makers in
driving resistance to organized crime and criminal governance. Better understanding these dynamics helps inform successful interventions without merely placing additional burdens on women in contexts where the state has failed to provide protection and basic services.