With the FIFA World Cup™ underway fans are rushing to pick up 2018 memorabilia and can be confident they are getting the real thing as they are all authenticated with De La Rue’s highly secure holographic labels which protect against counterfeit goods.

By the end of the year 2018 Africans will be able to enter all 54 African countries, thanks to the new Pan-African passport. With the new passport, comes a new plan to enable free movement of people and facilitate trade.

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From the summer of 2016, all African presidents and ministers of foreign affairs have their Pan-African passport. ''Now we want all Africans to have these passports," said Khabele Matlosa, Head of the African Union's Political Affairs (AU).
The theme "Free movement of people in Africa" took place on 26-28 May 2017 in the Kigali workshop, where was brought out the necessity of opening borders and promoting trade.

DIESEL created their own fake products to draw attention to the issue of falsificating designer clothing.

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They did produced a limited edition under the brand DIESEL, which is all made from quality material, only logo is fake.
For a few days Deisel opened a small pop-up store in Chinatown, and sold clothes at a very low price.

According to the survey MarkMonitor Online Barometer, which took place this year, is now period of constantly growing challenge in fight against counterfeiting and piracy in online and digital world.

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The survey involved 924 representatives of different companies from 9 countries, with 41% of them experienced an increase in counterfeiting of brand and 47% said they are losing profit from the sale of counterfeit goods and piracy.
More and more companies are becoming the victims of a counterfeiting crime, and in the next five years, it will be really difficult to protect the company's trademark.

The Ministry of Interior and Coordination of National Government in Kenya are working on introducing new identification cards of III. generation.

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Police have accused Japanese couple for selling counterfeit Harvoni drug to treat hepatitis C (sofosbuvir and ledipasvir).

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Bipartisan group of US senators have requested for shrimp to be included in the new legislation aimed at improving transparency and traceability of seafood imports.

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The Denmark ’s University of Copenhagen has come up with an revolution idea on "the safest labeling system in combat pirate products".