C4ADS Releases 2024 Annual Report

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE‌ — C4ADS, a nonprofit with a mission to defeat the illicit networks that threaten global peace and security, is pleased to announce the release of our 2024 annual report. This report encapsulates a year of immense growth, impactful analysis, and groundbreaking technological advancements.

Last year, C4ADS expanded our reach to 41 countries, dedicating 399 collective days to fieldwork. This included delivering tailored training and workshops, convening our partners, and conducting data-driven investigations to shed light on critical global issues. C4ADS’ work was cited an average of 28 times per day across media outlets worldwide, raising awareness of pressing security issues including — but not limited to — conflict in Ukraine, state-sponsored Chinese ownership of critical mineral mining operations in Africa, and goods produced with forced labor entering global pharmaceutical supply chains.

One of the key highlights of the year was the launch of Triton, a pioneering platform that enables users to map industrial fishing vessels and their ownership networks. Triton has already onboarded nearly 800 users from over 120 organizations, significantly enhancing the transparency and accountability of the fishing industry. Additionally, C4ADS continued to enhance and improve Seamless Horizons — one of the largest repositories of publicly available information currently in existence — enabling upwards of 370 newly onboarded organizations to easily search through more than two billion records from over 900 sources.

Looking ahead to 2025, C4ADS remains committed to investigating some of the most pressing challenges facing the global community, including including deepening our understanding of the security nexuses linking China, Iran, Russia, and North Korea, as well as testing multivariate predictive analysis to identify risk and suggest a plan of action around threats to global stability. 

To view the complete 2024 Annual Report and learn more about our achievements last year, please download the PDF at the link below.

For additional information about our mission and/or work, please visit our website at c4ads.org or reach out to us directly at [email protected]. For any related media inquiries, please email [email protected].