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Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes
The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes is an OECD-hosted multilateral framework in which 173 jurisdictions peer review standards against bank secrecy and tax evasion.
Global Organized Crime Index
The Global Organized Crime Index, also called the OC Index, is a GI-TOC expert assessment scoring all 193 UN member states on criminality and resilience (1–10) across criminal markets, criminal actors and 12 resilience indicators, published in 2021, 2023 and 2025 editions.
Global Peace Index
Global Peace Index (GPI): annual ranking of 163 countries' peacefulness by the Institute for Economics and Peace since 2007, using 23 indicators across safety, conflict, and militarisation domains; Iceland has led since 2008.
Global Terrorism Index
The Global Terrorism Index (GTI) is the Institute for Economics & Peace's annual ranking of 163 countries by terrorism impact, scoring incidents, fatalities, injuries, and hostages over five-year weighted averages; the 2026 edition reported 5,582 deaths, a 28 percent fall, with Pakistan ranked most impacted.
Glomar response
Glomar response: a FOIA reply in which a US agency neither confirms nor denies (NCND) that records exist; named for the Hughes Glomar Explorer and Phillippi v. CIA (1976).
Gloria Allred
Gloria Allred (born 1941, Philadelphia) is an American feminist attorney, founding partner of Allred, Maroko & Goldberg (1976), known for discrimination, sexual misconduct, and same-sex marriage cases, and for representing Cosby, Weinstein, and Moore accusers.
Gloria M. Navarro
Gloria M. Navarro, born 1967 in Las Vegas, is a United States district judge for Nevada since 2010 and served as chief judge from 2014 to 2019.
Glynn Simmons
Glynn Ray Simmons, Oklahoma man wrongfully convicted in 1975 of the 1974 murder of Carolyn Sue Rogers, sentenced to death, freed in 2023 after 48 years, the longest US imprisonment before exoneration, declared innocent and awarded $7.15 million.
Goa Inquisition
Goa Inquisition (Inquisição de Goa): Portuguese Holy Office tribunal established at Goa in 1560, the only Portuguese inquisitorial court in a colonial territory; targeted New Christians and converts, suspended 1774–1778, abolished 1812.
Goat's tongue
Goat's tongue is a described European torture in which a bound victim's salt-water-coated soles are licked by a goat until the skin wears away. First mentioned in Franciscus Brunus de San Severino's 1502 treatise; actual historical use is unproven.
Godard family disappearance
Godard family disappearance (affaire Godard): 1999 French cold case in which Caen doctor Yves Godard sailed from Saint-Malo with children Camille and Marius aboard Le Nick; wife Marie-France's blood was found at home; partial remains recovered; case closed in 2012 without charges.
Goff & Jones
Goff & Jones is a leading English treatise on restitution and unjust enrichment, first published in 1966 by Robert Goff and Gareth Jones as The Law of Restitution.
Gold Dagger
Gold Dagger: annual Crime Writers' Association award, also KAA Gold Dagger, for the best crime novel of the year, originally written in English and first published in the UK; created 1955 as the Crossed Red Herrings Award, renamed 1960.
Golden bull
Golden bull: a decree authenticated by a gold seal (bulla). Covers the Byzantine chrysobull, an imperial privilege or treaty document, and European charters of liberties such as Hungary's Golden Bull of 1222 and the German Golden Bull of 1356.
Golden Bull of 1222
The Golden Bull of 1222, or Aranybulla, was a charter of liberties issued by King Andrew II of Hungary in 1222, often compared with Magna Carta.
Golden Bull of 1356
The Golden Bull of 1356 (Goldene Bulle), issued by Emperor Charles IV at Nuremberg and Metz, fixed the seven electors of the Holy Roman Empire, majority-rule election at Frankfurt, electors' privileges, and remained imperial constitutional law until 1806.
Golden power (Italy)
Golden power is the special power the Italian government may exercise over companies in strategic sectors, imposing conditions on or vetoing acquisitions; introduced in 2012, it screens foreign investment.
Goldwater–Nichols Act
Goldwater–Nichols Act (PL 99-433, October 1, 1986), also called the Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986: landmark U.S. law strengthening the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, fixing the chain of command through combatant commanders, and mandating joint duty for officer promotion.
Gone (TV series)
Gone (2026) is a six-part ITV psychological crime drama by George Kay, starring David Morrissey as headmaster Michael Polly and Eve Myles as DS Annie Cassidy, inspired by the book To Hunt a Killer.
Gonzalo P. Curiel
Gonzalo Paul Curiel is an American jurist serving as a senior United States district judge of the Southern District of California, appointed by President Barack Obama in 2012.
Good Neighbor Rule (EPA)
The Good Neighbor Rule is a 2023 EPA rule limiting ozone-season nitrogen oxide emissions from power plants and industrial facilities in 23 upwind states, stayed since 2024.
Good Samaritan law
Good Samaritan law: statutes protecting voluntary emergency rescuers from civil liability, distinct from duty-to-rescue laws. All US states have some form; Germany, France, Italy, Spain impose duties to rescue.
Goods and services tax (Canada)
Canada's goods and services tax (GST), a 5% federal value-added tax under the Excise Tax Act, combined with provincial sales tax as HST in some provinces (13-15%) and separate elsewhere, with QST 9.975% in Quebec.
Goodwin Liu
Goodwin Liu (born 1970) is an Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, appointed by Governor Jerry Brown in 2011 after his failed Ninth Circuit nomination; former UC Berkeley law professor, Ginsburg clerk, retained in 2014 and 2022.
Google's Ideological Echo Chamber
Google's Ideological Echo Chamber, also called the Damore memo, is a 2017 internal Google memo by engineer James Damore arguing biological sex differences partly explain women's underrepresentation in tech; he was fired August 7, 2017.
Goombah
Goombah: Italian-American slang from Neapolitan cumpà (compare, "godfather"), meaning a close friend, mentor, or godfather; also an ethnic slur implying Mafia ties; distinct from goomah (mistress).
Gordon C. Rhea
Gordon C. Rhea is an American attorney serving as Attorney General of the U.S. Virgin Islands, nominated by Governor Albert Bryan Jr. and sworn in in 2024.
Gordon J. Quist
Gordon J. Quist, born 1937 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is a senior United States district judge for the Western District of Michigan, appointed by George H.W. Bush in 1992.
Gordon P. Gallagher
Gordon P. Gallagher, born Gordon Paul Gallagher in 1970, is a United States district judge in Colorado since 2023, appointed by President Biden and the first judge stationed outside Denver.
Gordon Stewart Northcott
Gordon Stewart Northcott, Canadian-born chicken rancher behind the 1928 Wineville Chicken Coop murders in California; convicted of three first-degree murders, executed at San Quentin in 1930; case dramatized in Changeling.