The other side of the Channel
A growing number of migrants are turning to reverse smuggling to leave the UK
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NAS-Obs, WEA-Obs
Cocaine and conflict in Mali, Niger, and Libya
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UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC
A moment of reckoning
Does the stagnation of the UNTOC review mechanism suggest that states have lost interest in the convention itself?
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Global Organized Crime Index, AMA-Obs, APA-Obs, AR-Obs, CA-Obs, CAM-Obs, CSA-Obs, EAS-Obs, ESA-Obs, EUR-Obs, HT-Obs, NAS-Obs, SA-Obs, SEE-Obs, WEA-Obs
The Global Organized Crime Index 2025
Crime at a crossroads
ASSASSINATION WITNESS
The Daphne Caruana Galizia assassination explained
CSA-Obs
Human rights abuses in the Taliban's drug control regime
SEE-Obs
Back under scrutiny
Bosnia and Herzegovina returns to the FATF grey list despite years of anti-money laundering reforms
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OC 24 - 2026 | Call for application
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The Global Initiative comprises a network of over 600 independent global and regional experts working on human rights, democracy, governance, and development issues where organized crime has become increasingly pertinent.
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CSA-Obs
13 Aug 2026
Human rights abuses in the Taliban’s drug control regime
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NAS-Obs, WEA-Obs
07 Aug 2026
Cocaine and conflict in Mali, Niger, and Libya
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Global Initiative
22 Jul 2026
City of Contrasts: Urban Safety, Migration and Climate Change and Their Impact on the Somali Community in Eastleigh, Nairobi
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CSA-Obs
09 Jul 2026
Heroin trafficking along the northern and southern routes
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APA-Obs
09 Jul 2026
Global Organized Crime Index 2025 – Oceania Overview
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Eco-Solve
07 Jul 2026
Monitoring online illegal wildlife trade: Featuring musk deer in South Asia and ostrich trade in Cameroon
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SA-Obs
30 Jun 2026
Western Cape gang monitor – Issue 9
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NAM-Obs
26 Jun 2026
The new drug world, Rethinking multilateral cooperation in an age of synthetic threats
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CSA-Obs
26 Jun 2026
India’s role in global synthetic drug markets
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SEE-Obs
18 Jun 2026
Professional enablers and the architecture of illicit finance in the Western Balkans
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Eco-Solve
17 Jun 2026
Combating the illegal wildlife trade online, A guide for cyber units, NGOs and researchers
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Global Initiative
14 Jun 2026
Prisoner’s dilemma, Responding to organized crime in a new world
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Our network
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View Profile Abdel Aziz Mossi
Researcher, LASDEL and Director, SOAFRICA CONSEILS SARL
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View Profile Jim Crotty
Law Enforcement Outreach Manager, Meta Platforms, Inc.
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View Profile Joongyoung Hahm
Professor (SAP), Hanyang University
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Associate Professor, University of Milano - Bicocca
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Executive Director of CINTOC
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Director, Organised Crime and Policing Studies
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Associate Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, University of Leeds
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View Profile Gabriella E. Sanchez
Lead of Migrant Smuggling Research, Migration Policy Centre, European University Institute