ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

South Africa’s illicit copper economy

South Africa's illicit copper economy

...Every day in South Africa, criminal elements strip copper from wherever they can find it, including roads, homes, construction sites, and mines. The theft of copper from already ailing infrastructure ...

Posted on 13 Dec 2023

Author(s): Jenni Irish-Qhobosheane

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Shanti Walde

Analyst, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

... Shanti is an Analyst at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. She works on the intersection between conflict sensitivity, organized crime and protection issues in Libya ...

Posted on 11 Dec 2023
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Juliana Niño Pardo

Project Officer, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

...Juliana joined the Global Initiative in December 2023 as a Project Officer. She has experience in peacebuilding, crime prevention, project management, and fieldwork with communities in Colombia. Julia...

Posted on 11 Dec 2023
06 Dec

IUU Fishing Index

IUU Fishing Risk Index 2023

IUU Fishing Risk Index 2023

...Since the mid-1990s, many actions have been undertaken internationally, regionally, and nationally to combat IUU fishing. These have included international and regional agreements (voluntary and bindi...

Posted on 06 Dec 2023

CSA-Obs

Monitoring the evolution of the illicit economy in Afghanistan

Monitoring the evolution of the illicit economy in Afghanistan

...With the Taliban capturing control of Afghanistan, the potential future for illicit economies and organised crime within the country and the region more broadly is in enormous flux. Institutions curr...

Posted on 05 Dec 2023

Author(s): John Collins, Ian Tennant, Thi Hoang, Ana Paula Oliveira, Shehryar Fazli, Marcena Hunter, Alastair Macbeath

SEE-Obs

South Eastern Europe Risk Bulletin #17

Observatory of illicit economies in South Eastern Europe

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF Observatory of Illicit Economies in South Eastern Europe Issue 17 December 2023 Summary highlights Security threat: How criminals exploit Kosovo’s political challenges. De...

Posted on 05 Dec 2023
18 Dec

Crime & Conflict, EAS-Obs

Time of Troubles: The Russian underworld since the Ukraine invasion

The Russian underworld since the Ukraine invasion

...Time of Troubles is the first comprehensive assessment of the impact of the Ukraine war on the Russian underworld. The war’s human and economic costs, along with the political retrenchment of a regi...

Posted on 04 Dec 2023

Author(s): Mark Galeotti

06 Dec

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Resilience Fund

Diálogo Regional para la Resiliencia «De la recomendación a la acción»

...Lo que constituye un crimen medioambiental ha sido objeto de debate durante mucho tiempo. Sin embargo, la degradación ambiental inducida por el ser humano y la pérdida de biodiversidad son ambas rel...

Posted on 01 Dec 2023

Global Organized Crime Index

Corruption and crime, measuring the links

...Over the last three decades, organized crime has been allowed to grow within the cracks and evolve in step with the global economy and advancements in technology to levels hardly imaginable. In contra...

Posted on 01 Dec 2023

Author(s): Odd Berne Malme, Kosyo Ivanov

10 Dec

Global Organized Crime Index, Sustainable Development Goals, UN - Security and Rights, UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

GITOC at the 10th Conference of the States Parties (COSP) to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC)

...Throughout GI-TOC’s decade of analyzing and responding to transnational organized crime, the fundamental importance of corruption as a driver and enabler of organized crime has always been clear.  ...

Posted on 30 Nov 2023

WEA-Obs

2023 West Africa Organised Crime Resilience Framework

2023 West Africa Organised Crime Resilience Framework

...The 2023 West Africa Organized Crime Resilience Framework (OCRF) is a tool developed by the GI-TOC as part of the Organised Crime: West African Response to Trafficking (OCWAR-T) project. The OCRF...

Posted on 28 Nov 2023

Author(s): Lyes Tagziria, Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo

Drug Policy, ESACD

Women and drug policy in Eastern and Southern Africa

Women and drug policy in Eastern and Southern Africa

...Gender equality is recognized as a fundamental human right and is enshrined in international frameworks such as the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and international treaties such as the Conventi...

Posted on 27 Nov 2023

Author(s): Julia Stanyard

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