Event Details
Transnational Organized Crime: New Threats, New Responses (25 September, 6-8 pm, Moot Court, John Jay College)
The event is free, but space is limited: Click here to register (in-person only)
Time for Multilateral Action Against Crimes that Affect the Environment (26 September, 0800-0930, Conference Room 6, UN HQ)
Access is available to those with credentials to UNHQ during High-level week.
Posted on 17 Sep 2025
The UN General Assembly High-level Week takes place between 23 September and 29 September in New York, at a time of unprecedented challenges for peace and security, as well as ongoing UN funding crises and major reform processes.
In this context, given the role of transnational organized crime in driving and benefitting from conflicts and instability, and the need to better address TOC through a changing multilateral system, GI-TOC’s Executive Director will take part in the following two High-level Week events:
Transnational Organized Crime: New Threats, New Responses (25 September, 6-8 pm, Moot Court, John Jay College)
Organized by John Jay College of Criminal Justice, in partnership with the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
The event is free, but space is limited: Click here to register (in-person only)
Speakers:
- Dr. Mark Shaw, Executive Director, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
- Dr. Jana Arsovska, Associate Professor, Sociology Department, and Director, Master of Arts Degree Program in International Crime and Justice
- Dr. Gohar Petrossian, Professor, Criminal Justice Department, and Executive Officer, Program of Doctoral Studies in Criminal Justice, CUNY Graduate Center
- Mr. Ian Tennant, Director of Multilateral Engagement, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime
Time for Multilateral Action Against Crimes that Affect the Environment (26 September, 0800-0930, Conference Room 6, UN HQ)
Organized by Brazil, Peru, France, the Royal Foundation, and GI-TOC
Mark Shaw will speak at this side event, which will bring together leading governments and civil society actors to discuss the path forward for multilateral efforts on this issue. It aims to promote ambitious action toward fulfilling the shared responsibility of the international community to combat crimes that affect the environment through strengthened multilateralism.
