UN Cyberwatch, UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

UN and organized crime: The podcast

Posted on 11 May 2022

Author(s): Ian Tennant

16 May

Resilience Fund, UN-TOC Watch

The Global Initiative at the 31st CCPCJ

... policy issues. Amid a busy season of meetings for the Vienna-based crime-focused diplomatic community, at the CCPCJ member states will consider four draft resolutions. Given the thematic focus on cybercrime in the plenary agenda and the ongoing negotiations on a new cybercrime treaty at the UN, the UK’s resolution on 'effective national legal frameworks to protect children from sexual exploitatio...

Posted on 11 May 2022

UN-TOC Watch

War, walkouts and withdrawals

...o find consensus on its resolution on the misuse of information technologies for illicit trafficking and money laundering. Although this is a controversial resolution in the context of the ongoing UN cybercrime treaty negotiations , a version of the text would most likely have reached consensus in 'normal' times. However, all EU countries and others, including the US, Canada, Australia and the UK, refu...

Posted on 24 Mar 2022

Author(s): Ian Tennant

02 Mar

MMFU

Ethical guidance for civil society organizations monitoring and responding to online trafficking in endangered species

Disruptive endeavours

... lists. This lack of prioritization ultimately stems from governments who refuse to acknowledge the urgency of tackling threats to biodiversity or to address the challenges posed by weak responses to cybercrime. Faced with almost complete impunity for illegal wildlife traders online, civil society actors, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs), conservation organizations, and citizen invest...

Posted on 17 Feb 2022

Author(s): Alastair Macbeath

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Dr. R.V. Gundur

Senior Lecturer, Flinders University

...ralian National University, where he was a Hedley Bull Scholar; and a BA in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Tulane University. His areas of expertise include illicit enterprise, gangs, and cybercrime. His work has appeared in reports published by the European Union and the City of London Corporation and he has been published in several academic journals including Urban Affairs Review; Devian...

Posted on 08 Feb 2022

UN-TOC Watch, WEA-Obs

Interview with Nigerian vice presidential candidate for INTERPOL, Garba Baba Umar

... Large economies all over the world attract transnational organized crime groups, and Nigeria is no exception – from drug cartels in Latin America to counterfeiting rings in Asia, arms traffickers, cyber criminals, sea pirates and terrorist groups trying to incubate new cells, so Nigeria must constantly keep watch over its airports, seaports and land borders. It is therefore important for Nigeria to ...

Posted on 23 Nov 2021

Author(s): Emmanuel Mayah

UN-TOC Watch

Rare opportunity for civil society to engage on organized crime

...d Crime (UNTOC) implementation review mechanism, the UNTOC substantive working groups – in which civil society is unfortunately still not allowed to participate – and the upcoming negotiations on cybercrime beginning in January 2022. Members of civil society organizations around the world who work to prevent and counter organized crime and mitigate its damaging effects continually face threats a...

Posted on 19 Nov 2021

Author(s): Ian Tennant

Drug Policy, UN-TOC Watch

Thinking inside the box

...ittee, the OSCE-wide Drug Conference, Asian Conference, a Mediterranean Partners for Co-operation Group meeting and the Annual Police Experts Meeting – all of which were addressed by the GI-TOC. cybercrime Member states in Vienna have submitted their ideas on the agenda and modalities of the Ad Hoc Committee that will negotiate a new UN instrument on cybercrime, ahead of its first meeting in Ja...

Posted on 03 Nov 2021

Author(s): Ian Tennant

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Jessica Jahn

Senior Associate, International Centre for Criminal Law Reform and Criminal Justice Policy,

...ciate of the International Centre for Criminal Law Reform. She holds a postgraduate degree in criminal justice policy (MSc Distinction, LSE), for which she studied international cooperation to combat cybercrime. Jessica has worked on projects in Canada and abroad on access to justice, correctional policy, organized crime, maritime security, and the prevention of violent extremism....

Posted on 18 Oct 2021
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Patricia Tricorache

Illegal Wildlife Trafficking Research Associate, Colorado State University’s Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory.

...ldlife trade (IWT) expert who began investigating the cheetah trade in 2005 for the Cheetah Conservation Fund. Her research, which covers numbers, routes and drivers for demand and supply, as well as cyber commerce, has brought attention to the much-ignored issue of live cheetah cubs for the trade, and was key to support the inclusion of this trade in the Convention on International Trade in Endangered...

Posted on 22 Sep 2021

UN-TOC Watch

Up for discussion: Opportunities for civil society to help shape policy in Vienna

...he exclusion and detention of a Serbian journalist at the 2019 conference, held in the UAE. Follow the UNCAC Coalition for updates as to how civil society can engage at the 2021 conference. Ongoing: cybercrime The rise of the internet has played a key role in the explosion in growth of illicit markets since the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) was adopted some 20 years ago...

Posted on 09 Sep 2021

Author(s): Ian Tennant

MMFU

Taking the green crime fight online

...ng a gap in the global response that allows wildlife traders to openly seek customers online, market goods, conduct transactions and stimulate demand. This mirrors a broader challenge in combating cyber-enabled crime – namely that criminals are on the web, but the police are not. Reasons for this are complex, partly to do with the rapid growth of for-profit tech companies that have resisted regula...

Posted on 19 Aug 2021

Author(s): Simone Haysom

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