Assassination Witness, CAM-Obs

Julio Valdivia: Writing trapped in a lawless hell

...led. Later that day, at around four in the afternoon, reporters began notifying WhatsApp groups that a body had been found on the railway line in Tezonapa, Veracruz, a state located along the Gulf of Mexico. The victim had been beheaded with a chainsaw and his murderers had left his dismembered limbs on the tracks. His friends were able to identify him from the gruesome remains thanks to a distinctiv...

Posted on 25 Nov 2020

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

The 10th UN Conference of Parties to the UN Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime

...ghts in fighting organized crime, as well as going into new levels of detail on the importance of the economic dimensions of organized crime investigations. Developments on the UNTOC’s protocols Mexico tabled a resolution on firearms trafficking, the focus of one of the Convention’s three supplementary protocols. And the US tabled a resolution concerned with the implementation of the Trafficking ...

Posted on 23 Oct 2020

Author(s): Ian Tennant

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

GI-TOC statement at the 10th UNTOC CoP

... the GI-TOC is publishing a flagship report analysing the political history of the Convention.  The report will be launched at a virtual side event chaired by the Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Mexico, on Monday 12th October. The report details the circumstances that made the Convention a reality and suggests ways in which the work of the CoP and the wider UN could be updated to lead the w...

Posted on 13 Oct 2020

Author(s): Mark Shaw

UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch

The transnational organized crime agenda at the 75th UN General Assembly

...rug policy is meant to achieve. Some states use this space – which reaches agreement by vote rather than consensus – to include language and issues that are often stifled in Vienna. For instance, Mexico, which steers the resolution, used the general debate to reiterate its support for a public-health and human-rights approach to drug policy, an ongoing point of contention among groups of states. ...

Posted on 12 Oct 2020

Author(s): Summer Walker

CovidCrimeWatch

#CovidCrimeWatch – August

... By the end of August 2020, more than 25.5 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 had been registered, with more than 850 000 confirmed deaths documented worldwide. The United States, Brazil, Mexico and the United Kingdom remained among the worst-hit countries in the world in terms of total confirmed deaths, but in the week that former president Pranab Mukherjee passed away following a COVID-19 ...

Posted on 15 Sep 2020

Author(s): Lyes Tagziria

CovidCrimeWatch, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Policing in Rio: Beyond confrontation?

... countries such as El Salvador, which also suffers from endemic violence at the hands of criminal groups, stay-at-home orders have curtailed homicides by keeping its notorious street gangs inside. In Mexico and Brazil, however, organized crime groups may have adapted better to the pandemic circumstances. For instance, cocaine interdiction at European ports has risen 20% over the past year, with most shi...

Posted on 15 Sep 2020

CovidCrimeWatch

Counterfeiting during a pandemic: What can we learn from it?

...ector, recent research from the OECD and EU shows that pharmaceutical supply chains are secure at the wholesale level, but become more vulnerable with the introduction of second-tier distributors. In Mexico, for instance, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel uses its control of small and medium-sized pharmacies to insert counterfeit products into the supply chain. If the pandemic is therefore to...

Posted on 15 Sep 2020

Author(s): Gabriel Moberg, Justin Picard

ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin #11

Civil Society Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa

Posted on 11 Sep 2020

Extortion in Central America, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, CAM-Obs

Guía Práctica: Para prevenir, detectar y erradicar el delito de extorsión en Centroamérica

Guía Práctica

Posted on 10 Sep 2020

ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin #10

Civil Society Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa

Posted on 13 Aug 2020

CovidCrimeWatch

#CovidCrimeWatch – July

Posted on 30 Jul 2020

Author(s): Lyes Tagziria