CovidCrimeWatch, Sustainable Development Goals, UN-TOC Watch

Adapting Sustainable Development Goal 16 to crime under COVID

... 2020, from illegal wildlife trade to counterfeit goods. Here we highlight two landmark shifts that happened early in the pandemic and which will affect the post-pandemic recovery period and beyond. cybercrime explodes The pandemic resulted in a meteoric rise in internet usage, as people went online for work, school, information gathering, shopping and socializing. Criminal activity online also boome...

Posted on 13 Jul 2021

Author(s): Mark Shaw, Tuesday Reitano

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

Vienna counter-crime diplomacy held hostage to political disagreements

...c community in Vienna to make meaningful, innovative progress in tackling illicit markets. For example, earlier in May, diplomats met at the UN to design a process for creating a new UN convention on cybercrime. As it turned out, the meeting could not agree on fundamental issues, such as where the process should be based (i.e. Vienna or New York) or how external stakeholders should be included in the p...

Posted on 28 May 2021

Author(s): Ian Tennant

SEE-Obs

South Eastern Europe Risk Bulletin #7

Observatory of illicit economies in South Eastern Europe

...orted in Serbia in March, when several offenders were arrested for sharing child abuse material. As discussed in this article, such cases show the growing dangers of tech-facilitated crime, including cyberbullying, sexual exploitation and sextortion in the Western Balkans, and the challenges faced by law enforcement. Read more Western Balkan criminal groups in Greece. In recent years, Greece has become...

Posted on 13 May 2021

Sustainable Development Goals, UN-TOC Watch

Kyoto Declaration falls short of addressing the real challenges of organized crime

...aration with regard to drugs, child sexual abuse and exploitation, wildlife trafficking, trafficking in falsified medical products, trafficking in cultural property, smuggling of commercial goods and cybercrime. There is also a commitment to strengthening measures to prosecute hate crimes. The Kyoto Declaration does offer progress on the recognition of crime as a development issue, and embraces othe...

Posted on 09 Mar 2021

Author(s): Ian Tennant

Global Initiative

Imprisonment for defamation seeks to silence investigative journalism in Niger

..., a crippling sum by Nigerien standards. Of greater concern is the risk that a law introduced in 2019 may be used against Aksar, under which he could face imprisonment. Article 29 of the 2019 anti-cybercrime law sets the penalty for online defamation at between XOF1 million (US$1 840) and XOF5 million (US$9 210), but includes provisions for six-month to three-year jail terms. The use of defamatio...

Posted on 25 Jan 2021

Author(s): Alexandre Bish