UN-TOC Watch

UNpredictable times

...Ordinarily, staff at the United Nations Office in Vienna would now be preparing for a well-earned summer: tying up loose ends, attending final meetings, setting out-of-office replies and beginning to ...

Posted on 18 Jul 2025

Author(s): Ian Tennant

Crime & Conflict, HT-Obs

The weaponization of displacement by gangs in Haiti

...In 2024, crime-related violence triggered the displacement of at least 1.2 million people globally – more than twice the number recorded in the previous year. In a report to the Human Rights Council...

Posted on 16 Jul 2025

Author(s): Romain Le-Cour-Grandmaison

Global Organized Crime Index, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, AMA-Obs

Organized crime is driving a deadly surge in violence in Brazil

...Violence in Brazil’s northern and north-eastern regions is a growing concern. In 2023, the homicide rate in northern Brazil was 41.5% higher than the national average. Meanwhile, six of the 10 citie...

Posted on 14 Jul 2025

Author(s): Gabriel Funari, Gabriel Granjo

Sanctions and organized crime

New targets, old tools: The G7 ups momentum around the use of sanctions against migrant smugglers and human traffickers

...Human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants continue to dominate political debates and multilateral discourse as leaders search for new tools and strategies to address these crimes. In this contex...

Posted on 11 Jul 2025

Author(s): Matt Herbert

Drug Policy, EUR-Obs

European Drug Trends Monitor

European Drug Trends Monitor

... This is the first report of the GI-TOC European Drug Trends Monitor, an output of our Observatory of Organized Crime in Europe. This series of bulletins will track developments in European drug ma...

Posted on 11 Jul 2025

SEE-Obs

Money laundering in the Western Balkans

Washing away crime

...Money laundering remains a key enabler of organized crime in the Western Balkans, allowing criminal networks to legitimize illicit profits and integrate them into the formal economy. This report exami...

Posted on 09 Jul 2025

Author(s): Anesa Agovic

Gold Watch, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, AR-Obs

Environmental impacts and transitions across illicit, informal and licit economies in Colombia

Environmental impacts and transitions across illicit, informal and licit economies in Colombia

...Illicit economies have been related in complex ways to the armed conflict and criminal governance in Colombia (CEV, 2022; Rettberg, Cárdenas, Ortiz-Riomalo, 2017). The development of these activities...

Posted on 05 Jul 2025

EAS-Obs

Dnipro: The front line of crime

Dnipro

...Dnipro has long played a pivotal role in Ukraine’s political and economic development. Today, the city stands at another crossroads, as a key site for understanding how organized crime has evolved u...

Posted on 04 Jul 2025

APA-Obs

Organized child sexual exploitation

Organized child sexual exploitation

...Child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) and online CSEA (OCSEA) lurk in some of the darkest corners of the criminal universe. Trends in South East Asia suggest that, besides gratification-driven in...

Posted on 03 Jul 2025

Author(s): Virginia Comolli