UN-TOC Watch, WEA-Obs

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

...n representing Africa. Nigeria is of strategic importance to regional and global security, and the illicit economy. Insurgency; human trafficking and smuggling; arms trafficking; the narcotics trade; illicit financial flows; piracy; illicit plastic-waste flows; wildlife trafficking; illegal fishing; crude-oil theft; illegal mining; and counterfeiting are just some of the transnational organized crime types converging in...

Posted on 23 Nov 2021

Author(s): Emmanuel Mayah

SEE-Obs

South Eastern Europe Risk Bulletin #10

Observatory of illicit economies in South Eastern Europe

...k at how cryptocurrencies work, provide examples of cryptomining in the region and examine the challenges the region is starting to face, particularly in relation to cryptocurrencies as an element of illicit financial flows. Read more Building bridges between civil society and the government in North Macedonia. The Observatory of Illicit Economies in South Eastern Europe is currently carrying out a series of resilience ...

Posted on 23 Nov 2021

Wildlife Watch, APA-Obs

Following the tracks of Asia’s snow leopard trafficking syndicates

...is linked to the trade in other illicit commodities. The project also tracks trafficking pipelines in China and other supply countries in central and South Asia, cross-border trafficking networks and illicit financial flows sustaining the illicit trade. 1st investigation: China's snow leopard crimes, 5 November 2021, Hsiuwen Liu 2nd investigation: Nepal’s cross-border snow leopard smuggling networks, 12 Nov...

Posted on 05 Nov 2021

Drug Policy, UN-TOC Watch

Thinking inside the box

...ng some member state support for this position. Another civil society intervention came from John Collins, Director of Academic Engagement at the GI-TOC, who highlighted the big picture impacts of illicit financial flows in the Western Balkans and East and southern Africa (two regions on which the GI-TOC has published research) and concomitant need for civil society inclusion: Our regional examples are illustrativ...

Posted on 03 Nov 2021

Author(s): Ian Tennant

Global Initiative

Back to the future

...de by these supposed accommodations, or whether conflict for control over illicit markets will ensue. We believe this final scenario, which has largely defined political economies and competition for illicit financial flows in the country, is the most likely outcome. But whatever emerges under the new regime will certainly not be confined to Afghanistan. The Taliban takeover will have knock-on effects in the wider re...

Posted on 26 Aug 2021

Author(s): Marcena Hunter

CovidCrimeWatch, Sustainable Development Goals, UN-TOC Watch

Adapting Sustainable Development Goal 16 to crime under COVID

Posted on 13 Jul 2021

Author(s): Mark Shaw, Tuesday Reitano

UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

Tackling corruption as an enabler for environmental crime

Posted on 16 Jun 2021

Author(s): Giulia D’Amico

Wildlife Watch, APA-Obs

The Chaimat case: Illegal logging, organized crime and money laundering in Thailand

The Chaimat case

Posted on 28 May 2021

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

Vienna counter-crime diplomacy held hostage to political disagreements

Posted on 28 May 2021

Author(s): Ian Tennant

Assassination Witness, Drug Policy, ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin #18

Civil Society Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa

...grows. Madagascar is also home to significant illegal markets in natural resources, from logging to gemstones and endangered species. Mauritius and the Seychelles have been identified as conduits for illicit financial flows. Corruption is a major facilitator of drugs markets and other forms of organized crime and erodes the governance of the island states. This special issue of the Risk Bulletin aims to cast light on ho...

Posted on 27 May 2021