CovidCrimeWatch, UN-TOC Watch

UN Crime Congress: Items that need to be on the agenda

...environment and biodiversity, but also to human health, economic development and security; and recognizing the transnational nature of IWT, and therefore the links between IWT and other forms of TOC, illicit financial flows and corruption, we commit to making full use of the existing range of relevant international legal frameworks and sanctions regimes to bring perpetrators to justice through the criminal-justice syste...

Posted on 12 Jun 2020

Author(s): Ian Tennant, Summer Walker

CovidCrimeWatch

A Tale of Two Countries: COVID-19 and organized crime in the Korean Peninsula.

Posted on 20 May 2020

Author(s): Joongyoung Hahm, Mark Ronan

CovidCrimeWatch

#CovidCrimeWatch – n°4

Posted on 15 Apr 2020

Author(s): Lyes Tagziria

CovidCrimeWatch

COVID-19: Strengthen civil society in a time of unprecedented change and undermine criminal governance

Posted on 31 Mar 2020

Author(s): Mark Shaw, Tuesday Reitano

Global Initiative

Will Brexit see organized crime taking back control?

...utation for being more permissive of  UK-based businesses engaging in corrupt practices overseas than are law-enforcement counterparts elsewhere, for example in the US. A key weakness in the UK’s illicit financial flows regulatory framework is the ease with which shell companies can be established in the country. At the same time, legal commentators have suggested that the Serious Fraud Office, the UK’...

Posted on 04 Mar 2020

Author(s): Julia Stanyard, Lyes Tagziria

Crime Terror Nexus, UN - Security and Rights, UN-TOC Watch

New Security Council resolution recognizes broader links between terrorism and organized crime

Posted on 26 Jul 2019

Author(s): Summer Walker, Tuesday Reitano

Drug Policy

Domestic drug consumption in Ghana

Domestic drug consumption in Ghana

...de has had a far more significant domestic socio-political impact on the region than was first believed, with the increase in drug trafficking undermining governance structures through corruption and illicit financial flows. The lack of available data, however, prevents us from accurately assessing the prevalence of drug use, and our understanding of the characteristics of the domestic market is therefore limited...

Posted on 04 Jul 2019

Global Initiative

Organized Crime and Criminal Networks in Africa

...inal economy (Shaw, 2017). Since the year 2000, the associ­ation between organized crime and Africa’s conflicts, statehood, governance, and society has intensified and consolidated. Illicit trade, illicit financial flows, kleptocracy, and crime have become pernicious drivers for growing income inequality, the prolongation and exac­erbation of conflict, the degradation of the environment, and, consequentially, the fu...

Posted on 29 May 2019

Author(s): Mark Shaw, Tuesday Reitano