Event Details
Wednesday, 17 December, 10:00-11:15 (Special event room 2)
Corruption and organized crime: Exploring trends, threats, and impacts
Organized by the GI-TOC, France, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Featuring a presentation from the GI-TOC’s Managing Director, Tuesday Reitano, on the links between corruption and organized crime, based on data and analysis from the latest Global Organized Crime Index.
Posted on 05 Dec 2025
The recently launched 3rd edition of the Global Organized Crime Index once again demonstrates the deep interlinkages between corruption and transnational organized crime.
’State-embedded actors have consistently ranked as the most pervasive criminal actor type globally. […] States find that reforms are often made more difficult because of internal resistance, arising from criminal actors embedded at various levels of the state apparatus.’ Global Organized Crime Index 2025
At the 11th UNCAC COSP, the GI-TOC will present its latest data and analysis on what the Index and other analysis tell us about these links at the global scale, and how this plays out across different illicit economies – such as migrant smuggling, maritime trafficking, and antiquities trafficking, as well as interconnections with conflict and insecurity.
A strong civil society is vital for states to build resilience in the face of these challenges. This includes independent data and analysis, which will underpin the GI-TOC’s interventions at this year’s COSP.
Key events in which the GI-TOC will participate are below (all times are Arabian Standard Time/GMT+3):
Wednesday, 17 December, 10:00-11:15 (Special event room 2)
Corruption and organized crime: Exploring trends, threats, and impacts
Organized by the GI-TOC, France, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Featuring a presentation from the GI-TOC’s Managing Director, Tuesday Reitano, on the links between corruption and organized crime, based on data and analysis from the latest Global Organized Crime Index.
Participate online here – https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82720424672
Wednesday, 17 December, 11:30-12:20 (Special event room 2)
Crime, corruption, and conflict: Combating the impact of criminal and corrupt networks at different stages of the conflict cycle
Organized by Transparency International UK and Besa Global, and supported by Colombia, Iraq, Switzerland, the UK, the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), and the GI-TOC.
Wednesday, 17 December, 13:30-14:20, (Special event room 2)
Port integrity: Cooperation against corruption and crime
Organized by Colombia and supported by UNODC Región Andina y Cono Sur, France, the US Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, and the GI-TOC
Wednesday, 17 December, 15:30-16:20, (Special event room 2)
Securing our borders: Corruption’s role in migrant smuggling,
Organized by the United States
Wednesday, 17 December, 16:00-16:50, (Special event room 1)
Inclusive anti-corruption strategies: Lasting impact in SEE
Organized by North Macedonia and the Regional Anti-Corruption Initiative, and co-organized by Albania, Bulgaria, Montenegro, the UNODC’s Civil Society Unit, the GI-TOC, and the Center for the Study of Democracy.
Wednesday, 17 December, 16:30-17:20, (Special event room 2)
Leveraging the UNCAC to combat cultural racketeering
Organized by Antiquities Coalition, the UNODC, the Arab Republic of Egypt, Italy
Friday, 19 December, 09:00-10:15
Advancing the rights of victims of corruption
Organized by the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice, the European Public Law Organization, Mexico, the Sistema Nacional Anticorrupción (Comité de Participación Ciudadana), Italy, Due Process of Law Foundation, the Global Civil Society Coalition for the UNCAC, the UNODC’s Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Section, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the GI-TOC, the Rule of Law and Anti-Corruption Centre, and the International Scientific and Professional Advisory Council to the UN Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme.
