UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

A happy birthday? As member states prepare for the next Crime Congress, delegates should take stock of the shortcomings of the UNTOC

...The United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC), adopted in 2000, turns 25 this year. To mark this milestone, the Transnational Criminal Law Review published a special issu...

Posted on 16 Sep 2025

Author(s): Darren Brookbanks, Alexandra Steinhoff

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Mina Chiang

Founder and Director, Humanity Research Consultancy

...Mina Chiang is a sought-after expert in combating human trafficking and modern slavery, especially for her work in combating slavery in the scamming compounds in Southeast Asia, ending forced labour i...

Posted on 16 Sep 2025
11 Sep

SEE-Obs

Integrity and independence of the judiciary and anti-corruption bodies in the Western Balkans

Integrity and independence of the judiciary and anti-corruption bodies in the Western Balkans

...The credibility of democratic institutions in the Western Balkans rests on the independence of the judiciary and the effectiveness of anti-corruption bodies. This report provides an in-depth assessmen...

Posted on 11 Sep 2025

Author(s): Ugljesa (Ugi) Zvekic, Ioannis Vlassis

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Benedikt Strunz

Editor / Reporter at Norddeutscher Rundfunk

...Benedikt Strunz is an investigative journalist and researcher. His work has focused on cocaine trafficking and smuggling, (cash) money laundering, tax evasion, sanctions violations, hawala banking, hi...

Posted on 10 Sep 2025
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Henry Harbottle

Analyst, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

...Henry Harbottle joined the Global Initiative against Transnational Organised Crime in July 2024 as an Intern and later as an Analyst in September 2025, working on a part-time basis in the intermediary...

Posted on 09 Sep 2025
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Patrick Phongsathorn

Senior Advocacy Specialist, Fortify Rights

...Patrick Phongsathorn is the Senior Advocacy Specialist at Fortify Rights, a non-profit organization that works to defend human rights for all....

Posted on 09 Sep 2025

APA-Obs

Shutting out the light: The voice of civil society is being stifled in the Mekong region

...The rise of global autocracy threatens liberties everywhere, undermining the very institutional principles that hold government to account in democratic societies. Across the Mekong region, government...

Posted on 09 Sep 2025

Author(s): Patrick Phongsathorn, Ioannis Vlassis

HT-Obs

Guns for hire: Should private military companies take on organized crime?

...In March 2025, the Haitian government hired Vectus Global, a private military company (PMC) led by Erik Prince, the founder of US-based PMC Blackwater, to support the public forces in combating crimin...

Posted on 08 Sep 2025

Author(s): Walter Kemp, Romain Le-Cour-Grandmaison

Cities & Illicit Economies, SA-Obs

Western Cape gang monitor – Issue 6

Western Cape gang monitor

...In the past quarter, South Africa has faced national-level scandals relating to policing, corruption and organized crime. At the provincial level in the Western Cape, things have been no less turbulen...

Posted on 08 Sep 2025
23 Oct

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, North America Strategic Platform on Organized Crime

Unregulated fentanyl in North America: A trilateral perspective

Unregulated fentanyl in North America

...More than 1.1 million people in the United States have died from opioid overdoses since 2000. In Canada, over 50,000 lives have been lost to opioid-related overdoses since 2016. Meanwhile, in Mexico, ...

Posted on 04 Sep 2025

Author(s): Cecilia Farfán-Méndez, Jason Eligh

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Sethasiri Tienpiragul

...Dr Sethasiri Tienpiragul is a legal scholar and public prosecutor based in Thailand. She has degrees from Durham University, and a PhD from Thammasat University in Thailand, focusing on the applicatio...

Posted on 03 Sep 2025

APA-Obs

Sex creation in the digital era

...The adult content industry has undergone a dramatic transformation in the digital era. Online content platforms such as OnlyFans and Fansly have made it easier for individuals to produce, distribute a...

Posted on 03 Sep 2025

Author(s): Sethasiri Tienpiragul

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