SEE-Obs

Legal entry, irregular exit: The growing role of the Western Balkans in human smuggling into the EU

...In late 2025, a group of Chinese nationals arrived in Belgrade on a commercial flight. Their papers were in order and their passports stamped; their entry was entirely legal. Within days, however, the...

Posted on 02 Jun 2026

Author(s): Dardan Kocani

Resilience Fund

Why UN engagement matters for strengthening state resilience to organized crime

...Grassroots action to global impact...

Posted on 01 Jun 2026

Author(s): Isabel Diaz

Eco-Solve

Artificial Intelligence for environmental crime enforcement

Artificial Intelligence for environmental crime enforcement

...Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly emerging as an important tool in environmental crime enforcement. Environmental crimes, such as illegal logging, mining, fishing, wildlife trafficking and waste...

Posted on 28 May 2026

CA-Obs

Uprooting Cameroon’s elite timber networks

Uprooting Cameroon's elite timber networks

...Forest cover loss hit a record high in Cameroon in 2023, as more than 200 000 hectares disappeared that year, equating to roughly one football pitch every two minutes. This report investigates the pri...

Posted on 22 May 2026

Eco-Solve

Observing, learning and restoring: Community responses to environmental crime

...Observing, learning and restoring...

Posted on 21 May 2026

APA-Obs, EUR-Obs

Chasing Ireland’s ‘pot of gold’: How illicit brokers profit from Vietnamese migration routes

...Pham’s* journey from Vietnam to Europe began in debt. After selling her business and borrowing thousands from loan sharks, she contacted a môi giới, or broker, to take care of the logistics. For...

Posted on 20 May 2026

Author(s): Giulia D’Amico, Peter Smith

APA-Obs

China-linked scam operations pivot to Africa, presenting new challenges for at-risk countries

...In April, the Chinese Embassy in Madagascar issued a public statement warning people about the risk of being tricked into forced labour in online scam operations in the country. The announcement follo...

Posted on 19 May 2026

Author(s): Jason G Tower

APA-Obs

Turning the tide together: Confronting the Pacific methamphetamine crisis

Turning the tide together

...The Pacific is facing a rapidly escalating methamphetamine crisis with growing implications for public health, community safety and regional security. A new policy paper published by the Pacific Secu...

Posted on 15 May 2026

Author(s): Virginia Comolli, Nicholas Thomson

NAS-Obs, SEE-Obs

A smuggling route reawakens: Movement surges between eastern Libya and Crete

...Over the course of two days in mid-April, Greek authorities rescued more than 300 migrants off the coast of Crete, highlighting the growing resurgence of a long-dormant smuggling corridor between east...

Posted on 14 May 2026

Author(s): Fatjona Mejdini, Matt Herbert