UN-TOC Watch

Ongoing uncertainty and an unrelenting agenda: the UNODC in 2026

...January is not yet over and 2026 is already shaping up to be a remarkable year in geopolitics. The multilateral system is facing spiralling political and financial crises, and the UN in Vienna is no e...

Posted on 23 Jan 2026

Author(s): Ian Tennant

Global Initiative

A climate of insecurity: Climate change and organized crime in cities

A climate of insecurity

...There is widespread academic and policy recognition that climate change is transforming and redefining global security and development. Global efforts to tackle this challenge have occupied national g...

Posted on 22 Jan 2026

Author(s): Antônio Sampaio

Resilience Fund

Disappearances by organized crime

Disappearances by organized crime

...Disappearances have far-reaching consequences, affecting not only the victims but also their families and communities. The emotional toll is immense, leaving families in a state of uncertainty and gri...

Posted on 22 Jan 2026

Author(s): Sarah Fares

HT-Obs

Peace operations in Haiti: Lessons from two decades of UN engagement

Peace operations in Haiti: Lessons from two decades of UN engagement

...This report examines United Nations and international responses to the evolving dynamics of transnational organized crime in Haiti over the past two decades, and how these dynamics have contributed to...

Posted on 21 Jan 2026

Author(s): Sophie Rutenbar

EAS-Obs

People as ammunition: The structures behind Russian and Belarusian weaponized migration

People as ammunition

...Weaponized migration, which is sometimes called instrumentalized migration or coercive engineered migration, is by no means a new challenge, but it is one that is arguably easier to apply in the moder...

Posted on 20 Jan 2026

Author(s): Mark Galeotti

Eco-Solve, Gold Watch

UN minerals resolution must spark a more ambitious effort to curb illegal exploitation in the extractives sector

...The Colombia–Oman resolution, an important step towards achieving a global consensus on the responsible management of the planet’s minerals and metals, was passed at the seventh UN Environment As...

Posted on 15 Jan 2026

Author(s): Sophia Pickles

APA-Obs

Minimizing risks of criminal exposure to scam compounds in corporate supply chains

Minimizing risks of criminal exposure to scam compounds in corporate supply chains

...Highly organized cyber fraud in South East Asia is widely run from so-called scam compounds: purpose-built or modified buildings that meet the precise operational requirements of this criminal industr...

Posted on 13 Jan 2026

Author(s): Lindsey Kennedy, Nathan Paul Southern

WEA-Obs

The implications of the US air strikes in Nigeria

...The US military offensive on Christmas Day in Nigeria – described by President Donald Trump as ‘a powerful and ​deadly strike ‌against ISIS Terrorist Scum’ – may ultimately achieve the opp...

Posted on 09 Jan 2026

Author(s): Kingsley L. Madueke, Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo