Global Initiative

Transformative Technologies: How digital is changing the landscape of organized crime

Transformative Technologies:

... Advances in technology are continuing to transform the illicit-trade landscape as dramatically as they are changing its legal counterpart, particularly as the increasing dominance of online trade ...

Posted on 29 Jun 2020

Author(s): Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo, Thi Hoang, Julia Stanyard, Summer Walker, Simone Haysom

Global Initiative

Arrest of journalist Samira Sabou ‘illegal’ – RSF

... The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime supports calls for the release of Nigerien journalist Samira Sabou. Samira Sabou, a journalist and blogger, was arrested on 10 June in N...

Posted on 18 Jun 2020

CovidCrimeWatch

Police reform needed for local and transnational crime

... The violence sparking the protests in the United States and elsewhere around the world has prompted widespread calls to overhaul policing. This could have a major impact on local policing. But it go...

Posted on 18 Jun 2020

Author(s): Walter Kemp, Mark Shaw

Assassination Witness, Global Strategy, Protecting Politics, Resilience Fund, APA-Obs, CAM-Obs, ESA-Obs, NAS-Obs, SA-Obs, SEE-Obs, UKR-Obs, WEA-Obs

Faces of Assassination – The book

Faces of assassination

...Organized crime is indiscriminate in who it targets. Not only are conflicts between, and within, criminal groups often settled with violence, but such violence also regularly claims the lives of innoc...

Posted on 15 Jun 2020

ESA-Obs

A triangle of vulnerability – changing patterns of illicit trafficking off the Swahili coast

A triangle of vulnerability

... A triangle of vulnerability for illicit trafficking is emerging as a key geographic space along Africa’s eastern seaboard – the Swahili coast. At one apex of this triangle is Zanzibar, a major...

Posted on 15 Jun 2020

Author(s): Alastair Nelson

CovidCrimeWatch

#CovidCrimeWatch – n°12

... Over the past 12 weeks, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) has closely monitored the impact of COVID-19 on the illicit economy and organized crime. We launched our s...

Posted on 12 Jun 2020

Author(s): Lyes Tagziria

CovidCrimeWatch, UN-TOC Watch

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

... Two key areas that have been impacted by – and have impacted –  the context of COVID-19 are environmental crime and the question of decarceration. The postponed UN Congress on Crime Preventio...

Posted on 12 Jun 2020

Author(s): Ian Tennant, Summer Walker