CovidCrimeWatch

Cheap oil changes the cost of organized crime

... The coronavirus pandemic is affecting every aspect of global society – including organized crime. One effect of the pandemic with ramifications for organized crime is the reduced demand for oil. ...

Posted on 12 Jun 2020

Author(s): Gabriel Moberg

Assassination Witness, CovidCrimeWatch

Killings in the wake of COVID

... Amid the pandemic, organized-crime groups have targeted human-rights defenders, journalists and environmental activists. The Assassination Witness initiative aims to draw attention to homicides at...

Posted on 11 Jun 2020

Author(s): Ana Paula Oliveira

CovidCrimeWatch

Parallel contagion: Is mafia entrepreneurship exploiting the pandemic?

... Chapter I - 22 April 2020 Concerned with reports of the Mafia's exploitation of the current global crisis, the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) has had the privileg...

Posted on 11 Jun 2020

Author(s): Sergio Nazzaro, Lyes Tagziria, Ruggero Scaturro

ESA-Obs, NAS-Obs, WEA-Obs

Africa and the Global Illicit Economy: The Podcast

... Every two weeks, we will be looking at corruption, illicit financial flows, gangs, the role of foreign corporations, the political economy of crime, and the enabling environment that has made Afri...

Posted on 09 Jun 2020

Author(s): Lindy Mtongana

ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin #8

Civil Society Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa Issue 8 May–June 2020 Summary highlights Civil-society action is reshaping the illicit charcoal trade in no...

Posted on 08 Jun 2020

Assassination Witness, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Murdered for her journalism – María Elena Ferral Hernández

... ‘In this new political landscape, the fight for power will bring carnage … Without a doubt, there will be more political crimes in this region,’ wrote María Elena Ferral on 12 March. Her fo...

Posted on 05 Jun 2020

Author(s): Miguel Ángel León Carmona

CovidCrimeWatch, UN-TOC Watch

Covid-19 and crime: A response develops at the UN

Covid-19 and crime

... During the pandemic, the dynamics of illicit markets have been evident, as we have analyzed in other publications of our COVID Crime Watch series. Cybercrime activities have expanded as lives move de...

Posted on 03 Jun 2020

Author(s): Summer Walker

CovidCrimeWatch

#CovidCrimeWatch – n°11

... In the debate and analysis concerning the interaction between the coronavirus pandemic and organized crime, the focus has largely been on illicit economies and the criminal actors that operate in the...

Posted on 03 Jun 2020

Author(s): Lyes Tagziria

CovidCrimeWatch

Fighting corruption during the coronavirus

... To dive deeper into the emerging relationship between corruption and the COVID-19 crisis response, the Global Initiative spoke with Heather Marquette, professor of development politics at the Univers...

Posted on 03 Jun 2020

Author(s): Heather Marquette

CovidCrimeWatch

A double-edged sword

... Governments around the world are deploying military forces to support the fight against the pandemic. But there are crucial lessons to be learnt from other military interventions during peacetime eme...

Posted on 03 Jun 2020

Author(s): David Danelo, Mark Ronan