Development Dialogue

Dialogue on Organized Crime: Illicit markets in an era of connectivity

Dialogue on Organized Crime:

... This paper documents the key organized-crime themes and challenges discussed at the 10th iteration of the Development Dialogue series held in November 2019. The Dialogue examined two pr...

Posted on 17 Dec 2019

SEE-Obs

Growing like weeds? Rethinking Albania’s culture of cannabis cultivation

Growing like weeds?

... The cultivation of cannabis in Albania goes back several decades, but experienced a peak around 2016, at which point the police undertook an eradication operation in an attempt to curtail the country...

Posted on 16 Dec 2019

Author(s): Fatjona Mejdini, Kristina Amerhauser

ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin #2

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 2 November 2019 Summary highlights A new pricing survey into Tanzania’s heroin market shows that hero...

Posted on 12 Dec 2019

UN-TOC Watch

Vienna calling: A briefing to the incoming head of the UNODC

Vienna calling:

... This briefing examines the transnational organized crime (TOC) challenges facing the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) as its new executive director – Egypt’s Minister of Social Solidarity Gha...

Posted on 11 Dec 2019

Author(s): Ian Tennant

UN-TOC Watch

UNTOC review mechanism: One year to go

... A year ago, we reported on the adoption of the review mechanism to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC). It is now a year until the launch of the mechanism, at the next Con...

Posted on 10 Dec 2019

Author(s): Ian Tennant

JIED

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development Vol.1 – Issue 3

JIED Vol 1 - Issue 3

... --- John Collins is the Editor-in-Chief of JIED...

Posted on 29 Nov 2019

Author(s): John Collins

NAS-Obs

The Political Economy of Migrant Detention in Libya: Understanding the players and the business models

The Political Economy of Migrant Detention in Libya:

... The overall objective of this study is to understand the political economy of migrant detention in Libya, in both the official and non-official detention systems. The study was launched in October...

Posted on 29 Nov 2019

Author(s): Arezo Malakooti

NAS-Obs

Shifting sands: Libya’s changing drug trafficking dynamics on the coastal and desert borders

Shifting sands:

... This report provides an assessment of drug smuggling routes and dynamics in Libya and aims to establish areas for further in-depth research. It draws on a mixed-methods approach, which includes th...

Posted on 28 Nov 2019

Author(s): Mark Micallef

ENACT

African illicit financial flows: designing and prioritising responses

African illicit financial flows:

... IFFs are difficult to detect and prosecute when regulatory systems lack integrity, transparency, and accountability. Africa is estimated to lose billions of dollars annually to illicit financial f...

Posted on 26 Nov 2019

Author(s): Marcena Hunter