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Bodean Hedwards

Senior Lecturer, Monash University

...Bodean Hedwards is a senior lecturer at Monash University. Her research focuses on responses to slavery, human trafficking and irregular migration, primarily in South and South East Asia....

Posted on 09 Mar 2023

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, CAM-Obs

Diez años de vigilantes

Diez años de vigilantes

...Ten years of vigilantes The Mexican autodefensas In February 2013, a couple hundred armed men gathered in the heart of the Tierra Caliente region in western Mexico. They called themselves Auto...

Posted on 07 Mar 2023

Author(s): Romain Le-Cour-Grandmaison

22 Mar

Crime & Conflict, WEA-Obs

The silent threat: Kidnappings in Burkina Faso

The silent threat:

...Kidnappings of nationals in Burkina Faso reached record-breaking levels in 2021 and continued at an unprecedented scale throughout 2022. Non-state armed groups are the primary perpetrators, particular...

Posted on 07 Mar 2023

Author(s): Flore Berger

13 Mar

Global Initiative

The Global Initiative at the 66th CND

...From 13 to 17 March 2023, civil society organizations and UN member states will gather in Vienna – and in virtual events – for the annual UN Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), hosted by the UN Of...

Posted on 27 Feb 2023

SEE-Obs

South Eastern Europe Risk Bulletin #14

Observatory of illicit economies in South Eastern Europe

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF mk Македонски sq Shqip sr Srpski Observatory of Illicit Economies in South Eastern Europe Issue 14 February 2023 Summary highlights An increasing number of Albania...

Posted on 24 Feb 2023
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Alicia Solari

President of Diálogo Ciudadano and Director of Anti-Trafficking Perú

...Alicia Solari is a lawyer and the founder of the Anti-Trafficking Perú, a programme of the NGO Diálogo Ciudadano of which she is President. Prior to this, Alicia was Director of Fundamental Right...

Posted on 24 Feb 2023

Crime & Conflict, Sanctions and organized crime

Hezbollah’s helping hand? Organized crime amid Lebanon’s energy crisis

...As Lebanon’s energy shortage reaches unprecedented levels, criminal groups are profiting. Notably, Hezbollah is stepping in to bolster its image and expand its influence by evading Western sanctions...

Posted on 24 Feb 2023

Author(s): Laura Adal, Sarah Fares

09 Mar

Global Organized Crime Index, EUR-Obs

Criminalità e resilienza: L’Italia vista dal Global Organized Crime Index

...The scope and scale of organized crime are of increasing concern to the international community, not least because of the destructive impact it has on security and society. Links between criminal acto...

Posted on 22 Feb 2023

Sanctions and organized crime, UKR-Obs

New front lines: Organized criminal economies in Ukraine in 2022

New front lines

...Before February 2022, Russian and Ukrainian organized crime formed the strongest criminal ecosystem in Europe. Having developed along similar lines in the 1990s, Russian and Ukrainian criminal groups...

Posted on 22 Feb 2023

Global Organized Crime Index, Sanctions and organized crime, CSA-Obs

The Taliban, terrorism and transnational organized crime

...The international community’s withdrawal of support for Afghanistan rests on the false hope that a Taliban-led state will not pose any major threat to the world. Yet the assumption that the Taliban ...

Posted on 20 Feb 2023

Author(s): Arian M Sharifi

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Arian M Sharifi

...Dr Arian Sharifi is a lecturer and associate research scholar at Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs. He has over 15 years of high-level policy experience, including ...

Posted on 20 Feb 2023
23 Feb

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, CAM-Obs

Gobernanza punitiva y derechos humanos en Centroamérica

...La gobernanza punitiva, entendida como la respuesta de las autoridades de los Estados para contener la gobernanza criminal, ignorando el estado de derecho y coartando los derechos humanos de los ciuda...

Posted on 17 Feb 2023
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