Global Organized Crime Index, EUR-Obs

Clan criminality: Germany’s ignored transnational organized crime risk?

...Clan criminality is perceived as a worrying trend in Germany. Law enforcement needs to engage new strategies to successfully combat these structures, an ‘external’ criminal threat within the count...

Posted on 16 Sep 2022

Author(s): Jessica Gerken

WEA-Obs

Grim outlook for Guinea-Bissau elections: The fall and rise of Seidi Bá

Grim outlook for Guinea-Bissau elections

...The surprise conviction in 2020 of businessman Braima Seidi Bá, arguably Guinea-Bissau’s most prominent cocaine trafficking kingpin according to law enforcement investigations, was heralded by the ...

Posted on 13 Sep 2022

Global Organized Crime Index, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Cuaderno de trabajo Índice global de crimen organizado

Cuaderno de trabajo del Índice global de crimen organizado

...According to the Global Organized Crime Index 2021, the Americas is ranked as the third continent with the highest levels of criminality. Although the region shows high levels of criminal actors and n...

Posted on 09 Sep 2022

UN-TOC Watch

New resources for civil society to engage with the UNTOC review mechanism

New resources for civil society to engage with the UNTOC review mechanism

...Access the online tool here Nearly 20 years after the adoption of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC), in 2018 the Conference of the Parties (COP) established a revi...

Posted on 06 Sep 2022

Author(s): Darren Brookbanks, Ana Paula Oliveira

APA-Obs

Sihanoukville: a hub of environmental crime convergence

Sihanoukville

...The streets and beaches of Sihanoukville, Cambodia’s infamous party town, are under-discussed areas in the global effort against transnational organized crime. Sihanoukville is known to most readers...

Posted on 02 Sep 2022

Author(s): Nicholas Farrelly, Alice Dawkins, Patrick Deegan