24 May

SEE-Obs

Consultative meeting on illicit financial flows in the Western Balkans

...Illicit financial flows (IFFs) are eroding the rule of law, governance and state institutions in the Western Balkans. IFFs hamper the region’s economic development, as they deprive the licit economy...

Posted on 23 May 2023

Crime & Conflict, EAS-Obs

The devil’s not-so-new psychoactive substance

...‘It seems they have found a way to get the stuff from Russian occupied territories into Ukraine through the front line – and it’s in the order of tonnes,’ explained a Ukrainian police officer ...

Posted on 23 May 2023

Author(s): Ruggero Scaturro

25 May

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, CAM-Obs

La sociedad civil y el combate al tráfico de armas en Centroamérica

...De acuerdo con el Índice Global de Crimen Organizado de GI-TOC, el tráfico de armas y municiones es el tercer mercado criminal más prevalente. Los flujos de armas lícitas e ilícitas a través de ...

Posted on 18 May 2023

UN - Security and Rights, UN Cyberwatch, UN-TOC Watch

UN ‘Cybercrime Treaty: Legal and human rights safeguards

UN 'Cybercrime Treaty'

...In March 2023, the GI-TOC held a roundtable to consult experts in human rights, digital rights, and criminal justice on the legal and human rights safeguards in the consolidated negotiation document p...

Posted on 18 May 2023

Author(s): Ana Paula Oliveira, Summer Walker

SEE-Obs

South Eastern Europe Risk Bulletin #15

Observatory of illicit economies in South Eastern Europe

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF Observatory of Illicit Economies in South Eastern Europe Issue 15 May 2023 Summary highlights Serbia’s controversial draft law on policing has shortcomings for combating o...

Posted on 17 May 2023
22 May

UN-TOC Watch

The Global Initiative at the 32nd CCPCJ

...The UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) will take place in Vienna from 22 to 26 May 2023. At the CCPCJ, UN member states come together every year to negotiate resolutions on...

Posted on 15 May 2023

Cities & Illicit Economies, SEE-Obs

Catch me if you can: Illicit flows through Balkan airports

Catch me if you can

...This report applies the ‘hotspots’ approach that has been used by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime’s (GI-TOC) Observatory of Illicit Economies in South Eastern Europe ...

Posted on 15 May 2023

Author(s): Ruggero Scaturro

03 Jul

Crime & Terrorism

Summer School on illicit trade

...Money laundering. Terrorist financing. Drug trafficking. Arms smuggling. Tax havens. Human smuggling and the modern-day slave trade. These are not just abstract terms, but billion-dollar industries fo...

Posted on 11 May 2023

Crime & Conflict, EAS-Obs

Entrepreneurial newcomers: Russian-speaking migrant smugglers on the US southern border

...Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted thousands of Russians to flee their country for fear of political persecution. Migration flows from Central Asia, particularly Uzbekistan, have also surged....

Posted on 11 May 2023

Author(s): Yulia Vorobyeva

11 Jul

Crime & Terrorism, WEA-Obs

Reserve assets: Armed groups and conflict economies in the national parks of Burkina Faso, Niger and Benin

Reserve assets

...Violent extremist groups have been expanding from their primary bases in Mali and Burkina Faso towards the southern and coastal states of West Africa. One of the main corridors for this expansion has ...

Posted on 09 May 2023

Author(s): Antônio Sampaio, Abdel Aziz Mossi, Eleanor Beevor, Emmanuel N’koué Sambieni

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Emmanuel N’koué Sambieni

Lecturer and Researcher, Université de Parakou, Benin

...Emmanuel N Sambieni is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Université de Parakou, Benin....

Posted on 09 May 2023

UN - Security and Rights, UN Cyberwatch, UN-TOC Watch

UN cybercrime treaty Ad Hoc Committee: Circle remains unsquared

...As negotiations on the UN treaty advance, there are looming questions for the upcoming zero draft. Lack of consensus on key points continues to define the formative stages. The UN Ad Hoc Committee ne...

Posted on 08 May 2023

Author(s): Ian Tennant, Summer Walker

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