WEA-Obs

The Crime Paradox: Illicit markets, violence and instability in Nigeria

The Crime Paradox:

...The impact of illicit markets on violence and instability in Nigeria is not one-dimensional: illicit markets do drive instability and violence, but they can also serve, in some contexts, to maintain a...

Posted on 11 Apr 2022

Author(s): Alexandre Bish, Kingsley L. Madueke, Kelechukwu Iruoma, Dr Godwin Onuoha, Lawan Danjuma Adamu, Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo

Gold Watch, UKR-Obs

Going for Gold: Russia, sanctions and illicit gold trade

Going for Gold

...A stranglehold of sanctions imposed by the UK, US and EU on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine has greatly restricted the ability of Moscow and other sanctioned entities to access and move finan...

Posted on 07 Apr 2022

Author(s): Marcena Hunter

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Nicholas Thomson

...Nicholas Thomson is a public health epidemiologist with over 20 years’ experience working in the Greater Mekong. He works with policing agencies to examine opportunities to align policies and practi...

Posted on 07 Apr 2022
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Mouhamadou Kane

Analyst, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

...Mouhamadou joined the GI-TOC West African Observatory in November 2021. Over the past 4 years he specialized in transnational organized crime and illicit markets issues, covering extensively Sénégal...

Posted on 06 Apr 2022
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Deo Gumba

Civil Society Coordinator for the West Africa Observatory (WEA-Obs), Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

...Deo joined the GI-TOC in August 2021 as a consultant working on regional research on the impact of cattle rustling on stability in West Africa, with a special focus on Mali and Nigeria. Apart from hit...

Posted on 06 Apr 2022
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Ioannis Vlassis

Analyst, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

...Ioannis joined the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime in April 2022 as an Analyst for the South Eastern Europe Observatory and supporting the Global Strategy against TOC. Ioann...

Posted on 06 Apr 2022
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Dardan Kocani

Field Coordinator for Kosovo for the South Eastern Europe Observatory (SEE-Obs), Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

...Dardan joined the GI-TOC in March 2022 as Field Coordinator for Kosovo for the South Eastern Europe Observatory. Dardan holds a degree in Management, Economics and Statistics from Rochester Institute ...

Posted on 06 Apr 2022
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Almedina Dodic

Project Assistant for the South Eastern Europe Observatory (SEE-OBs), Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

...Almedina Dodic joined the GI-TOC in March 2022 as Project Assistant for the South Eastern Europe Observatory (SEE-OBs). Almedina started her career in the CSO sector as a youth activist at the NGO New...

Posted on 06 Apr 2022
26 Apr

CovidCrimeWatch, APA-Obs

Trafficking of Contagion – Environmental Crime and Biological Threats in the Greater Mekong

Trafficking of Contagion

...Most of the vast number of commodities derived from wildlife and other environmental resources that are traded illicitly across the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) have direct or indirect implications ...

Posted on 06 Apr 2022

Author(s): Hai Thanh Luong, Nicholas Thomson

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, AR-Obs

Clan del Golfo: The fall of ‘Otoniel’

...In 2012, Colombian news outlet Semana obtained a video from the country's law enforcement showing a handcuffed man called Daniel ‘El Loco’ Barerra – a drug trafficker who had been arrested in Ve...

Posted on 04 Apr 2022

Author(s): Jack Meegan-Vickers

UN Cyberwatch, UN-TOC Watch

Guidance notes on a draft convention on cybercrime

Guidance notes on a draft convention on cybercrime

...The formal process at the United Nations to negotiate a global cybercrime convention began in 2022. States and multistakeholders are requested to submit substantive inputs ahead of each convening. On ...

Posted on 31 Mar 2022
07 Apr

Global Organized Crime Index, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Metodologías para la paz: Midiendo el crimen organizado en América Latina

...This event will discuss the Global Organized Crime Index published by Global Initiative as a research tool for peace and conflict studies. You can read the report here. ...

Posted on 31 Mar 2022
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