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Jonathan Tottman

Independent Consultant

...Thirty years’ public service, ten years living and working multi agency diplomatic environment in the Middle East. Moved in 2017 to the business advisory and big data analytics sector in MENA, and s...

Posted on 20 Mar 2022

UN Cyberwatch, UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch

Cyber, fire and fury

...Delegates at the UN in New York have wrapped up a two-week (28 February-11 March) meeting to kick off the negotiations for a global cybercrime treaty. Overshadowed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine â...

Posted on 17 Mar 2022

Author(s): Ian Tennant, Summer Walker

23 Mar

Extortion in Central America, CAM-Obs

Reporting and prosecuting extortion in Italy

...Extortion is a pervasive crime in a number of regions around the world, particularly in Central America. What can we learn from the Italian experience? Addiopizzo is an Italian civil society organiza...

Posted on 17 Mar 2022

Global Organized Crime Index, MMFU, Wildlife Watch

A moving target

...Amid growing concern over the human damage inflicted on our ecosystems, the role of organized crime as an enabler of the illegal trade in wildlife species has attracted increased interest. Targeted po...

Posted on 14 Mar 2022

Author(s): Steven Broad

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Daniela Rea

Journalist, Pie de Página

...Daniela Rea is a Mexican journalist who has also taken her inquiries and professional sensitivity to other fields such as photojournalism, documentaries, non-fiction narratives, as well as other liter...

Posted on 13 Mar 2022
17 Mar

WEA-Obs

Organised crime in Africa: Multi-stakeholder dialogue addressing transnational organised crime in West Africa

... This meeting will bring together experts and practitioners from countries in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to discuss organised crime. Participants will examine emerging t...

Posted on 10 Mar 2022

Global Initiative

An end to plastic pollution?

...The passing of a United Nations resolution in early March to curb plastic pollution is a historic step towards protecting the environment. It remains to be seen whether challenges, not least the prese...

Posted on 09 Mar 2022

Author(s): Virginia Comolli

15 Mar

Drug Policy, UN Reform

Legalizing the Drug Wars: A Regulatory History of UN Drug Control

...This event will feature a presentation from Dr John Collins (GI-TOC Director of Academic Engagement) of his December 2021 book on the history of UN Drug Control. The book is the first fully-focussed ...

Posted on 08 Mar 2022

ENACT, Global Organized Crime Index, ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin #23

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 23 Jan-Feb 2022 Expand allSummary highlights Investigating potential sources of arms flows to al-Shabaa...

Posted on 07 Mar 2022
09 Mar

NAS-Obs

Intersections of Organized Crime and Conflict in North Africa and the Sahel

...In fragile states, groups of armed individuals are often key to the growth of criminal economies, which, reciprocally, play a significant role in prolonging and deepening conflict. Some of the countri...

Posted on 04 Mar 2022

Author(s): Summer Walker, Peter Tinti, Alexandre Bish, Emadeddin Badi

Global Initiative

Making a difference against serious and organized crime in Pakistan

...See here the work of Pakistan’s Centre for Governance Research in engaging with the government of Pakistan on the UNTOC Review Mechanism. The organization has taken a leading role in promoting civ...

Posted on 03 Mar 2022

UN Cyberwatch, UN-TOC Watch

GI-TOC Director’s statement to the first session of the UN Ad Hoc Committee on cybercrime

...On 1 March 2022, Director Mark Shaw delivered a statement on behalf of GI-TOC to the opening session of the UN Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the ...

Posted on 02 Mar 2022
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