UN Cyberwatch, UN-TOC Watch

The final call: UN member states adopt a new cybercrime treaty

The final call

...The UN has finalized a treaty on cybercrime, after two years of negotiations. While the governments seemed to feel a sense of closure and accomplishment after years of negotiating this treaty, it did ...

Posted on 12 Sep 2024

Author(s): Summer Walker, Ana Paula Oliveira

UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch

The gender agenda: A conversation on gender and global crime policy

...Our latest UN and Organized Crime podcast episode explores the need for gender equality and gender sensitive policies and programmes in national and international responses to organized crime, and how...

Posted on 11 Sep 2024

Author(s): Ian Tennant

Eco-Solve

Corruption at the heart of Indonesia’s state-owned tin mining sector that is wrecking the environment.

...The Indonesian islands of Bangka and Belitung have come under the spotlight for illegal tin mining, linked to what is potentially one of the biggest corruption scandals in the country’s history.  ...

Posted on 11 Sep 2024

Author(s): Hans Nicholas Jong

SA-Obs

Western Cape gang monitor – Issue 3

Western Cape gang monitor

...In the last quarter, hundreds of shootings have rocked gang territories in the Western Cape. Between June and July alone, some 200 people were shot and killed or wounded. Aggressive pushes for territo...

Posted on 04 Sep 2024

UN Cyberwatch

Decoding the message in the Telegram case

...In late August, the arrest and preliminary charging of Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov, by the French judicial authorities kicked off a high-stakes game of geopolitics that will shape how government...

Posted on 03 Sep 2024

Author(s): Ian Tennant

Drug Policy, EUR-Obs

Why is drug-related violence spilling over into Germany?

...In early July 2024, in a rented, empty warehouse in Germany, a local drug dealer recorded himself showing off his stash of half a tonne of cannabis during a livestream, broadcasting his haul – entru...

Posted on 02 Sep 2024

Author(s): Daniel Brombacher, Sarah Fares