UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

Tackling corruption as an enabler for environmental crime

...Illicit environmental economies are increasingly intertwined with, and facilitated by, corruption. The United Nations General Assembly Special Session (UNGASS) against Corruption took place at the UN ...

Posted on 16 Jun 2021

Author(s): Giulia D’Amico

Global Initiative

Expanding the toolkit to tackle organized environmental crime: Recommendations for the G7 ministers

Expanding the toolkit to tackle organized environmental crime

...This week, the G7 Summit will be held in the United Kingdom. The G7 ministers responsible for climate and the environment met in advance of this week’s meeting to discuss 'building back greener' aft...

Posted on 11 Jun 2021

Author(s): Summer Walker

Global Initiative

Tow Truck Wars: How organized crime infiltrates the transport industry

Tow Truck Wars:

...This policy brief focuses on a small but especially vulnerable type of transportation business that has been prone to infiltration by organized crime groups through violence, intimidation and corrupti...

Posted on 09 Jun 2021

Author(s): Yvon Dandurand

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Protecting Politics, CAM-Obs

Voting amid violence in Mexico

...Mexico’s mid-term elections on 6 June 2021 were marred by violent attacks against candidates, journalists and law enforcement officers. With support from the Global Initiative Against Transnational ...

Posted on 08 Jun 2021

Latinoamérica y el Caribe

Actioning Social Interventions in Jamaica’s National Consensus on Crime

Actioning Social Interventions in Jamaica's National Consensus on Crime

...Since the beginning of the new millennium, successive Jamaican governments – both those formed by the Jamaica Labour Party and the People’s National Party – have devoted considerable political c...

Posted on 07 Jun 2021