Extortion in Central America, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, CAM-Obs

Sextorsión: Una nueva manifestación de violencia contra las mujeres basada en género

Sextorsión

...De acuerdo con el informe Una cultura criminal: extorsión en Centroamérica, «la extorsión es tan común en algunas partes de la región, que es ya una característica socioeconómica en la vida di...

Posted on 04 Jun 2021

Author(s): Leslie Sequeira

UN Cyberwatch, UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

Contested domain: UN cybercrime resolution stumbles out of the gate

...On 26 May 2021, a resolution on cybercrime was voted through the United Nations General Assembly. This resolution was mainly organizational, determining the rules and process to debate and possibly dr...

Posted on 02 Jun 2021

Author(s): Summer Walker

JIED, APA-Obs

Call for Papers: Exploring the nexus between human vulnerabilities and environmental crime

...This special issue aims to explore the human impacts (e.g. impacts on livelihoods lives, human rights, freedom of expression etc.) of environmental crime - how people, communities and populations are ...

Posted on 01 Jun 2021

Author(s): Louise Taylor, Virginia Comolli

Wildlife Watch, APA-Obs

The Chaimat case: Illegal logging, organized crime and money laundering in Thailand

The Chaimat case

...Timber smuggling in South East Asia is big business, as the simple act of crossing a border can send the price of some rare wood soaring. Siamese rosewood, for example, can increase in value by up to ...

Posted on 28 May 2021

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

Vienna counter-crime diplomacy held hostage to political disagreements

...The 30th annual session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice was marred by political disputes and chicanery, but offered a glimmer of hope for expert-led discussions in the fu...

Posted on 28 May 2021

Author(s): Ian Tennant

Assassination Witness, Drug Policy, ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin #18

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 18 Apr–May 2021 Summary highlights Bucking the trend: The impact of COVID‑19 on drugs markets in th...

Posted on 27 May 2021

WEA-Obs

Deep-rooted interests: Licensing illicit logging in Guinea Bissau

Deep-rooted interests

...The widespread devastation of Guinea-Bissau’s forests – a process coordinated by the military – was curtailed in April 2015 by the imposition of a five-year moratorium on logging exports. Now, t...

Posted on 21 May 2021