UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch

All roads lead to Rome: Towards a coordinated multilateral response to organized crime and corruption

All roads lead to Rome:

...This year, Italy holds the presidency of the G20, and continues to chair its G20 Anti-Corruption Working Group. One of the priorities of the group for the year is to draw attention to the importance o...

Posted on 20 May 2021

Author(s): Ian Tennant

Resilience Fund

Rethinking Resilience: The role of women in community responses to organized crime

...The role of women in resilience responses to organized crime is generally unexplored, and this paper is intended as the beginning of a narrative that seeks to deepen understanding of this dynamic. Th...

Posted on 20 May 2021

Author(s): Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo

RESPECT, SEE-Obs

Exploited in plain sight: An assessment of commercial sexual exploitation of children and child protection responses in the Western Balkans

Exploited in plain sight:

...The Western Balkan Six (WB6) have historically not been at the centre of attention and research investigating commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC). Despite a growing body of literature on...

Posted on 18 May 2021

Author(s): Livia Wagner, Kristina Amerhauser, Ruggero Scaturro, Thi Hoang

Gold Watch, ESA-Obs

Illicit gold markets in East and Southern Africa

Illicit gold markets in East and Southern Africa

...Today, the artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) sector is governed by increasingly comprehensive legal and regulatory frameworks, and is reliant on transnational supply chains that connect rur...

Posted on 16 May 2021

Author(s): Marcena Hunter, Mukasiri Sibanda, Ken Opala, Julius Kaka, Lucy P. Modi