ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin #3

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 3 December–January 2019–2020 Summary highlights Recent high-profile arrests by US and Chinese law-e...

Posted on 07 Jan 2020

Development Dialogue

Dialogue on Organized Crime: Illicit markets in an era of connectivity

Dialogue on Organized Crime:

... This paper documents the key organized-crime themes and challenges discussed at the 10th iteration of the Development Dialogue series held in November 2019. The Dialogue examined two pr...

Posted on 17 Dec 2019

SEE-Obs

Growing like weeds? Rethinking Albania’s culture of cannabis cultivation

Growing like weeds?

... The cultivation of cannabis in Albania goes back several decades, but experienced a peak around 2016, at which point the police undertook an eradication operation in an attempt to curtail the country...

Posted on 16 Dec 2019

Author(s): Fatjona Mejdini, Kristina Amerhauser

ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin #2

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 2 November 2019 Summary highlights A new pricing survey into Tanzania’s heroin market shows that hero...

Posted on 12 Dec 2019

UN-TOC Watch

Vienna calling: A briefing to the incoming head of the UNODC

Vienna calling:

... This briefing examines the transnational organized crime (TOC) challenges facing the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) as its new executive director – Egypt’s Minister of Social Solidarity Gha...

Posted on 11 Dec 2019

Author(s): Ian Tennant

UN-TOC Watch

UNTOC review mechanism: One year to go

... A year ago, we reported on the adoption of the review mechanism to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC). It is now a year until the launch of the mechanism, at the next Con...

Posted on 10 Dec 2019

Author(s): Ian Tennant

JIED

Journal of Illicit Economies and Development Vol.1 – Issue 3

JIED Vol 1 - Issue 3

... --- John Collins is the Editor-in-Chief of JIED...

Posted on 29 Nov 2019

Author(s): John Collins

NAS-Obs

The Political Economy of Migrant Detention in Libya: Understanding the players and the business models

The Political Economy of Migrant Detention in Libya:

... The overall objective of this study is to understand the political economy of migrant detention in Libya, in both the official and non-official detention systems. The study was launched in October...

Posted on 29 Nov 2019

Author(s): Arezo Malakooti