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WEA-Obs

Mapping drug markets in West Africa

... Synthetic drug and cocaine markets represent an urgent and complex public health, security, and human rights challenge in West Africa. The evidence base regarding their scope, scale, and associated ...

Posted on 11 Mar 2026

Gold Watch, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, AMA-Obs

Illicit gold trafficking to Venezuela and the implications of US action

Shifting Amazon gold flows

...Illicit gold flows in the Amazon Basin are shifting. Over the past two years, Venezuela has emerged as a regional destination for illicit gold, reversing established smuggling patterns and reshaping s...

Posted on 10 Mar 2026

Author(s): Marcena Hunter, Gabriel Funari, Sophia Pickles

31 Mar

APA-Obs

Policing partnerships in the Pacific

...China’s law enforcement engagement in the Pacific Islands has expanded significantly in scope, ambition and political sensitivity over the past decade. What began largely as infrastructure support a...

Posted on 10 Mar 2026

Author(s): Virginia Comolli, Martin Thorley

APA-Obs

Online child sexual exploitation in the Pacific and why Fiji’s numbers matter for the region

...The Pacific is often celebrated for its strong community values, rich cultures and close-knit family networks – social structures that play an important role in protecting children offline. But as i...

Posted on 10 Mar 2026

Author(s): Virginia Comolli

EUR-Obs

European Drug Trends Monitor

... This is the first report of the GI-TOC European Drug Trends Monitor, an output of our Observatory of Organized Crime in Europe. This series of bulletins will track developments in European drug ma...

Posted on 09 Mar 2026

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

Changing drug policy in an unstable world: 10 years on from the UNGASS on drugs

...The international community is preparing for the 2026 Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), which will take place in Vienna from 9–13 March, amid profound geopolitical uncertainty. With overlapping gl...

Posted on 06 Mar 2026

Author(s): John Collins

ESA-Obs

How border criminal economies are drawing Chad further into Sudan’s conflict

...For nearly three years, the fighting in Sudan has largely remained within its borders, even as the conflict has drawn regional support. But the effects have been more far-reaching, with millions of re...

Posted on 06 Mar 2026

Author(s): Alexandre Bish

CA-Obs

Africa’s chance to reshape the world

...The African Union’s 39th Ordinary Session, which took place in Ethiopia from 14–15 February, concluded with a resounding assertion that the continent should take unified action in the face of a wo...

Posted on 05 Mar 2026

Author(s): Nathalia Dukhan

16 Mar

UNTOC

The GI-TOC at the Global Fraud Summit

...The Global Fraud Summit 2026 comes at time when fraud and related cyber scam operations have become one of the most alarming evolutions of transnational organized crime. In many places they have becom...

Posted on 04 Mar 2026

05 Mar

Global Initiative

Will attacks on Iran lead to a regional recalibration of organized crime?

...The US and Israeli military operation launched on 28 February against Iran threatens to profoundly reshape security dynamics across the region. In response to the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on ...

Posted on 27 Feb 2026

Global Organized Crime Index, EUR-Obs

Global Organized Crime Index 2025 – Europe Overview

Global Organized Crime Index 2025 - Europe Overview

...Levels of organized crime have remained stable across Europe while increasing in most other regions, according to the 2025 Global Organized Crime Index. Europe remains the second-lowest continent for ...

Posted on 25 Feb 2026

NAM-Obs

A year into the FTO designation

...A year into the FTO designation...

Posted on 21 Feb 2026

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