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Commodity, currency, crime: How illicit gold markets are outpacing global responses

Commodity, currency, crime

...Illicit gold is one of the most consequential criminal markets in the world. The term ‘illicit gold’ applies to a wide range of activities and products: gold that is illicitly mined, processed or ...

Posted on 08 Jun 2026

Author(s): Marcena Hunter, Sophia Pickles

EUR-Obs, WEA-Obs

The Arconian operation

...On 1 May 2026, Spanish authorities seized more than 30 tonnes of cocaine from the Arconian, a Comoros-flagged dry bulk vessel intercepted off the coast of Western Sahara — the largest single cocaine...

Posted on 08 Jun 2026

Author(s): Josef Skrdlik, Sarah Fares, Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo

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Josef Skrdlik

Journalist

...Josef Skrdlik is an investigative journalist based in West Africa. His reporting has exposed environmental crimes, fraudulent public contracts and politicians’ hidden assets, while also examining th...

Posted on 08 Jun 2026

11 Jun

Resilience Fund, AR-Obs, CAM-Obs, HT-Obs, NAM-Obs

¿De tal palo, tal astilla? Familias y gobernanza criminal

...Este seminario web presenta hallazgos recientes de Colombia y Centroamérica e ilustra cómo la perspectiva de género es central para comprender el funcionamiento de las economías ilícitas. La conv...

Posted on 03 Jun 2026

SEE-Obs

Legal entry, irregular exit: The growing role of the Western Balkans in human smuggling into the EU

...In late 2025, a group of Chinese nationals arrived in Belgrade on a commercial flight. Their papers were in order and their passports stamped; their entry was entirely legal. Within days, however, the...

Posted on 02 Jun 2026

Author(s): Dardan Kocani

Resilience Fund

Why UN engagement matters for strengthening state resilience to organized crime

...Grassroots action to global impact...

Posted on 01 Jun 2026

Author(s): Isabel Diaz

Eco-Solve

Artificial Intelligence for environmental crime enforcement

...Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly emerging as an important tool in environmental crime enforcement. Environmental crimes, such as illegal logging, mining, fishing, wildlife trafficking and waste...

Posted on 28 May 2026

CA-Obs

Uprooting Cameroon’s elite timber networks

Uprooting Cameroon's elite timber networks

...Forest cover loss hit a record high in Cameroon in 2023, as more than 200 000 hectares disappeared that year, equating to roughly one football pitch every two minutes. This report investigates the pri...

Posted on 22 May 2026

01 Jun

Global Initiative

The Global Initiative at the 35th CCPCJ

... The 35th session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) is taking place at a time of historic change, with transnational organized crime on the rise....

Posted on 21 May 2026

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Peter Smith

TV journalist, Scotland Correspondent for ITV News.

...I have reported on the biggest stories in recent years, including Scotland's independence referendum, the Calais 'jungle' and people smuggling, paedophile gangs grooming vulnerable children, the Shore...

Posted on 21 May 2026

Eco-Solve

Observing, learning and restoring: Community responses to environmental crime

...Observing, learning and restoring...

Posted on 21 May 2026

APA-Obs, EUR-Obs

Chasing Ireland’s ‘pot of gold’: How illicit brokers profit from Vietnamese migration routes

...Pham’s* journey from Vietnam to Europe began in debt. After selling her business and borrowing thousands from loan sharks, she contacted a môi giới, or broker, to take care of the logistics. For...

Posted on 20 May 2026

Author(s): Giulia D’Amico, Peter Smith

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