Resilience Fund, NAM-Obs

How organized crime shapes Mexico’s media landscape

...The spread of fake news and the rise of artificial intelligence have placed journalists around the world at an unprecedented crossroads. Trust in factual information has declined, while fake news has ...

Posted on 28 Sep 2026

Author(s): Siria Gastelum Felix, Darwin Franco

Global Initiative

French Polynesia’s parallel drug flows

...This article draws on interviews with the French national police, the gendarmerie, France’s anti-drugs office (OFAST), customs, the French navy and local civil society organizations, including the F...

Posted on 28 Sep 2026

Author(s): Virginia Comolli

NAS-Obs

Human smuggling and trafficking in North Africa and the Sahel – 2026

Human smuggling and trafficking in North Africa and the Sahel

...North Africa and the Sahel have long been central to migrant movement, human smuggling and trafficking, with their importance growing steadily since the late 1990s. Today, the two regions are critical...

Posted on 25 Sep 2026

EUR-Obs

Latin American organized crime groups are expanding their presence in Europe

...On 15 July 2026, German authorities dismantled a methamphetamine laboratory in Ludwigsfelde, a small city in the state of Brandenburg, around 10 kilometres south of Berlin. With a population of around...

Posted on 23 Sep 2026

Author(s): Daniel Brombacher

Global Organized Crime Index, AR-Obs

Mercados criminales, instituciones y respuestas de Panamá y Costa Rica

Crónica de una erosión anunciada

...Durante las últimas tres décadas, Centroamérica ha sufrido una presión constante del crimen organizado, sobre todo mediante la violencia vinculada a disputas territoriales, al tráfico de drogas y...

Posted on 23 Sep 2026

Author(s): Andrés Aponte, Edgardo Sandoval Ramsey

UN Cyberwatch

The present and future of the UN cybercrime convention

Whose treaty is it anyway?

...The United Nations Convention against Cybercrime (Hanoi convention) is a widely signed new legal instrument that was agreed by consensus at a time of geopolitical fragmentation. The potential benefits...

Posted on 18 Sep 2026

Author(s): Ian Tennant, Helena Yixin Huang

AR-Obs, HT-Obs

Sexual and gender-based violence as a tool of criminal governance in Haiti

...Women and girls are on the front line of Haiti’s security crisis. Across gang-controlled areas, the threat of rape, sexual exploitation and abuse by armed groups has become an everyday reality, maki...

Posted on 18 Sep 2026

Author(s): Dorly Castaneda, María Antonia Cote

Global Initiative

Vietnamese smuggling and trafficking operations to Europe

Brokered Journeys

...In July 2025, eight people received a combined sentence of nearly 80 years in prison following investigations into cannabis farms across the UK, where Vietnamese migrants were exploited to run cultiva...

Posted on 17 Sep 2026

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

APA-Obs

Chinese-origin scam syndicates and their reach into South Asia

Criminal Convergence?

...Global awareness of the increase in industrial-based cyber scam operations in mainland South East Asia, which use trafficked individuals and forced criminality to target the global population with sop...

Posted on 16 Sep 2026

Author(s): Jason G Tower, Radha Barooah