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Sethasiri Tienpiragul

...Dr Sethasiri Tienpiragul is a legal scholar and public prosecutor based in Thailand. She has degrees from Durham University, and a PhD from Thammasat University in Thailand, focusing on the applicatio...

Posted on 03 Sep 2025

APA-Obs

Sex creation in the digital era

...The adult content industry has undergone a dramatic transformation in the digital era. Online content platforms such as OnlyFans and Fansly have made it easier for individuals to produce, distribute a...

Posted on 03 Sep 2025

Author(s): Sethasiri Tienpiragul

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Leon Castellanos-Jankiewicz

Senior Researcher, Asser Institute for International and European Law

...Leon Castellanos-Jankiewicz is a senior researcher in international law at the Asser Institute for International and European Law, and supervisor of the International Law Clinic on Access to Justice f...

Posted on 01 Sep 2025

WEA-Obs

What do two recent incidents reveal about Guinea-Bissau’s cocaine politics?

A murder and a shooting

...Guinea-Bissau has long been a central cog in the international cocaine trafficking system. Between 2005 and 2007, consignments of cocaine that had washed up on the country’s beaches was used to pain...

Posted on 29 Aug 2025

EAS-Obs

High-level corruption and state capture in the South Caucasus

Shadow states

...Over the last 35 years, the South Caucasus has undergone profound economic and geopolitical transformations. Yet beneath these changes, certain systems of governance have persisted, cultivating and en...

Posted on 28 Aug 2025

Author(s): Liam O’Shea

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Liam O’Shea

...Dr Liam O’Shea is a political and security analyst specializing in anti-corruption, security sector reform and the politics of institutional change, with expertise in Eurasia. He has led projects on...

Posted on 27 Aug 2025

APA-Obs

Scam empire strikes back: Crackdowns on Myanmar’s scam industry have had little material impact

...The Wang Xing incident – where a Chinese influencer was trafficked into and held hostage in multiple scam compounds on the Myanmar–Thailand border in early 2025 – attracted widespread attentio...

Posted on 27 Aug 2025

Author(s): Jason G Tower

Global Organized Crime Index

Organized crime in detention

...Prison reform has become increasingly urgent, at a time when the link between the criminal justice system's shortcomings and organized crime has become more apparent. With approximately 11.5 million p...

Posted on 25 Aug 2025

Author(s): Ioana Vasi

02 Sep

SEE-Obs, WEA-Obs

Under the radar: Western Balkans’ cocaine operations in West Africa

Under the radar

...Since 2019, some of the world’s most dangerous and sophisticated organized crime groups, rooted in the Western Balkans, but also major players in drug markets across Europe and Latin America, have e...

Posted on 25 Aug 2025

Author(s): Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo, Sasa Djordjevic, Fatjona Mejdini

25 Aug

North America Strategic Platform on Organized Crime, UN-TOC Watch, HT-Obs

Tackling firearms trafficking in Latin America and the Caribbean: A regional approach to combat violence

Tackling firearms trafficking in Latin America and the Caribbean

...In Mexico City, on February 25–26, and in Geneva, on August 25, 2025 – The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), in partnership with the Centro de Investigación y Doce...

Posted on 22 Aug 2025

Author(s): Paddy Ginn, Cecilia Farfán-Méndez, Romain Le-Cour-Grandmaison, Leon Castellanos-Jankiewicz

APA-Obs

The business of exploitation: The economics of cyber scam operations in Southeast Asia

The business of exploitation:

...Cyber scam operations in Southeast Asia are part of a vast and evolving illicit industry that relies on trafficking, financial fraud, corruption and professional money laundering networks. This policy...

Posted on 19 Aug 2025

Author(s): Kristina Amerhauser, Audrey Thill

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Audrey Thill

...Audrey Thill is an independent analyst focusing on conflict, illicit economies and environmental crime. Previously, she worked for six years with an international NGO in Cambodia and Myanmar, conducti...

Posted on 18 Aug 2025

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