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Annual report 2023

Annual report

...In September 2013, the GI-TOC was conceived as a platform to articulate a vision for more effective responses to organized crime. This 10th birthday year was an opportunity not to celebrate, but rathe...

Posted on 07 Aug 2024

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Forced to work: Labour exploitation in the Western Balkans

Forced to work:

...Labour exploitation is a pressing concern in the Western Balkans, affecting both local and migrant workers. Between 2018 and 2023, there were 767 confirmed and potential victims of labour exploitation...

Posted on 07 Aug 2024

Author(s): Sasa Djordjevic, Vanja Petrovic

Cities & Illicit Economies

Urbanization and organized crime

...Urbanisation is reshaping our world at an unprecedented pace, particularly in the Global South. However, rapid and unmanaged urban growth is creating fertile ground for organized crime, posing signifi...

Posted on 06 Aug 2024

Author(s): Antônio Sampaio

Extortion in Central America, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, CAM-Obs

Community resilience to extortion

...This report seeks to understand how communities in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras build and sustain their resilience to extortion, especially in light of state-led anti-extortion measures under e...

Posted on 02 Aug 2024

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Dejan Milovac

Posted on 31 Jul 2024

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Barry MacKillop

Deputy Director, Operations for Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)

...Deputy Director, Operations for Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC)...

Posted on 31 Jul 2024

Global Organized Crime Index

Armenia’s mixed-bag reformism

...Since the victory of ‘people power’ in 2018, when Armenians peacefully ousted the government of Serzh Sargsyan, Armenia has remained resolute in deepening democracy and sustaining reform. Focusing...

Posted on 30 Jul 2024

Author(s): Richard Giragosian

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Richard Giragosian

Founding Director, Regional Studies Center

...Richard Giragosian is the founding director of the Regional Studies Center, an independent think tank in Yerevan, Armenia. He has over 35 years of policy experience in the fields of security and i...

Posted on 30 Jul 2024

01 Oct

Global Organized Crime Index, Global Strategy

Organised Crime and Security Policy: Understanding the Threat to Design Better Responses 2024

...This course provides participants with the skill set and analytical tools to better understand organized crime, its impact (particularly harms), and how to address it more effectively especially when ...

Posted on 29 Jul 2024

Crime & Conflict, HT-Obs

Violence and Resilience in Haiti: Risk Bulletin #1

Observatory of Violence and Resilience in Haiti

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF Click here to view the Global Organized Crime Index fr Français Observatory of Violence and Resilience in Haiti Issue 1 July 2024 About this Risk Bulletin Welcome to the fi...

Posted on 24 Jul 2024

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Stefanos Bouinias

Finance Officer, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

...Stefanos-Dimitrios Bounias holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a focus on Accounting & Finance from the Athens University of Economics and Business and is currently pursuin...

Posted on 23 Jul 2024

UN Cyberwatch, UN Reform

Cybercrime treaty risks a world of UN-sanctioned online control

...From 29 July to 9 August 2024, state representatives will reconvene at the United Nations in New York to try to agree to a new convention on cybercrime. Members had intended to conclude negotiations a...

Posted on 22 Jul 2024

Author(s): Summer Walker

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