UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

Canada: A rare beacon of light for the UNTOC Review Mechanism

...Canada has become the first country in the world to publish its responses to the self-assessment questionnaire for the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and the P...

Posted on 25 Jul 2023

Author(s): Darren Brookbanks

Crime & Conflict, SEE-Obs, UKR-Obs

Cash is king: Impact of the Ukraine war on illicit financial flows in South Eastern Europe

Cash is king

...Illicit cross-border financial flows – estimated at US$1–1.6 trillion a year globally – are harming economic development on a national and global level. This is particularly true when such flows...

Posted on 24 Jul 2023

Author(s): Vanya Petrova

Gold Watch, NAS-Obs, WEA-Obs

Labour-trafficking in ASGM: Assessing risks in the Sahara-Sahel goldfields

Labour-trafficking in ASGM

...This report assesses risks of exploitation and labour trafficking in gold-mining areas in northern Niger and northern Mali. It examines the modalities of recruitment and employment, the risks they pos...

Posted on 21 Jul 2023

Author(s): Alice Fereday

Global Organized Crime Index, UN - Security and Rights, UN-TOC Watch, NAS-Obs

UN Security Council Illicit Economies Watch

...The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) researches the political economy of organized crime in many countries, including those on the United Nations Security Council’s a...

Posted on 21 Jul 2023

Sustainable Development Goals, UN - Security and Rights, UN-TOC Watch, NAS-Obs

Illicit economies and peace and security in Libya

Illicit economies and peace and security in Libya

...Libya has been a key focus of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) since the country’s 2011 revolution. A June 2023 UNSC meeting on Libya focused on the country’s political process, the need...

Posted on 18 Jul 2023

Author(s): Matt Herbert, Rupert Horsley, Emadeddin Badi

Crime & Conflict, EUR-Obs, SEE-Obs, UKR-Obs

Disruption or displacement? Impact of the Ukraine war on drug markets in South Eastern Europe

Disruption or displacement?

...Recent studies conducted by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) show that the war in Ukraine may displace exis...

Posted on 17 Jul 2023

Author(s): Ruggero Scaturro

MMFU, UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC, Wildlife Watch, APA-Obs, ESA-Obs

Challenges in international law enforcement cooperation in wildlife crime in Asia and Africa

Uniting the response?

...The consequences of wildlife trafficking go beyond the threat it poses to ecological integrity and the survival of many wild species. Wildlife trafficking is also a public health threat, through its r...

Posted on 10 Jul 2023

Author(s): Alastair Macbeath, Julia Stanyard

UN Cyberwatch

The rise and fall of the Conti ransomware group

...On 25 February 2022, a message appeared on a darknet website run by the cybercriminal syndicate known as Conti. The message pledged allegiance and support for the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukrain...

Posted on 27 Jun 2023

Author(s): Jack Meegan-Vickers