Global Organized Crime Index, EUR-Obs

Spain battles drug wave amid growing violence

...The killing of two police officers by suspected drug traffickers in Cádiz, Spain, in February 2024 has highlighted the growing vulnerability of the country as one of the main entry points for drugs i...

Posted on 09 Apr 2024

Author(s): Eva Vilà

Drug Policy, UN-TOC Watch

A clear breakthrough, but an uncertain future for drug policy at the Commission on Narcotic Drugs

...At the 67th session of the UN’s Commission on Narcotic Drugs (CND), member states met to take stock of progress made in implementing the 2019 Ministerial Declaration on drug policy commitments and t...

Posted on 09 Apr 2024

Author(s): Ian Tennant, Ana Paula Oliveira, Jason Eligh, John Collins, Mira Sztanojev

Global Initiative

The LockBit takedown

...On 20 February 2024, the UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) posted a series of tweets in the style of a countdown clock before releasing a video revealing that it had taken control of the entire infra...

Posted on 04 Apr 2024

Author(s): Jack Meegan-Vickers

Assassination Witness, Global Organized Crime Index, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, CAM-Obs

Journalism still deadly in Mexico

...Four years after the murder of María Elena Ferral, being a journalist in Mexico remains a deadly business. The international community must step up its support for much-needed reform. As a journalis...

Posted on 28 Mar 2024

Author(s): Siria Gastelum Felix

Sustainable Development Goals, UN - Security and Rights, UN Cyberwatch, UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

UN General Assembly recognizes a day to focus on transnational organized crime

...The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution designating 15 November as the International Day for the Prevention of and Fight against All Forms of Transnational Organized Crime. The initiative was...

Posted on 28 Mar 2024

Author(s): Summer Walker, Ian Tennant

SA-Obs

Western Cape gang monitor – Issue 2

Western Cape gang monitor

...Since the last issue, gang violence in the Western Cape has continued unabated, fuelled by continuing gang fragmentation. Between October 2023 and the end of February 2024, our monitoring team profile...

Posted on 28 Mar 2024

UN Cyberwatch

Hitting Pause: The unfinished story of the UN Cybercrime negotiations

Hitting pause

...The attempt by the United Nations (UN) to develop a treaty to address cybercrime – or crimes committed online – has been put on pause. At the February 2024 concluding session of the Ad Hoc Commit...

Posted on 27 Mar 2024

Author(s): Ana Paula Oliveira, Summer Walker

HT-Obs

Violence in Haiti: A continuation of politics by other means?

...Haiti has been plunged into an unprecedented crisis since gangs began attacking the capital, Port-au-Prince, on 29 February 2024. This has had dramatic humanitarian consequences and direct political r...

Posted on 25 Mar 2024

Author(s): Romain Le-Cour-Grandmaison