CovidCrimeWatch, Sustainable Development Goals, UN-TOC Watch

Adapting Sustainable Development Goal 16 to crime under COVID

Posted on 13 Jul 2021

Author(s): Mark Shaw, Tuesday Reitano

UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

Tackling corruption as an enabler for environmental crime

Posted on 16 Jun 2021

Author(s): Giulia D’Amico

Wildlife Watch, APA-Obs

The Chaimat case: Illegal logging, organized crime and money laundering in Thailand

The Chaimat case

Posted on 28 May 2021

UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

Vienna counter-crime diplomacy held hostage to political disagreements

Posted on 28 May 2021

Author(s): Ian Tennant

Assassination Witness, Drug Policy, ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

East and Southern Africa Risk Bulletin #18

Civil Society Observatory of Illicit Economies in Eastern and Southern Africa

...grows. Madagascar is also home to significant illegal markets in natural resources, from logging to gemstones and endangered species. Mauritius and the Seychelles have been identified as conduits for illicit financial flows. Corruption is a major facilitator of drugs markets and other forms of organized crime and erodes the governance of the island states. This special issue of the Risk Bulletin aims to cast light on ho...

Posted on 27 May 2021

Crime & Conflict, Protecting Politics, NAS-Obs, WEA-Obs

Déby’s death will fuel instability and criminal opportunity in the Sahel

Posted on 23 Apr 2021

Author(s): Alexandre Bish

CovidCrimeWatch

#CovidCrimeWatch – Autumn

Posted on 09 Dec 2020

Author(s): Lyes Tagziria

UN-TOC Watch

Agreements and Disagreements on the Road to Kyoto

Posted on 09 Dec 2020

Author(s): Ian Tennant

Drug Policy

The changing business of cannabis

...y changes. We should be prepared for many unpredicted outcomes, which will provide insights into potential regulatory changes around other criminal economies, such as other drug markets, wildlife and illicit financial flows, to name a few. How criminal organizations adapt to these changed regulations will also determine the net social welfare gains and losses that come with legalization. And while individual jurisdictio...

Posted on 20 Nov 2020

Author(s): John Collins

UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch

The transnational organized crime agenda at the 75th UN General Assembly

...e and passes resolutions that instruct the work of the UN. Most TOC issues are handled by the Third Committee on Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Issues, but some are discussed in other committees. (illicit financial flows, for example, are addressed in the Second Committee on Economic and Financial issues, and illicit arms trafficking in the First Committee on Disarmament and International Security.) The Third Comm...

Posted on 12 Oct 2020

Author(s): Summer Walker