Crime Terror Nexus, UN - Security and Rights, UN-TOC Watch

New Security Council resolution recognizes broader links between terrorism and organized crime

Posted on 26 Jul 2019

Author(s): Summer Walker, Tuesday Reitano

Drug Policy

Domestic drug consumption in Ghana

Domestic drug consumption in Ghana

...de has had a far more significant domestic socio-political impact on the region than was first believed, with the increase in drug trafficking undermining governance structures through corruption and illicit financial flows. The lack of available data, however, prevents us from accurately assessing the prevalence of drug use, and our understanding of the characteristics of the domestic market is therefore limited...

Posted on 04 Jul 2019

Global Initiative

Organized Crime and Criminal Networks in Africa

...inal economy (Shaw, 2017). Since the year 2000, the associ­ation between organized crime and Africa’s conflicts, statehood, governance, and society has intensified and consolidated. Illicit trade, illicit financial flows, kleptocracy, and crime have become pernicious drivers for growing income inequality, the prolongation and exac­erbation of conflict, the degradation of the environment, and, consequentially, the fu...

Posted on 29 May 2019

Author(s): Mark Shaw, Tuesday Reitano

Crime & Conflict, Development Dialogue

Dialogue on Organized Crime and Development

Dialogue on Organized Crime and Development

...ue (12–13 February 2019) focused on how organized crime is linked to conflict and state fragility, and how development interventions impact on organized crime. Sessions revolved around responses to illicit financial flows connected to organized crime, the complex and often paradoxical relationship between crime and development, civil society resilience to criminal governance, and forms of state capture by organized-cr...

Posted on 21 Mar 2019

Global Initiative

Policing for Sustainable Development Goals

Posted on 12 Mar 2019

Author(s): Ugljesa (Ugi) Zvekic, John M. Sellar OBE

ENACT, Wildlife Watch

China ban on ivory significant to environmental conservation

Posted on 29 Dec 2018

Sustainable Development Goals

Q and A with Nadia Isler, director of the SDG Lab Geneva

... success of implementing the SDGs. Target 16.4 is no exception to this, as there is notably no indicator that addresses ‘all forms of organised crime’ but rather two indicators focusing solely on illicit financial flows and arms. In our previous interview for UNTOC Watch with Sarah Parker of the Arms Trade Treaty, the arms indicator also came under scrutiny for only addressing ‘seized’ weapons, which may distort...

Posted on 06 Sep 2018

Author(s): Julia Stanyard

Gold Watch, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Private Sector

IOM human trafficking remediation guidelines

...elopment, it is also linked to devastating impacts on the environment, health and human rights. The informal and unregulated nature of the sector also makes it vulnerable to criminal infiltration and illicit financial flows. These complex dynamics have been investigated and analyzed by the Global Initiative in Latin America, Africa and Asia. The IOM guidelines were published against this backdrop – a context in whi...

Posted on 10 Jul 2018

Author(s): Marcena Hunter, Livia Wagner