Sanctions and organized crime

New targets, old tools: The G7 ups momentum around the use of sanctions against migrant smugglers and human traffickers

...Human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants continue to dominate political debates and multilateral discourse as leaders search for new tools and strategies to address these crimes. In this contex...

Posted on 11 Jul 2025

Author(s): Matt Herbert

Drug Policy, EUR-Obs

European Drug Trends Monitor

European Drug Trends Monitor

... This is the first report of the GI-TOC European Drug Trends Monitor, an output of our Observatory of Organized Crime in Europe. This series of bulletins will track developments in European drug ma...

Posted on 11 Jul 2025

SEE-Obs

Money laundering in the Western Balkans

Washing away crime

...Money laundering remains a key enabler of organized crime in the Western Balkans, allowing criminal networks to legitimize illicit profits and integrate them into the formal economy. This report exami...

Posted on 09 Jul 2025

Author(s): Anesa Agovic

EAS-Obs

Dnipro: The front line of crime

Dnipro

...Dnipro has long played a pivotal role in Ukraine’s political and economic development. Today, the city stands at another crossroads, as a key site for understanding how organized crime has evolved u...

Posted on 04 Jul 2025

APA-Obs

Organized child sexual exploitation

Organized child sexual exploitation

...Child sexual exploitation and abuse (CSEA) and online CSEA (OCSEA) lurk in some of the darkest corners of the criminal universe. Trends in South East Asia suggest that, besides gratification-driven in...

Posted on 03 Jul 2025

Author(s): Virginia Comolli

ESA-Obs

Hired gangs unleashed on demonstrators in Nairobi

...The deployment of organized criminal gangs by politicians to counter peaceful protests in Nairobi in June has once again raised the spectre of violence in Kenya ahead of the 2027 general elections, th...

Posted on 01 Jul 2025

Author(s): Ken Opala

Crime & Conflict, Geocriminality

The long arm of Kigali: Rwanda’s use of organized crime for geopolitical interests 

...The agreement signed on 27 June 2025 between the DRC and Rwanda represents an opportunity to make progress in resolving the M23 crisis in eastern DRC. However, the US administration’s success in spo...

Posted on 01 Jul 2025

Author(s): Zobel Behalal

Eco-Solve, UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch, UNTOC

A new Protocol for the UNTOC? A guidance note for the 1st meeting of the new Intergovernmental Expert Group on crimes that affect the environment

A new Protocol for the UNTOC?

...In October 2024, Brazil, France and Peru tabled a resolution at the 12th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) for a new int...

Posted on 27 Jun 2025

Author(s): Ian Tennant, Simone Haysom, Tiphaine Chapeau