UN Cyberwatch, UN-TOC Watch

UN Cybercrime Negotiations: Industry roundtable 29 March 2022

UN Cybercrime negotiations

...As part of a collaboration between the UK government and the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (henceforth ‘GI-TOC’) to promote civil society engagement in the UN negotiation...

Posted on 09 May 2022

Latinoamérica y el Caribe, CAM-Obs

Lethal Negotiations: Political dialogue between gangs and authorities in El Salvador

Lethal Negotiations

...This policy note provides a brief background on gangs in El Salvador and the attempts of Salvadoran authorities to negotiate with them to reduce violence in the streets. It analyzes a March 2022 gang...

Posted on 06 May 2022

Global Initiative

GI-TOC appoints Dalia Ghanem to its Africa Board

...The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) is pleased to announce the appointment of a new member to its Africa Board. Dr Dalia Ghanem PhD, a Senior researcher/analyst at th...

Posted on 04 May 2022

Global Organized Crime Index, Latinoamérica y el Caribe

At a crossroads of crime

...The combination of its geo-strategic location, deep-seated corruption and poor resilience mechanisms has laid the ground for illicit economies to flourish, making Central America one of the world's pr...

Posted on 29 Apr 2022

Author(s): Josefina Salomón

Resilience Fund, ESA-Obs

Assessing Resilience to Organized Crime at the Community Level

Assessing Resilience to Organized Crime at the Community Level

...This report analyzes the findings from a six-month project to create and test a framework for analyzing resilience to organized crime at a community level in conflict and fragile contexts. This resea...

Posted on 27 Apr 2022

Author(s): Summer Walker, Américo Maluana, Jimia Yusuf, Sharon Nyokabi, Gregory Onyango

Global Organized Crime Index

A drop in the ocean? Organized crime dynamics in Pacific Island countries

...Although Pacific Island countries do not experience high levels of criminality, shifts in transnational dynamics are changing the region's organized crime landscape. More needs to be done to address t...

Posted on 22 Apr 2022

Author(s): Tess Newton Cain