UN-TOC Watch

Agreements and Disagreements on the Road to Kyoto

...This briefing explores the issues being negotiated before the 14th UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. The GI-TOC has seen a draft of the congress declaration, and here we summarize ...

Posted on 09 Dec 2020

Author(s): Ian Tennant

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Jenni Irish-Qhobosheane

...Jenni Irish-Qhobosheane was a researcher at the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. She had a bachelor of arts degree from the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Durban).  She had work...

Posted on 08 Dec 2020

IASOC

OC24: The Podcast

... The first ever 24 hour Conference on Global Organized Crime (#OC24) took place in 10-11 November 2020 and it was an unprecedented opportunity for interaction on the topics of criminal gr...

Posted on 08 Dec 2020

SEE-Obs

South Eastern Europe Risk Bulletin #3

Civil Society Observatory to counter organized crime in South Eastern Europe

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF sq Shqip Observatory of Illicit Economies in South Eastern Europe Issue 3 December–January 2020–2021 Summary highlights Profiting from the pandemic: COVID-19 and corrupt...

Posted on 08 Dec 2020

ESA-Obs

Trafficking Malagasy Tortoises

Trafficking Malagasy Tortoises

...While the trafficking of Madagascan tortoises may at first seem an obscure and inconsequential problem, this study shows that an extensive regional network of criminal and corrupt actors consistently ...

Posted on 03 Dec 2020

Author(s): Alastair Nelson, Jacqueline Cochrane

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Linh Dang

Associate, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime

...Linh has recently joined the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime Secretariat as an associate, and will be supporting the Anticipating & Disrupting (A&D) program on environ...

Posted on 01 Dec 2020

Sanctions and organized crime

Snapping back against Iran: The case of the Al Bari 2 and the UN arms embargo

Snapping back against Iran:

...In June 2020, a dhow named Al Bari 2 was seized in the Gulf of Aden by Saudi naval forces while reportedly transporting a consignment of arms from the Persian Gulf to Houthi insurgents in Yemen. The ...

Posted on 30 Nov 2020

Author(s): Jay Bahadur

APA-Obs

Crossing the line: Geopolitics and criminality at the India-Myanmar border

Crossing the line:

...The remote and isolated north-eastern region of India is a classic example of a forgotten frontier. Lying adjacent to Myanmar, it is an insurgency-ridden area with a vibrant smuggling economy that con...

Posted on 27 Nov 2020

Author(s): Prem Mahadevan

Assassination Witness, CAM-Obs

Julio Valdivia: Writing trapped in a lawless hell

... Julio Valdivia was worried; more than ever before. He tripled his meals and the noises of cars outside his house woke him up. The agony lasted three days. Then he was killed. Julio Valdivia was worr...

Posted on 25 Nov 2020
07 Dec

ESA-Obs

‘Une plaque tournante’: Madagascar’s changing role in regional illicit markets

...Madagascar is playing a growing and pivotal role in the dynamics of regional illicit markets, and wider illicit flows. Madagascar’s biodiversity has long been exploited by well-established environme...

Posted on 25 Nov 2020

Author(s): Alastair Nelson, Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo, Julia Stanyard

26 Nov

ENACT

Culture in Ruins: The illicit trade in cultural property in North and West Africa

...The illicit trade in cultural property – cultural goods and looted archaeological objects, highly valued on international markets – is one of the greatest threats to heritage in North and West Afr...

Posted on 20 Nov 2020

Author(s): Julia Stanyard, Simone Haysom, Katie A. Paul

Drug Policy

The changing business of cannabis

...The legalization of cannabis markets in several countries provides a natural experiment to test how illicit economies and organized crime may adapt to the regulatory changes. Cannabis laws around the...

Posted on 20 Nov 2020

Author(s): John Collins

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