UN-TOC Watch

Hard drive needed to fix computer crime

...The UN must engender greater consensus and collaboration if it wishes to respond effectively to the challenge of cybercrime.  One of the earliest references to criminals taking advantage of the vu...

Posted on 11 Jun 2018

Sanctions and organized crime

UN Security Council Brings out the Big Stick in Libya

...The UN’s sanctions this week against six kingpins involved in human smuggling and trafficking markets will send out a strong message to transnational criminal networks. On 7 June, the UN Security...

Posted on 08 Jun 2018

Author(s): Mark Micallef

MMFU

Targeting the online illegal wildlife trade through digital payment systems

Cut the Purse Strings

...There has been startling growth in the online illegal wildlife trade (IWT), and broad recognition of the need to apply financial and anti-money-laundering tools to the fight against environmental crim...

Posted on 07 Jun 2018

Author(s): Rupert Horsley

MMFU

Responding to the illicit wildlife trade online: what do we know?

Digitally Enhanced Responses

...This brief sets out to describe how our understanding of the problems posed by the online IWT, and our responses to it, have evolved. It measures the progress made in exposing the threat posed by the ...

Posted on 07 Jun 2018

Author(s): Simone Haysom

Private Sector, RESPECT

Battling Human Trafficking: A Scrutiny of Private Sector Obligations under the Modern Slavery Act

Battling Human Trafficking

...Battling Human Trafficking: How Far Have We Come and Where Do We Go From Here? A Scrutiny of Private Sector Obligations under the Modern Slavery Act by Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo Overview Mod...

Posted on 29 May 2018

Global Initiative

Understanding contemporary human smuggling as a vector in migration

Understanding contemporary human smuggling as a vector in migration

...This guide analyses in depth the dynamics and trends of the human-smuggling industry, focusing on migration from and through the Middle East, North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa to Europe. Its goal ...

Posted on 22 May 2018

Author(s): Tuesday Reitano, Lucia Bird Ruiz-Benitez de Lugo

ENACT

Europe should rethink its policy on Libya’s organised crime problem

...Beyond the ‘migrant crisis’, Europe should recognise the threat posed by illicit markets in Libya. Speaking in Geneva recently, the head of Libya’s National Oil Company, Mustafa Sanalla, laun...

Posted on 17 May 2018

Author(s): Mark Micallef