UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch

The gender agenda: A conversation on gender and global crime policy

...Our latest UN and Organized Crime podcast episode explores the need for gender equality and gender sensitive policies and programmes in national and international responses to organized crime, and how...

Posted on 11 Sep 2024

Author(s): Ian Tennant

Eco-Solve

Corruption at the heart of Indonesia’s state-owned tin mining sector that is wrecking the environment.

...The Indonesian islands of Bangka and Belitung have come under the spotlight for illegal tin mining, linked to what is potentially one of the biggest corruption scandals in the country’s history.  ...

Posted on 11 Sep 2024

Author(s): Hans Nicholas Jong

SA-Obs

Western Cape gang monitor – Issue 3

Western Cape gang monitor

...In the last quarter, hundreds of shootings have rocked gang territories in the Western Cape. Between June and July alone, some 200 people were shot and killed or wounded. Aggressive pushes for territo...

Posted on 04 Sep 2024

UN Cyberwatch

Decoding the message in the Telegram case

...In late August, the arrest and preliminary charging of Telegram’s founder, Pavel Durov, by the French judicial authorities kicked off a high-stakes game of geopolitics that will shape how government...

Posted on 03 Sep 2024

Author(s): Ian Tennant

Drug Policy, EUR-Obs

Why is drug-related violence spilling over into Germany?

...In early July 2024, in a rented, empty warehouse in Germany, a local drug dealer recorded himself showing off his stash of half a tonne of cannabis during a livestream, broadcasting his haul – entru...

Posted on 02 Sep 2024

Author(s): Daniel Brombacher, Sarah Fares

Eco-Solve, APA-Obs

ECO-SOLVE South East Asia and Oceania regional consultation

ECO-SOLVE South East Asia and Oceania regional consultation

...A group of investigative journalists, environmental defenders, and anti-corruption activists from South East Asia and Oceania met in Bangkok, Thailand, in February 2024 to discuss the role of corrupti...

Posted on 29 Aug 2024

SEE-Obs

South Eastern Europe Risk Bulletin #19

Observatory of illicit economies in South Eastern Europe

...Risk Bulletin Download PDF Click here to view the Global Organized Crime Index bcms BCMS mk Македонски sq Shqip Observatory of Illicit Economies in South Eastern Europe Issue 19 August 2024 ...

Posted on 28 Aug 2024

EUR-Obs

The Italian recipe: Civil society a key building block of resilience to organized crime

...Italy's commitment to fighting organized crime has been a key aspect of its political agenda ever since the mafia killings of judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino. The country is international...

Posted on 27 Aug 2024

Author(s): Ruggero Scaturro

Global Organized Crime Index

The blurred line between villains and victims

...The Global Organized Crime Index 2023 paints a bleak picture: criminality is increasing but resilience to it is not. Building resilience to organized crime needs more than a robust criminal justice in...

Posted on 21 Aug 2024

Author(s): Marika McAdam