Eco-Solve

A plastic problem: European waste destined for Türkiye

A plastic problem

...Since 2018, Türkiye has become the primary destination for Europe’s plastic waste, absorbing more than half of the EU’s total plastic waste exports. This shift follows tightening regulations in A...

Posted on 04 Jun 2025

Author(s): Lauren Young

Gold Watch

Mapping Ghana’s expanding gold sector

Mapping Ghana's expanding gold sector

...Ghana is one of the world’s leading gold producers, and artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASGM) plays a crucial role in the country’s economy and the livelihoods of its people. Many miners tu...

Posted on 04 Jun 2025

Author(s): Marcena Hunter, Gideon Ofosu-Peasah

SEE-Obs

Neighbours of conflict: Arms trafficking in Türkiye, Bulgaria and Greece

Neighbours of conflict

...More than 90% of firearms in Türkiye are unlicensed. In Greece, over half of all weapons are unregistered. And in Bulgaria, Turkish-manufactured gas guns transit legally before being converted into l...

Posted on 02 Jun 2025

Author(s): Aleksandar Srbinovski, Trpe Stojanovski

SA-Obs

Western Cape gang monitor – Issue 5

Western Cape gang monitor

...The past quarter has seen major incidents of taxi and gang-related violence, concentrated in areas such as Vrygrond, Hanover Park and Ottery. Our research team continually gathers and maps granular da...

Posted on 30 May 2025

APA-Obs

Compound crime: Cyber scam operations in Southeast Asia

Compound crime

...Cyber scam operations have surged across Southeast Asia since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, evolving into a transnational organized crime crisis of staggering proportions. In this report, we exp...

Posted on 29 May 2025

Crime & Conflict, UN - Security and Rights

Peacekeeping in retreat: Rethinking how to deal with organized crime in conflict settings

...Peacekeeping is in crisis. Despite a dramatic rise in violent conflicts in many parts of the world, the United Nations has not deployed a new peace mission since 2014. Several large operations have be...

Posted on 28 May 2025

Author(s): Walter Kemp

Drug Policy, Global Organized Crime Index

The digital drug revolution: How online markets are reshaping global illicit trade

...In early 2025, a Europol-backed operation took down two of the world’s largest cybercrime forums. The platforms, Cracked and Nulled, had rapidly amassed over 10 million users, and facilitated crimin...

Posted on 27 May 2025

Author(s): Camilla Silvi Marchini

Drug Policy

Fentanyl and border lines

Fentanyl and border lines

...The synthetic opioid crisis has reshaped the landscape of organized crime, public health, and security across North America. Drawing on the expert dialogue held in April 2025, this report explores cro...

Posted on 22 May 2025

Eco-Solve

Third security and development dialogue on environmental crime: Advancing multilateral and multi-stakeholder responses’

Third security and development dialogue on environmental crime

...This international conference was convened in recognition of environmental crimes as threat multipliers to an increasingly fractured and vulnerable planet. They pose threats to not only the environmen...

Posted on 21 May 2025

NAS-Obs

How potential US migrant expulsions to Libya could feed into the country’s criminal economy and instability

Deporting to danger

...On 7 May 2025, reports emerged that the US was preparing to deport irregular migrants to Libya. While no deportations had occurred as of mid-May, and the US government has neither confirmed nor denied...

Posted on 20 May 2025

Author(s): Matt Herbert

Resilience Fund

Resilience in action: Civil society’s role in preventing and combating organized crime

Resilience in action

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Posted on 16 May 2025

Author(s): Siria Gastelum Felix, Patricia Neves