Crime & Conflict, Sustainable Development Goals, UN - Security and Rights, UN-TOC Watch

Illicit Economies and the UN Security Council

Illicit economies and the UN Security Council

...The Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC) researches the political economy of organized crime in many countries, including those on the United Nations Security Council’s a...

Posted on 18 Apr 2023

Author(s): Summer Walker

Assassination Witness, ESA-Obs, SA-Obs

The business of killing: Assassinations in South Africa

The business of killing

...The 2021 Global Organized Crime Index ranks South Africa as one of the highest-scoring countries in the continent in terms of criminality levels and as the highest-scoring in the southern African regi...

Posted on 12 Apr 2023

Author(s): Rumbidzai Matamba

UN Cyberwatch, UN-TOC Watch

Spring forward: States to review part II of draft cybercrime treaty

Spring forward

...In April 2023, the UN ad hoc committee to elaborate a convention on the ‘criminal misuse of information and communications technology’ will meet for its fifth session to discuss the second half of...

Posted on 11 Apr 2023

Author(s): Summer Walker, Ian Tennant

UN-TOC Watch

The GI-TOC welcomes the publication of a civil society report on the UNTOC’s implementation in Pakistan.

...With the support of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (GI-TOC), Pakistan’s Centre for Governance Research (CGR) has released a landmark report – ‘Pakistan UNTOC Review ...

Posted on 06 Apr 2023

Author(s): Ian Tennant, Darren Brookbanks

Wildlife Watch, ESA-Obs

Convergence of wildlife crime and other forms of transnational organized crime in Eastern and Southern Africa

Convergence of wildlife crime

...The huge growth in wildlife crime during this century has captured headlines, attracted celebrity attention and public interest and generated policy discussions. Narratives have concentrated largely o...

Posted on 05 Apr 2023

Author(s): Alastair Nelson