SA-Obs

Western Cape gang monitor – Issue 2

Western Cape gang monitor

...Since the last issue, gang violence in the Western Cape has continued unabated, fuelled by continuing gang fragmentation. Between October 2023 and the end of February 2024, our monitoring team profile...

Posted on 28 Mar 2024

UN Cyberwatch

Hitting Pause: The unfinished story of the UN Cybercrime negotiations

Hitting pause

...The attempt by the United Nations (UN) to develop a treaty to address cybercrime – or crimes committed online – has been put on pause. At the February 2024 concluding session of the Ad Hoc Commit...

Posted on 27 Mar 2024

Author(s): Ana Paula Oliveira, Summer Walker

HT-Obs

Violence in Haiti: A continuation of politics by other means?

...Haiti has been plunged into an unprecedented crisis since gangs began attacking the capital, Port-au-Prince, on 29 February 2024. This has had dramatic humanitarian consequences and direct political r...

Posted on 25 Mar 2024

Author(s): Romain Le-Cour-Grandmaison

Eco-Solve

ECO-SOLVE Africa regional consultation

ECO-SOLVE Africa regional consultation

...On 23 November 2023, a regional expert consultation on exposing elite protection and corruption in environmental crime in Africa was organized as part of the ECO-SOLVE project, a new global programme ...

Posted on 20 Mar 2024

UN - Security and Rights, UN-TOC Watch

Organized Crime and the Security Council: Analytical Tool

2000-2024: Charting Organized Crime on the UN Security Council Agenda

...The UN Security Council (UNSC) continues to track the detrimental role that organized crime, illicit flows and markets, and criminal actors are playing in conflict zones. We initially analyzed all UN...

Posted on 19 Mar 2024

Sustainable Development Goals, UN - Security and Rights, UN-TOC Watch

Illicit economies in Afghanistan under the Taliban

Illicit economies in Afghanistan under the Taliban

...More than two years after the Taliban’s return to power in Afghanistan on 15 August 2021, the country is once again high on the UN’s agenda. The levels of conflict-related violence may have signif...

Posted on 18 Mar 2024

Author(s): Maria Khoruk

Eco-Solve, Global Organized Crime Index

Better data and technology cooperation are needed in environmental crime responses

...Digital data is playing an increasingly prominent role in societies around the world, fuelled by expanding internet penetration, the growing reach of social media platforms and the ubiquity of technol...

Posted on 18 Mar 2024

Author(s): Alastair Macbeath

WEA-Obs

What does the recent escalation of mass abductions in Nigeria tell us?

...A spate of abductions in Nigeria is heightening tensions in the country. What has happened, who is responsible and what does it say about where Nigeria is headed?  Since the end of February, over 50...

Posted on 15 Mar 2024

Author(s): Kingsley L. Madueke, Lawan Danjuma Adamu, Ladd Serwat