Environmental crime has become one of the fastest-growing forms of organized crime worldwide. Illegal mining and logging, ...

USP and GI-TOC launch a partnership on organized crime research, with joint work on the PCC, the Amazon and private sector ...

After the three-month internet blackout imposed following the ​​​​​​US–Israeli strike that killed Ayatollah Khamenei in February, Iran emerged a fundamentally different regime. It had learnt the value ...

GI-TOC examines how corruption and organized crime exploit Johannesburg’s city council, undermining governance, ...

William Joffre Alcívar Bautista, known as ‘Negro Willy’, rose to lead the Ecuadorian gang Los Tiguerones while serving as a prison guard. After relocating to Spain in September 2023, he allegedly ...

The 2021 Global Organized Crime Index findings show that large-scale systemic corruption in Mexico has enabled criminal networks to thrive, and more must be done to address this. The Global Organized ...

On 15 September, Ruy Ferraz Fontes, São Paulo’s former police chief, was assassinated by three assailants using high-grade rifles in a busy road in the city of Praia Grande. Ongoing police ...

From 25 to 27 November, the Caribbean’s third Regional Network Meeting for Crime Analysts, organized by the Board of Chiefs of Police of the Dutch Caribbean, brought together nearly 50 analysts, ...

Assassination Witness, Eco-Solve, Global Organized Crime Index, Gold Watch, Latinoamérica y el Caribe, Private Sector, Resilience Fund, UN-TOC Watch, Wildlife Watch, APA-Obs, CAM-Obs, CSA-Obs, EAS-Obs ...

Organized crime poses complex challenges across Central and West Africa, where illicit markets have developed amid porous borders, abundant natural resources and institutional vulnerabilities. Yet ...

More than 1.1 million people in the United States have died from opioid overdoses since 2000. In Canada, over 50,000 lives have been lost to opioid-related overdoses since 2016. Meanwhile, in Mexico, ...