Haiti’s elections face political-criminal networks that can turn gang control of territory into electoral influence and ...

Illicit gold flows exploit weak due diligence and regulatory gaps across global bullion markets, supply chains and financial ...

In January 2025, a 177-carat rough diamond, one of the largest ever found in the Central African Republic (CAR), disappeared without a trace. Sources familiar with the case told the Global Initiative ...

In January 2025, Goma fell to the M23 rebel group, marking a brutal turning point in the protracted conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Goma, the capital of North Kivu province ...

Profit and power drive organized crime groups. Whether operating cocaine routes through Belgium or the Netherlands, trafficking arms and ammunitions in the Western Balkans, or smuggling humans across ...

North Africa and the Sahel have long been central to migrant movement, human smuggling and trafficking, with their importance growing steadily since the late 1990s. Today, the two regions are critical ...

Calling for collaborative proposals to counter organized crime in the Mekong! Are you a civil society organization working to respond to illegal drugs, financial crime or child sexual exploitation in ...

2020 marked the start of a global pandemic and the world’s first 24-hour virtual conference on global organized crime, #OC24. Since then, six editions of OC24 have taken place, bringing together ...

Over the past year, a record number of mass fires have occurred across the Amazon basin. Many of them, particularly those in the Brazilian Amazon – which accounts for over 60 per cent of the ...