CA-Obs
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APA-Obs, EUR-Obs
Chasing Ireland’s ‘pot of gold’
How illicit brokers profit from Vietnamese migration routes
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NAS-Obs, SEE-Obs
A smuggling route reawakens:
Movement surges between eastern Libya and Crete
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Global Organized Crime Index, AMA-Obs, APA-Obs, AR-Obs, CA-Obs, CAM-Obs, CSA-Obs, EAS-Obs, ESA-Obs, EUR-Obs, HT-Obs, NAS-Obs, SA-Obs, SEE-Obs, WEA-Obs
The Global Organized Crime Index 2025
Crime at a crossroads
The Global Initiative at the 35th CCPCJ
1-5 June, 2026
EAS-Obs
Scam centres: Combating a global phenomenon
APA-Obs
New frontiers
China-linked scam operations pivot to Africa, presenting new challenges for at-risk countries
Eco-Solve
Observing, learning and restoring
Community responses to environmental crime
A network to counter networks
The Global Initiative comprises a network of over 600 independent global and regional experts working on human rights, democracy, governance, and development issues where organized crime has become increasingly pertinent.
More about the GI-TOCLatest Publications
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CA-Obs
22 May 2026
Uprooting Cameroon’s elite timber networks
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APA-Obs
15 May 2026
Turning the tide together: Confronting the Pacific methamphetamine crisis
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Global Organized Crime Index, UN Reform, UN-TOC Watch
04 May 2026
The 15th Crime Congress and the repositioning of the UNODC and UNTOC
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Global Initiative
29 Apr 2026
Where do stolen cars and parts from the UK and EU end up?
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Gold Watch
28 Apr 2026
Civil society policy recommendations on illicit gold
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EAS-Obs
27 Apr 2026
Scam centres: Combating a global phenomenon
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APA-Obs
22 Apr 2026
Mekong Risk Monitor #2
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Global Initiative
14 Apr 2026
Criminal coexistence: The illicit ecosystem of the Southern Cone’s triple border
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Global Initiative
09 Apr 2026
Wildlife has a Facebook problem
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APA-Obs
31 Mar 2026
Chinese policing in the South Pacific. Strategy, sovereignty and security competition
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SA-Obs
29 Mar 2026
Western Cape gang monitor – Issue 8
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HT-Obs
24 Mar 2026
Brokers and patrons: Unstitching gangs from Haiti’s political fabric
Upcoming and Past Events
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UN-TOC Watch
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JIED
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Our network
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View Profile Iliana Padilla-Reyes
Associate Professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico
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View Profile Hemanshu Parekh
Executive Director, Standard Chartered Bank
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View Profile Dr Dalia Ghanem
MENA Senior Analyst, European Institute for Security Studies (EUISS)
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View Profile Christian Bueger
Professor of International Relations, Copenhagen University
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View Profile Maria Anjos Sapina
Senior Executive in the conduct of Humanitarian Operations and Policy
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View Profile John Sullivan
Instructor, Safe Communities Institute
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View Profile Ruth Gursch-Adam
Senior Advisor, Austrian Institute for European and Security Policy
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View Profile Dr. Leo S.F. Lin
Senior Lecturer, Charles Sturt University
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View Profile Mauricio Vieira
Chair on Countering Illicit Trade and Preventing Transnational Organized Crime, University for Peace
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View Profile Atanas Rusev
Director Security Program at Center for the Study of Democracy