by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Jul 30, 2025
The report highlights the emergence of critical regional hubs and the complex cross-border illicit economies , spanning drugs, wildlife trafficking, illegal mining, and human smuggling that underpin these risks. This evolving landscape underscores the urgent need for...
by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Dec 8, 2024
The report highlights structural weaknesses in the Western Balkans that enable money laundering. Key issues include regulatory gaps in cryptocurrency, which allow anonymous, cross-border transactions, and financial technology, which introduces new risks due to lagging...
by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Sep 20, 2024
The key message will include the need for diverse, robust data to enhance environmental crime response strategies and operations, introduction of the Global Monitoring System database and Global Trend Report analysis as foundational tools to counter online IWT...
by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Mar 18, 2024
Pacific islands have traditionally been considered as mostly immune from high levels of criminality due to their geographic remoteness. However, highly pernicious illicit markets are taking hold, and the islands are becoming increasingly vulnerable to new threats in...
by Jyotsna Bucktowar | Sep 14, 2023
This report described the fall of the protection racket by Libyan militias that underpinned the surge in irregular migration between 2014 and 2017, and reported on the impact of the enforcement of a law criminalizing human smuggling in Niger between mid-2016 and...
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