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As war rages on in Ukraine, organised crime is taking new forms

·July 18, 2025·1 min read

Since February 2022, both legal and illegal economies in Ukraine have been severely disrupted by the war. The report examines the evolution of organised crime structures in the country and focuses on six distinct areas: drug trafficking and production, online scams and fraud, arms trafficking, economic crime, trafficking in persons,...

Organized crime groups increasingly embedded in gold supply chain

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·May 21, 2025·1 min read

Criminal networks are increasingly seeking to gain control over extraction sites, trade routes, and refining infrastructure. According to a new report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), these groups have become deeply embedded in gold supply chains, drawn by the sector’s high profitability and rising gold prices....

Afghanistan: Opium prices approach historic peaks, crime syndicates benefit

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·March 13, 2025·1 min read

One kilogramme of opium cost $750 last year, up from $75 just three years ago, compensating sellers for the loss in overall production and poppy fields, according to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). “Heroin and opium seizures are down about 50 per cent in weight since 2021,”...

Eastern DR Congo: Crisis deepens as crime and insecurity surges

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·February 25, 2025·1 min read

According to the UN relief coordination office, OCHA, aid workers have been among those killed, and widespread human rights violations have been reported, UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists at a regular news briefing in New York. “In Lubero Territory, north of Goma, clashes last week forced more than 100,000...

Guterres calls for end to ‘atrocious crime’ of enforced disappearances

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·August 31, 2023·2 min read

Enforced disappearance has regularly been used as a tool for instilling fear and exert control over a population. The feeling of insecurity it generates is not limited to close relatives of the disappeared, but also their communities and society as a whole. In a post on social media platform X,...

Security Council urged to address ‘most silenced and least condemned crime’

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·July 15, 2023·2 min read

“Every new wave of warfare brings with it a rising tide of human tragedy, including new waves of war’s oldest, most silenced and least condemned crime,” she said. The Council meeting to examine implementation of its resolutions on conflict-related sexual violence was convened by the United Kingdom, which holds the rotating presidency...

Myanmar: Military’s obstruction of humanitarian aid could be international crime

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·July 1, 2023·1 min read

The chief of OHCHR’s Myanmar team, James Rodehaver, explained that since their February 2021 coup, the country’s military rulers have been instilling a “climate of fear” to subjugate the civilian population, restricting aid access and using “all means” at their disposal to clamp down on civil society. Brutal tactics He...

On Peacebuilding Day, ambassadors discuss response to organized crime in the Sahel

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·June 25, 2023·2 min read

The PBC, an intergovernmental advisory body launched in 2006, plays a crucial role in supporting peace efforts in conflict-affected countries. Consisting of 31 Member States elected from the General Assembly, the Security Council, and the Economic and Social Council, it brings together top donors and troop-contributing countries. Ambassador Ivan Šimonović of...

Huge increase in transnational crime and synthetic drugs in SE Asia requires cross-border cooperation

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·June 2, 2023·6 min read

A Thai Navy launch travels at high speed down the muddy brown waters of the Mekong River close to the border town of Chiang Saen in the north of Thailand. To the right is Laos, where huge construction projects funded by foreign investment are rising out of the lush undergrowth...

UN independent experts spotlight ‘prima facie war crime’ in East Jerusalem

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·April 14, 2023·2 min read

“There has been an ongoing and unchecked tragedy: the forced eviction of Palestinians from their homes,” they said in a joint statement. “Israel’s transfer of its own population into the occupied territory confirms a deliberate intention to colonize the territory it occupies, a practice strictly prohibited by international humanitarian law,”...

Crime and terrorism thriving again in Afghanistan amid economic ruin, warns Kőrösi |

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·November 11, 2022·3 min read

Csaba Kőrösi painted a near apocalyptic picture of ordinary life in the Taliban-ruled nation that has endured almost five decades of “relentless conflict”, urging the international community to make up the $2.3 billion shortfall in the UN humanitarian appeal for $4.4 billion. ‘Moral imperative’ In a powerful speech to ambassadors in New...