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

This report assesses the main patterns in targeted killings in the first nine months of 2026. Political killings and mass killings are counted to 30 September. While it focuses primarily on suspected ...

Methamphetamine from the Mekong moves through adaptable regional supply chains, creating strategic risks for New Zealand and ...

Mexican journalists face a new layer of risk as criminal groups use AI-driven disinformation to spread fear and weaken trust ...

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 ...

Latin American criminal groups are expanding into Europe, building local networks across cocaine, synthetic drugs and arms markets.

Durante las últimas tres décadas, Centroamérica ha sufrido una presión constante del crimen organizado, sobre todo mediante la violencia vinculada a disputas territoriales, al tráfico de drogas y a la ...

Global awareness of the increase in industrial-based cyber scam operations in mainland South East Asia, which use trafficked individuals and forced criminality to target the global population with ...

In early June 2026, four migrant farmworkers were burnt to death in a car at a petrol station in Calabria, southern Italy, following an alleged dispute over unpaid wages. This case once again brought ...

Since the early 2000s, the central Sahel–Libya corridor has been an important cocaine trafficking route linking West Africa and North Africa with European consumption markets. Although most cocaine ...

A teenager uploads an ordinary photograph to social media. Minutes later, someone they have never met downloads it, alters it and turns it into sexual abuse material – without their knowledge or ...