International Day for the Prevention of and Fight against All Forms of Transnational Organized Crime

  Analysis from the Haiti Observatories on the Weaponization of displacement by gangs. In 2024, crime-related violence triggered the displacement of at least 1.2 million people globally – more than twice the number recorded in the previous year. In a report to the Human Rights Council in June 2025, the Special Rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, Paula Gaviria Betancur, warned of the growing role of organized crime as a catalyst for internal displacement worldwide and as a source of serious human rights violations . Haiti has emerged as the epicentre of this crisis. The country accounted for approximately three-quarters of all crime-induced displacement in 2024, reflecting the scale and severity of gang-driven security, political and humanitarian collapse currently underway. The situation has continued to deteriorate in 2025. As of July, over 1.3 million people have been internally displaced in the country, an increase of at least 24% since January. T...

  The deployment of organized criminal gangs by politicians to counter peaceful protests in Nairobi in June has once again raised the spectre of violence in Kenya ahead of the 2027 general elections, threatening peace, cohesion and integration in a country battling to retain its hold on democracy. On 25 June, organized criminals armed with whips and clubs, and backed by the police unleashed terror on a peaceful march commemorating one year since the historic GenZ uprising against punitive taxes, in which 60 people were killed. A week earlier, on 18 June, the same anarchists, some riding passenger motorcycles (known locally as boda boda), had confronted hundreds of people peacefully demanding the arrest and prosecution of a senior police officer suspected of involvement in the death of 31-year-old teacher and political blogger Alfred Ojwang in police custody. While the media has widely described them as ‘ hired goons ’, the attacks were in fact more organized and calculated: thes...

  This is the fifth issue of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime’s Western Cape Gang Monitor , an output of our South Africa Organized Crime Observatory. This series of bulletins tracks developments in Western Cape gang dynamics each quarter, to provide a concise synthesis of relevant trends to inform policymakers and civil society. The monitor draws on information provided by field researchers working in gang-affected communities of the Western Cape. This includes interviews with current and former gang members, civil society, and members of the criminal justice system.

  Analysis from Haiti Observatories on '' Haiti on the brink as Kenya’s aid mission remains paralyzed" .

  Analysis from Haiti observatories on How US terrorist designations could deepen criminal rule and humanitarian tragedy

  Violent activity by criminal groups is not classified as terrorism in the Global Terrorism Index . Yet the massacre of 207 people by criminal gangs in Haiti in December 2024 would rank as the second deadliest terrorist attack in 2024. To put things in perspective, 7 555 people were killed in terrorist attacks worldwide in 2024; in Haiti alone, there were 7 302 homicides last year. The number of homicides in Mexico in 2024 was 25 469, many of them directly attributable to organized crime. In stark terms, organized crime kills far more people than terrorism.

  Analysis from Haiti Observatories on Violence and Resilience .