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

Transnational organized crime  destroys lives and livelihoods, at an enormous cost to people and planet. To achieve peace, justice and resilience, the world must unite to #StopOrganizedCrime. Transnational organized crime is one of the most complex threats facing countries today. It fuels violence, terrorism and corruption, exploits people and resources, and undermines safety, justice and opportunity everywhere. It destroys lives and livelihoods, at an enormous cost to people and planet. To achieve peace, justice, and resilience, the world must unite to #StopOrganizedCrime. The staggering profits of organized crime come at an immense human cost. Lives lost. Communities broken. Futures stolen. Transnational organized crime fuels violence and exploitation, draining resources, destroying trust and undermining justice everywhere. No one should bear the burden of organized crime. Not in conflict. Not in crisis. Not in poverty. Not ever. It’s time to stop the profit from harm. Together ...

Organized crime thrives worldwide, affecting governance and political processes, and weakening the advancement of the rule of law . It encompasses, inter alia, illicit trafficking of firearms , illicit drugs trafficking , Trade of protected species , cultural property , or falsified medical products and, among its most severe manifestations, human trafficking and the smuggling of migrants . It also includes the laundering of proceeds of crime and obstruction of justice . Moreover, with all forms of organized crime shifting ever more to being dependent on or incorporating online aspects, including the use of virtual assets , its reach and capability of harm is increasing. Organized criminal groups are flexible in changing or expanding their illicit businesses for profit. They misuse vulnerabilities and crisis situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic, economic downturns, natural disasters, and armed conflicts exploiting them for their own purposes. Traditional, territorial-based ...

  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.