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One wrong letter: UN moves to curb cybercrime with new convention

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/10/1166175

Safety on and off the pitch: Closing down child trafficking in sport

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/08/1165640

Scam centres are a ‘human rights crisis’, independent experts warn

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/05/1163521

Exponential rise in synthetic drug production and trafficking in the Golden Triangle

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/05/1163741

Human Rights Council: Significant increase in child victims of trafficking

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/03/1161061

Alarming trends in nuclear material trafficking highlight urgent security gaps

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1160656

Non-binding guiding principles on preventing, detecting and disrupting the use of new and emerging financial technologies for terrorist purposes released in official UN languages

Read here: https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/ctc/news/non-binding-guiding-principles-preventing-detecting-and-disrupting-use-new-and-emerging

Link to principles: https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/ctc/sites/www.un.org.securitycouncil.ctc/files/n2500570.pdf

Evolving Trends in the Financing of Foreign Terrorist Fighters’ Activity: 2014 – 2024

Read here: https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/ctc/content/cted-trends-tracker-evolving-trends-financing-foreign-terrorist-fighters’-activity-2014-–

Link to report: https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/ctc/sites/www.un.org.securitycouncil.ctc/files/cted_trends_tracker_evolving_trends_in_the_financing_of_foreign_terrorist_fighters_activity_2014_-_2024.pdf

Crushing the scam farms: Southeast Asia’s ‘criminal service providers’

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/07/1151906

Southeast Asia: Torture rooms and karaoke bars in gang-run ‘scam farms’

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/07/1151886

Rights expert urges banks to stop financing Myanmar junta weapons trade

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/06/1151541

Security Council Fails to Extend Mandate for Expert Panel Assisting Sanctions Committee on Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

Read here: https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15648.doc.htm

Technology ‘supercharging illicit economies’ in Southeast Asia

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/interview/2024/01/1145952

‘Illegal betting is the number one factor fuelling corruption in sports’, UN conference hears. $1.7 trillion is wagered on illicit betting

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/12/1144857

Myanmar overtakes Afghanistan as world’s top opium producer

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/12/1144702

UNODC joins regional crime fighters to tackle scams and human trafficking in SE Asia

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/09/1141492

Stamping out corruption can give SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) $3 trillion boost

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/05/1136282

Thematic summary assessment of gaps in implementing key countering the financing of terrorism provisions of Security Council resolutions

Read here: https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/ctc/content/thematic-summary-assessment-gaps-implementing-key-countering-financing-terrorism-provisions

Link to report: https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/ctc/sites/www.un.org.securitycouncil.ctc/files/cted_2022_cft_gaps_assessment_final.pdf

Fake medicines kill almost 500,000 sub-Saharan Africans a year: UNODC report

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/02/1133062

CTED hosts discussion on proceeds from exploitation and trade in natural resources as source of terrorism financing

Read here: https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/ctc/news/cted-hosts-discussion-proceeds-exploitation-and-trade-natural-resources-source-terrorism

Sanctions having negative impact on scientific research, rights experts warn

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/07/1122152

Concerns Over The Use Of Proceeds From The Exploitation, Trade, And Trafficking Of Natural Resources For The Purposes Of Terrorism Financing

Read here: https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/ctc/sites/www.un.org.securitycouncil.ctc/files/files/documents/2022/Jun/cted_cft_trends_alert_june_2022.pdf

Uptick in Ballistic Missile Launches on Korean Peninsula, Notices of Pre-emptive Nuclear Strike ‘Deeply Concerning’, Top Official Tells Security Council

Read here: https://www.un.org/press/en/2022/sc14887.doc.htm

Nicaragua: New [AML] law heralds damaging crackdown on civil society, UN warns

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/05/1117802

International Narcotics Control Board – Annual Report 2021

Read here: https://unis.unvienna.org/pdf/2022/INCB/INCB_2021_Report_E.pdf

Security Council Unanimously Adopts Resolution 2615 (2021), Enabling Provision of Humanitarian Aid to Afghanistan as Country Faces Economic Crisis

Read here: https://www.un.org/press/en/2021/sc14750.doc.htm

Unilateral sanctions particularly harmful to women, children, other vulnerable groups

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/12/1107492

Expert Roundtable on Video Games and Violent Extremism

Watch here: https://media.un.org/asset/k14/k14ggj6o92

Traffickers abusing online technology, UN crime prevention agency warns

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/10/1104392

Link to paper ‘Successful strategies for addressing the use of technology to facilitate trafficking in persons and to prevent and investigate trafficking in persons’: https://www.unodc.org/documents/treaties/WG_TiP_2021/CTOC_COP_WG.4_2021_2/ctoc_cop_wg.4_2021_2_E.pdf

Secretary-General calls for renewal of social contract in new report

Read here: https://unric.org/en/secretary-general-calls-for-renewal-of-social-contract-in-new-report/

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) ‘deeply troubled’ by DPRK nuclear reactor development

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/08/1098822

Punishment of ‘innocent civilians’ through government sanctions must end: UN experts

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/08/1097562

UNODC releases a major upgrade of its Anti-Money Laundering software as the total number of users passes 100,000

Read here: https://unite.un.org/goportfolio/news/unodc-releases-major-upgrade-its-anti-money-laundering-software-total-number-users-passes

UN Panel of Experts Report on North Korea – March 2021 [2515 (2020)]

Read here: https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/sanctions/1718/panel_experts/reports

United States’ Designation of Houthi Militia as Foreign Terrorist Organization Risks Expediting Large-Scale Famine in Yemen, Speakers Warn Security Council

Read here: https://www.un.org/press/en/2021/sc14410.doc.htm

Saudi Arabia: UN rights expert welcomes ‘positive first step’ toward détente in Gulf

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/01/1081612

Report reveals linkages between human trafficking and forced marriage

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/10/1074892

Link to PDF: https://www.unodc.org/documents/human-trafficking/2020/UNODC_Interlinkages_Trafficking_in_Persons_and_Marriage.pdf

Tackling Illicit Financial Flows for Sustainable Development in Africa 2020

Read here: https://unctad.org/en/PublicationsLibrary/aldcafrica2020_en.pdf

Corruption and tax-dodging ‘rampant’, urgent reforms needed: UN panel

Read here: https://news.un.org/en/story/2020/09/1073442

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