UN and Organized Crime Podcast
Episodes
What a new protocol on environmental crimes could mean for the Amazon
22 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Ian speaks to key figures from the Brazilian government and civil society to understand the impacts of environmental crimes on the Ama...
A new hope for fighting environmental crimes?
16 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode kicks off a mini-series looking at a new protocol to the UNTOC on environmental crimes, with a conversation with Simone Haysom, GI-TOC's ...
Civil society priorities for the next Crime Congress
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ian speaks to three civil society grantees of the Resilience Fund, who attended the most recent UN Crime Commission in May. Ann...
Season 2! Underworlds with Mark Shaw - Underworlds with Mark Shaw
21 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Underworlds with Mark Shaw is returning for another season.Mark sits down with authors to discuss their investigations into the murky world of organiz...
Geneva 1955 to Abu Dhabi 2026
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ian Tennant talks to Dr Matti Joutsen, author of a recently published history of the UN Crime Programme, to discuss the history of th...
TRAILER: Underworlds with Mark Shaw - Underworlds with Mark Shaw
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Underworlds with Mark Shaw.Organized Crime is everywhere, hidden in plain sight. The stories from this world have been mythologised by Holl...
The Gender Agenda
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores the importance of gender equality and gender sensitive policies and programmes in national and international responses to organi...
Cybercrime: Safeguards Matter
31 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On 29 July 2024, the reconvened session of the Ad Hoc Committee (AHC) to conclude negotiations on a new UN convention on cybercrime began. The AHC is ...
Regional Approaches to Tackling Cybercrime - views from South East Asia
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This second podcast episode on cybercrime and critical technologies in South East Asia starts to explore what the possible regional and indeed global ...
Cybercrime in South East Asia: views from the region
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores the challenges that cybercrime and the exploitation of critical technologies pose in Indonesia and the Philippines and the broad...
Where next for the cybercrime convention?
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode reflects on what was supposed to be the concluding session of the UN’s ad Hoc committee that had been set up to negotiate a new convent...
Gang violence and the human rights and security crisis in Haiti
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ian talks to William O'Neill, the UN's designated expert on the human rights situation in Haiti. In the context of the escalatin...
GI-TOC - ECOSOC: Getting official status at the UN
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores how 'ECOSOC consultative status' enables NGOs to engage on policy issues at the UN, and how GI-TOC finally gained its accreditat...
The UN Cybercrime Treaty: A threat to press freedom?
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ian Tennant talks to Amy Brouillette of the International Press Institute to discuss the risks that the treaty negotiation poses to f...
Balancing Act: UN Cybercrime Committee enters crucial phase of negotiations
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode explores the latest developments in the process to negotiate a UN treaty on cyber crimes, including a look back at April's 5th Ad Hoc Com...
Confronting Africa’s evolving cyber threats
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In April 2023, the Ad Hoc Committee to elaborate a treaty on the misuse of ICTs for criminal purposes will meet to discuss a chapter on technical assi...
Panamá, seeing the CITES
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we look back at the recent CITES Conference of the Parties in Panamá, and explore how this multilateral process addresses environmen...
Crime and Sustainable Development at the UN
07 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Ian sits down with Dr Jarrett Blaustein, the author of a new book 'Unraveling the Crime-Development Nexus' . Together, Ian and Jarret...
UN Cybercrime Negotiation Insights
03 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss the ongoing UN negotiations to create a global instrument to address cybercrime, or what it is called formally: countering...
Into the weeds
13 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
From 30 May to 10 June, the second cybercrime UN 'AHC' negotiation meeting took place in Vienna. As delegations started exploring the issues in m...
Cybercrime P2: The road to a new UN convention
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On 28 February, UN Member States began the official negotiation process of a new UN legal instrument on cybercrime.In this episode we delve into the s...
Cybercrime P1: The road to a new UN convention
11 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On 28 February, UN Member States began the official negotiation process of a new UN legal instrument on cybercrime. In this episode we look back ...
Beyond Kyoto
26 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the final episode of the Road to Kyoto podcast series, Ian Tennant speaks to civil society participants at the 14th Crime Congress to reflect on wh...
Kyoto: Virtual Reflections
10 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
We have arrived in Kyoto, at least virtually. In this episode of the Road to Kyoto podcast, Ian Tennant reflects on how the Congress has function...
GI Network Members' Messages to the Crime Congress
17 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Ian is joined by a selection of distinguished guests and members of the GI Network of experts. They will discuss the current global st...
UNTOC: The Conference of the Parties
26 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ian takes a look back at the first major UN Conference on organized crime to have taken place this year – the Conference of Parties to the UN Conven...
Voices of Resilience
14 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Global Initiative has always championed the community leaders and civil society groups and activists who face the damage caused by organized crime...
Considering Criminal Justice Governance at the UN
15 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Tennant is joined by Ambassador Ugi Zvekic, Permanent Observer Office of the European Public Law Organization to United Nations in Vienna and Seni...
Penal Reform International
21 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week Ian is joined by Olivia Rope, the Director of Policy and International Advocacy at Penal Reform International.Global InitiativeRoad to Kyoto
The UN and Cybercrime
15 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week, Ian will be discussing cybercrime with Neil Walsh, the Chief of the Cybercrime, Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Financing of Terrorism De...
The Alliance and Civil Society
08 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Today Ian will be discussing the role of civil society groups at the Congress with the Chair of The NGO Alliance on Crime Prevention and Criminal Just...
International Drug Policy Consortium
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Ian Tennant from the Global Initiative sits down with the Chief Operating Officer of the IDPC, Jamie Bridge and Gloria Lai, the Regional Director for ...
UN Crime Congress
02 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this first episode presenter Ian Tennant sits down with the Director of the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime to discuss the ...