UN and Organized Crime Podcast

About UN and Organized Crime Podcast

The UN and Organized Crime Podcast is a series from the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime. As multilateralism itself comes under intense pressure, and as existing responses to transnational organized crime continue to fail, we’ll analyse the UN responses to the issue with some of the world’s leading experts as we try to unpack diplomatic discussions, policy developments and programme implementation.

Publisher

Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime

Category

government · news · true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

2 Apr 2020

Latest episode

16 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

4 of 35 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   16 Jul 2026

   A new protocol to the UNTOC: from the legal to the operational

   Ian Tennant interviews Frances Craigie and John Scanlon on how a new UNTOC protocol strengthens the fight against wildlife trafficking by bridging legal and operational gaps.

2. 

   22 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   What a new protocol on environmental crimes could mean for the Amazon

   Ian Tennant interviews Gustavo Carneiro and Melina Russo about a new UN protocol addressing environmental crimes and its impact on the Amazon.

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   16 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   A new hope for fighting environmental crimes?

   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 Director of Environmental Crimes, to explore why a new protocol is needed and what impacts it could have. Presenter: Ian Tennant, Director of Multilateral Engagement, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime Guest: Simone Haysom, Director of Environmental Crime, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime Links: (Article) When ‘why?’ becomes ‘why not?’: The case for a new global framework to tackle environmental crime (https://globalinitiative.net/analysis/the-case-for-a-new-global-framework-to-tackle-environmental-crime/) UN-TOC Watch (https://globalinitiative.net/initiatives/un-toc-watch/) ECO-SOLVE (https://www.ecosolve.eco/) Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime (https://globalinitiative.net/)

Inside a recent episode

What a new protocol on environmental crimes could mean for the Amazon

Published 22 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Is it possible, Melina, to even quantify the threats from environmental crimes in the Amazon? And how have they accelerated in recent years? Yeah, I think it's possible to quantify different environmental crimes that is happening in the Amazon basin. First of all, it's important to acknowledge that 91% of deforestation in the Amazon basin in Brazil is illegal. And the main drivers are illegal logging, illegal mining, land grabbing, and so on. So there is a huge amount of crimes that we can see affecting the Amazon basin. More than that, some research that we have done shows that we are not talking about crimes that happen in isolation. […]

Who has been a guest on UN and Organized Crime Podcast

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• John Scanlon
• Frances Craigie
• Gustavo Carneiro
• Melina Russo
• Mark Shaw

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5.0 / 5

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Podcast Authority Score: 21 / 100

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Engagement

32

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