Countries across the Gulf region strengthened their capacity to investigate and prosecute CBRN crimes through a multidisciplinary training hosted by the UAE, implemented with the financial support of the European Union through the EU CBRN Centres of Excellence Initiative, to enhance preparedness, cooperation and judicial responses to complex CBRN risks.
Addressing CBRN Risks in the Gulf Region
The expert briefing Checkpoint Reached: The Prevention of Violent Extremism and Online Gaming is jointly organized by the Permanent Mission of Japan to the United Nations, the Department of Home Affairs of Australia, the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism (UNOCT).
The event will convene experts from with the UN, academia and private sector to examine how online gaming ecosystems intersect with violent extremism, and how these spaces can be proactively leveraged for prevention.
Strengthening Regional Cooperation to Counter Sanctions Evasion and Emerging Threats in Southeast Asia
Hidden Links: Facilitating Criminal Activities While Exploiting E-Commerce highlights an emerging challenge in the fight against online counterfeiting. As e-commerce platforms continue to expand, they have also become attractive environments for criminal actors seeking to exploit gaps in digital marketplaces.
Hidden Links: Facilitating Criminal Activities While Exploiting E-Commerce examines a rapidly growing and increasingly sophisticated form of online criminality linked to the trafficking of counterfeit goods.
The initiative
As environmental crime continues to escalate globally, causing severe and often irreversible harm to ecosystems, biodiversity and human health, while undermining governance and the rule of law, the European Union has adopted Directive (EU) 2024/1203 on the protection of the environment through criminal law, significantly strengthening the legal framework for the prevention and prosecution of environmental offences
Cyberspace has become a defining arena for contemporary crime, conflict and security. As emerging technologies transform the way societies function, they are also reshaping how criminal actors operate, how conflicts unfold, and how legal and governance systems are challenged to respond.
