EVENTS

Transnational Organized Crime: A Powerful Predator Destroying the Amazon

InSight Crime took part in the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) bi-annual conference in Vienna, where the scourge of organized crime across the world will be discussed, patterns identified, and recommendations presented. InSight Crime presented its experience on the key issues of the criminal exploitation of migrants and environmental crime in the Amazon.

Please join us for an exploration of these issues as we shared our ideas with the UN and governments from around the world.

Date

20 Oct 2022

Time

2:00 pm - 2:45 pm CET

Where

Livestreamed in English to YouTube – REGISTRATION NOT REQUIRED

Speakers

Jeremy McDermott - Co-Director, InSight Crime. McDermott leads InSight Crime’s team based in Medellin, Colombia. McDermott has more than two decades of experience reporting from Latin America and is a former correspondent for the BBC, The Daily Telegraph, and The Economist. He is the author of "The Invisible Drug Trafficker: In the Footsteps of Memo Fantasma," winner of the Simon Bolívar Award for investigative journalism.

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