With an inspiring speech, UNICRI Director a.i. Bettina Tucci Bartsiotas addressed the 2019 LL.M. in Transnational Crime and Justice class during the Graduation Ceremony held in July at the UN Campus in Turin, Italy.
The new edition of the LL.M., jointly organized by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and University for Peace (UPEACE), will run from November 2019 to May 2020.
The world is undergoing a massive technological transformation, involving all levels of public and private life. Developments in artificial intelligence (AI) are challenging traditional perspectives, boundaries and methods in virtually all sectors: this calls for new approaches, standards and metrics.
Advances in blockchain are spurring a revolution in the delivery of a wide range of trust-based services, with applications ranging from financial markets, supply chains, consumer and business-to-business services, and publicly-held registers. With this capacity, however, there equally exist new possibilities for deliberate misuse, as blockchain knowledge and technologies become increasingly accessible to organized criminal groups and terrorist networks.
This report offers an overview of State actions in artificial intelligence (AI), focusing specifically on national strategies and plans and related government investments, major venture capital funds and industry venture capital funding. Many governments and companies are active in AI. However, for the purposes of this report, only those States currently with or having demonstrated some form of interest in developing an AI national strategy or plan at the time of writing are considered here.
Advances in blockchain are spurring a revolution in the delivery of a wide range of trust-based services, with applications ranging from financial markets, supply chains, consumer and business-to-business services, and publicly-held registers. With this capacity, however, there equally exist new possibilities for deliberate misuse, as blockchain knowledge and technologies become increasingly accessible to organized criminal groups and terrorist networks.
The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and the Italian Society for International Organization (SIOI) are organizing the fourth edition of the Winter Course on Environmental Crimes, which will take place at SIOI headquarters in Rome, from 16 to 20 December 2019.
In Mozambique persons with albinism are estimated at 20,000 to 30,000 individuals, a relatively small group, which is dispersed across the country. Even though albinism is a natural inherited condition, persons with albinism are subject to discrimination, exclusion, verbal and physical violent attacks, which can amount to body part and organ removal, organ trafficking and murder.
The report of the Board of Trustees of UNICRI was prepared pursuant the decision of the Board taken at its meeting held on 16 and 17 January 2019 to report to the Economic and Social Council, through the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. The report contains information on the work of, and the results achieved by, the Institute, in accordance with its Statute (Council resolution 1989/56, annex).
The UN Innovation Network (UNIN) is an informal, collaborative community of UN innovators interested in sharing their expertise and experience with others to promote and advance innovation within the UN System. The UNIN is open to innovators from all UN Agencies as well as external partners and to date, representatives from 65+ entities in over 70 countries have joined the Network.
