On October 12, 2014, following months of undercover investigations, an international team of law enforcement and anti-human trafficking organizations sprung Operation Cristal II to simultaneously take down sex trafficking networks involving minor and adolescent victims that catered to foreign tourists, politicians, and businessmen in Cartagena, Medellín,[2] and Armenia.

On August 1, 2025, the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General submitted to the Security Council his report on the threat posed by the Islamic State (Da’esh) to international peace and security.

On July 15, 2025, lawyers representing the government of Equatorial Guinea pushed United Nations (U.N.) judges to prevent France’s sale of a luxury Parisian mansion, claiming that this action amounted to “neo-colonial” conduct on the part of France.

In late summer 2025, Do Hyeong Kwon pled guilty in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, New York, to securities fraud, wire fraud, and conspiracy to commit commodities fraud for his role in the transnational cryptocurrency scam linked to his cryptocurrency trading platform, Terraform.

On August 14, 2025, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) announced criminal charges against five high-ranking members of the United Cartels, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).

On August 2, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld an injunction restricting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from conducting indiscriminate immigration sweeps in the Los Angeles area.

On August 12, 2025, the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia announced the unsealing of an indictment charging Jimmy Cherizier(also known as Barbecue), Bazile Richardson, and Lepe Blode, a naturalized U.S. citizen, with conspiring to transfer funds from the United States (U.S.) to finance gang activities in Haiti in violation of  U.S. sanctions imposed on Cherizier.  Cherizier is a fugitive and is thought to be in Haiti.  On July 23, U.S. law enforcement authorities arrested Richardson in Pasadena, Texas.  He made his initial court appearance on August 12 in the District of Columbia.

On August 12, 2025, the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar (Mechanism) made important progress in both collecting evidence of crimes against people detained by the Myanmar military authorities and in establishing the identity of perpetrators of these crimes. These findings are included in its Annual Report. 

On July 24, 2025, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) published a report (the report) describing a vast, illegal mercury trade running from Mexico down to Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia, where the mercury is used to mine for gold. The report claims that around 200 tons of mercury have been trafficked south in contravention of the Minamata Convention on Mercury. EIA executive director Alexander von Bismarck said in a statement: “[t]he toxic flow of mercury to the illegal gold mines in the Amazon has been presented and accepted as inevitable for too many years; it is time to challenge this status quo that affects Amazonian communities and benefits organized criminals.”

On August 4, 2025, France extradited to the United States (U.S.) Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukuwu, also known as “Chukwuemeka Victor Eletuo,” and “So Kwan Leung” on hacking, fraud, and identity theft charges.