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A lot of people would like to forget 2020 even happened but while the year has brought hardship, it has also enriched our vocabulary with words we hardly ever used before.
Here is our selection of them.
Pandemic
Fairly obvious, but most of us hardly ever uttered the word before February. According to Merriam-Webster a US dictionary publisher by early March,
pandemic was being looked up an average of 4,000% above levels in 2019 .
On a similar register,
Over in the UK, the Oxford English Dictionary also flagged
lockdown, remotely and
Virtual happy hour
Multiple lockdowns, as well as bar and restaurant closures have redrawn the map of our social lives. A new kind of gathering was born in 2020: after remote-working comes the
Conviction rates for organised crime down in Western Balkans
December 28, 2020
Organised crime gangs in the Western Balkans are increasingly acting with impunity owing to a fall in the number of successful convictions.
While prosecution rates for organised crime in the Western Balkans are on the up, the number of cases ending in convictions is down, according to a recently published report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
In the region, convictions related to organised crime steadily dropped 744 in 2013 to 491 in 2017. The number of prosecutions meanwhile increased from 217 to 1,328.
According to the authors of the report, Measuring Organised Crime in the Western Balkans, these conflicting trends indicate deficiencies in the criminal justice response to organised crime, whether it is a lack of capacity to gather evidence, construct successful prosecutions, or adjudicate organised crime cases properly.