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United Nations Office On Drugs And Crime

Type: Organization

Name: United Nations Office On Drugs And Crime (UNODC, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)

Fact Sheet: Fact Sheet for UNODC

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

Let us fight child trafficking

Unfortunately, most members of Congress and state and local officials aren't aware of the most horrific of crimes -- child trafficking. I recently met briefly with U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, ... [Miami Herald - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Cartel, United Nations Office On Drugs And Crime, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen

First Reported 11/20/2009 - Updated 11/20/2009 - 1 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Boeing plane used as drug transport

DAKAR: A Boeing plane being used to transport cocaine from Venezuela to West Africa crashed in Mali earlier this month after a failed take-off, the representative of the UN’s drugs and crime office said yesterday.It is the first time the United Nations ... [Malay Mail - 11/20/2009]

Entities: Boeing Company, Cocaine, Dakar, United Nations, Venezuela

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 2 Documents (in Chemistry)

United Nations

Uncertainty Over Toxic Chemicals in Conakry

Dakar — The recent upheaval in Guinea has thrown into question the status of toxic chemicals discovered earlier this year at several sites throughout the capital Conakry, according to UN experts.The products, which can be used to make or refine narcotics, ... [AllAfrica.com - 11/18/2009]

Entities: United Nations Office On Drugs And Crime, Conakry, United Nations, Guinea, Toxic

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 5 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Boeing Company

Boeing transporting cocaine from South America to Africa crashes

A Boeing being used to haul cocaine crashed in Mali this month, the first time the United Nations has heard of such a large plane moving drugs from South America to Africa, a UN official said on Monday."A Boeing coming from Venezuela landed on a makeshift ... [Telegraph - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Cocaine, Boeing Company, United Nations Office On Drugs And Crime

First Reported 11/15/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 2 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Qatar joins UN fight against corruption

The Convention makes it mandatory for countries to prevent and criminalise corruption, promote international cooperation, recover stolen assets, and improve technical assistance and information exchange.Under the new mechanism, all countries will be monitored ... [Gulf News - 11/16/2009]

Entities: Corruption, Qatar, United Nations Office On Drugs And Crime, United Nations, Technical Assistance

First Reported 11/16/2009 - Updated 11/16/2009 - 1 Documents

Emirate has capacity to lead fight against crime

Dubai: Dubai Public Prosecution (DPP) has the professionalism and capacity to lead international cooperation to combat organised crime, a United Nations official told Gulf News on Monday."Through hosting and organising the IAP Conference, I think Dubai ... [Gulf News - 11/16/2009]

Entities: United Nations Office On Drugs And Crime, Crime, Dubai, Organized Crime

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents

Mexican army seizes 12.3 tons of marijuana

MEXICO CITY, Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- The Mexican army seized over 12.3 tons of marijuana at a checkpoint in the country's northwestern state of Sinaloa, the army said on Monday.Soldiers found 1,700 small packets of marijuana in an abandoned truck at the checkpoint ... [Xinhua News Agency - 11/17/2009]

Entities: United Nations Office On Drugs And Crime, Sinaloa (Mexico), Seizures, Mexico City

First Reported 11/17/2009 - Updated 11/17/2009 - 1 Documents

Bolivian candidate vows to subsidise legal coca use

'As president of the republic I will subsidise coca. To those who chew (leaves), I will give back 50 percent of the cost,' Reyes Villa told reporters.At 18 percent in recent polls, Reyes Villa remains 34 points behind frontrunner President Evo Morales, ... [Times Live South Africa - 11/17/2009]

Entities: United Nations Office On Drugs And Crime, Bolivia, Cocaine, COCA LEAF

First Reported 11/18/2009 - Updated 11/18/2009 - 1 Documents (in Health)

Lured From The Hills of Nepal and Sold to a Brothel in Mumbai

Lured from the hills of Nepal, Nisha found herself sold to a brothel in Mumbai at 11. Two years later, she had contracted HIV. She had been entertaining five to ten customers a day for those two years.At 19, the slightly-built Rakhi is the mother of a ... [Student Operated Press - 11/18/2009]

Entities: HIV/AIDS, Nepal, United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)

First Reported 10/22/2009 - Updated 10/23/2009 - 9 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

UN report: Russia becomes largest market for Afghan heroin

Russia has become the biggest consumer of Afghan heroin with 21% of all the drug consumed in the world, as of the latest UN Office on Drugs and Crime report “Addiction, Crime and Insurgency” published on October 21.According to the report, no less than ... [Russia Today - 10/23/2009]

Entities: Heroin (Diacetylmorphine), Russia, opiate

First Reported 11/11/2009 - Updated 11/11/2009 - 3 Documents

UN sets up Libya office to fight crime

AFP.TRIPOLI. Libya signed an agreement with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime on Tuesday to join forces to crack down on organised crime in the Maghreb region, officials said.UNODC will open an office in Tripoli aimed at providing technical ... [Zimbabwe Herald - 11/11/2009]

Entities: Libya, United Nations Office On Drugs And Crime, Tripoli (Libya), Maghreb, United Nations

First Reported 10/23/2009 - Updated 10/23/2009 - 3 Documents (in Conflicts & Crime)

Afghan heroin 'destroys lives in NATO countries'

The flood of heroin pouring out of occupied Afghanistan is killing tens of thousands in NATO member states and contributing to the spread of Aids, the UN warned on Wednesday.In a new report, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said that ... [Morning Star Online - 10/23/2009]

Entities: Heroin (Diacetylmorphine), United Nations Office On Drugs And Crime, NATO, opiate

Quotes

...As UNODC's Executive Director, Antonio Maria Costa, put it, "The crisis we face of fragmented knowledge and disjointed response intensifies a crime that shames us all."

Lured From The Hills of Nepal and Sold to a Brothel in Mumbai [Student Operated Press - 11/18/2009]

"What is worrying is that there is the capacity to produce synthetic drugs - ecstasy" UNODC's Schmidt said...

Uncertainty Over Toxic Chemicals in Conakry [AllAfrica.com - 11/18/2009]

More Content

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Boeing plane used as drug transport [Malay Mail - 11/20/2009]
Let us fight child trafficking [Miami Herald - 11/20/2009]
Nigeria: No end to internal displacement [ReliefWeb - 11/20/2009]
Lured From The Hills of Nepal and Sold to a Bro... [Student Operated Press - 11/18/2009]
Uncertainty Over Toxic Chemicals in Conakry [AllAfrica.com - 11/18/2009]
GUINEA: Uncertainty over toxic chemicals in cap... [IRIN - 11/18/2009]
Bolivian candidate vows to subsidise legal coca... [Times Live South Africa - 11/17/2009]
Mexican army seizes 12.3 tons of marijuana [Xinhua News Agency - 11/17/2009]
Boeing transporting cocaine from South America ... [Telegraph - 11/16/2009]
'Drugs plane' crashed after poor takeoff [Sydney Morning Herald - 11/16/2009]
'Drugs plane' crashed after poor takeoff (AAP) [Yahoo! News Australia - 11/16/2009]
'Drugs plane' crashed after poor takeoff [The Age - 11/16/2009]
Emirate has capacity to lead fight against crime [Gulf News - 11/16/2009]
Venezuelan drugs Boeing crashed in Mali: UN [Yahoo! Canada - 11/16/2009]
Qatar joins UN fight against corruption [Gulf News - 11/16/2009]
UN anti-corruption convention approved in Qatar [Gulf News - 11/15/2009]
Juarez businessmen seek help [CNN - 11/13/2009]
Big P seizure will cause withdrawal symptoms [stuff.co.nz - 11/13/2009]
Drugs, violence spur Juarez businessmen to seek... [CNN - 11/13/2009]
U.N. troops sought in drug cartel fight [CNN - 11/13/2009]
Juarez business leaders petition U.N. for help ... [CNN - 11/13/2009]
U.N. troops sought to fight drug cartels [CNN - 11/13/2009]
MEXICO: DNA Tool to Trace Missing Kids [Inter Press Service - 11/12/2009]
U.N. exhibit benefits children of Uganda -- [Virgin Islands Daily News - 11/12/2009]
UN sets up Libya office to fight crime [Zimbabwe Herald - 11/11/2009]
KRG supports international transparency efforts... [Kurdistan Regional Government - 11/11/2009]
UN 'cops' open Libya office [News24.com - 11/11/2009]
Russian Federal Security Service detains 14 hum... [Russian Information Agency Novosti - 11/11/2009]
UN sets up Libya office to fight crime in Maghreb [AFP via Yahoo! - 11/11/2009]
IMO to assist Somalia in anti-piracy program [Manila Bulletin - 11/10/2009]

Blogs

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The Afghan Opium Problem [PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts - 10/22/2009] The UNODC has released (as of yesterday) a new report (Addiction, Crime and Insurgency: The Transnational Threat of Afghan Opium [PDF]) on the opium problem in Afghanistan. If ...
Afghanistan opium survey 2009 [IntelliBriefs - 10/04/2009] United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Read the full text PDF Afghanistan opium survey 2009...02 October 2009The bottom is starting to fall out of the Afghan ...
Twittery Today : Prezza / FCO Edition [Guy Fawkes' blog - 09/03/2009] Guido is starting a new occasional blog feature highlighting some of the idiocy that appears on Twitter. If you find any examples, please email them to twitter@order-order.com. ...
Border war rattles China-Myanmar ties [IntelliBriefs - 09/01/2009] By Larry Jagan BANGKOK - Myanmar military operations against an ethnic insurgent group have forced tens of thousands of refugees across China's southern border and ...
The virtues of doing nothing: Why focusing on A... [Pakistan: Now or Never? - 07/21/2009] Joshua Foust is an American military analyst. He blogs about Central Asia and Afghanistan at Registan.net . Reuters is not responsible for the content - the views ...

Audio/Video

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Afghan opium crop down, prices fall [Reuters Video: Top News - 09/02/2009]

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