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Former drug user now top athlete in Iran

Abbas Amir-Mafi on the archery field

25 July 2008 - Five years ago, Abbas Amir-Mafi was one of Iran's hundreds of thousands of drug users; hooked on opium at 12, kicked out of home and feeding his habit with odd jobs. Thanks to treatment, he is now a member of the national archery team, trains 6-7 hours per day and is drug free. Drug dependence treatment programmes work.[Read More]

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Providing affordable IT tools to developing countries

goAML logo

24 July 2008 - UNODC's information technology tool designed to help countries fight financial crimes such as money-laundering and the financing of terrorism, goAML, was installed last week in the Financial Intelligence Centre (FIC) of Namibia, upon request by the country's National Bank.[Read More]

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Targeting precursor chemicals in Afghanistan and beyond

Anti-narcotics officials in Afghanistan

16 July 2008 - More than 3 tons of precursor chemicals used to produce heroin were recently seized in Afghanistan within the framework of the UNODC-supported 'Operation Tarcet'. The regional Operation targets the smuggling of precursor chemicals into the country which currently supplies more than 90 per cent of the world's heroin.[Read More]

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UNODC Initiatives

Paris Pact

A partnership of more than 50 countries and international organizations aimed at combating Afghan opiates trafficking, consumption and related problems in the affected priority countries. [Read More]

StAR Initiative

By signaling to corrupt leaders that there will be no safe haven for stolen assets, StAR would constitute a formidable deterrent to corruption in developing countries. StAR would also serve to bring in the other side of the corruption equation, as stolen as [Read More]

UN.Gift

The Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) aims to mobilize state and non-state actors to eradicate human trafficking by (i) reducing both the vulnerability of potential victims a [Read More]