Stories from UNODC

Drug trafficking in the Golden Triangle

drug users in treatment

6 January 2009 - UNODC has just published the second volume of "De Narcoticis"; a series of photojournalism books depicting the lives of real people involved in - or touched by - the trade in illicit drugs.[Read More]

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Executive Director assesses global threats on BBC World Today

5 January 2009- UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa talks to the BBC World Service about the challenges facing his Office in 2009. He discusses drug trafficking and new forms of organized crime.

Mr. Costa's audio message [Read More]

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UNODC releases global homicide data

Crime scene

29 December 2008 - According to data from 198 countries and territories, published today by UNODC, Southern Africa, Central America, and South America are the three sub-regions with the highest homicide rates. West and Central Europe, East Asia, and South-east Europe are the three sub-regions showing the lowest rates of homicide.[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]