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Tides Are Turning: Women at the Helm, Accelerating Change.

08 March 2025

For ages, the open seas have been an exclusive boys’ club, a no-woman’s land where tradition dictated, “stay ashore.”...

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RECOPORT ESA 25: A Strategic Exercise to Strengthen Port Security in Eastern Africa and the Indian Ocean.

31 January 2025

From January 27 to 31, 2025, the RECOPORT ESA 25 exercise took place in Antananarivo, Madagascar, under the auspices of the Regional Maritime Information Fusion Center (RMIFC)...

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Madagascar successfully brings back endangered wildlife in cooperation with UNODC and partners .

13 December 2024

A victory in the fight against wildlife trafficking unfolded this December as 16 ring-tailed lemurs, 31 brown lemurs...

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UNODC Mentoring:
Strengthening gender sensitive criminal justice responses in the Seychelles

 

As part of the UNODC Regional Office for Eastern Africa (ROEA) project on supporting the Eastern Africa Police Chiefs Cooperation Organization (EAPCCO) and its Counter-Terrorism Centre of Excellence (CTCoE) to prevent and counter terrorism and transnational organized crime in Eastern Africa, UNODC delivered tailored mentoring sessions for law enforcement and prosecutors in the Seychelles. The sessions aimed to strengthen inter-agency collaboration, address challenges, and share good practices to strengthen gender sensitivity and gender mainstreaming in criminal justice responses to transnational organized crime, terrorism, and sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV).