Law and Crime Prevention

Experts gather for UN meeting to tackle flow of heroin from Afghanistan

12 October 2004
Asia Pacific

United Nations officials and senior policy-makers from around the world are meeting today in Vienna to discuss how to halt or reduce the rising flood of heroin being exported from Afghanistan.

UN Photo/Ky Chung

Annan says UN working on new tools to foster rule of law and transitional justice

6 October 2004
Global

The United Nations is working on developing "important new tools" to strengthen its support for the rule of law and transitional justice in States that are either still facing or just emerging from conflict, Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the Security Council today.

Laos reduces opium poppy cultivation by half - UN report

9 July 2004
Asia Pacific

Opium cultivation in Laos fell by 45 per cent this year, and if it continues alongside a similar decline in Myanmar, could mean the end of more than 100 years of opium production in the Golden Triangle, the United Nations anti-drug agency said today.