drugs and crime

Abandoned buildings at the Barclay training center in downtown Monrovia, a notorious meeting point for drug dealers and users. Here, a suspect is identified and searched for drugs and weapons. (2008)
UNMIL Photo/Christopher Herwig

Crime and drugs in West and Central Africa: Security Council highlights 'new alarming trends’

19 December 2018
Law and Crime Prevention

West and Central Africa faces “disruptive and destabilising” new trends regarding drug trafficking, drug use and other crimes, according to Yury Fedotov, Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), who briefed the UN Security Council on Wednesday.

Blue Heart Campaign. Image: UNODC

“Only one out of 100 people are rescued” from human trafficking

29 July 2016
General News

Only one out of 100 people are rescued from human trafficking according to a senior UN official working on the issue.

Simone Monasebian is head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in New York.

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Illegal trade in wildlife and timber products finances criminal and militia groups, threatening security and sustainable development.
World Bank/Curt Carnemark

DOHA: UN forum to discuss link between crime prevention and sustainable development

9 April 2015
Ahead of a major summit in New York in September on the future global development agenda, the 13th United Nations Crime Congress will convene in Doha next week to discuss the links between crime prevention, security, justice and sustainable development.
Forensic police officers examine evidence collected at a crime scene.
UN Photo/Martine Perret

UN anti-crime chief says ‘integrated’ approach needed to halt migrating transnational crime

15 October 2012
The United Nations’ top anti-crime official today called for integrated international and civil society initiatives to choke off crime syndicates that have shown they can evade justice by quickly shifting to a new location when the law catches up with them at an initial location.