With factors contributing to transnational corruption becoming increasingly complex, the UN launched an initiative on Thursday to “empower all countries” to find practical solutions and better tools to track, investigate and prosecute the scourge.
The effects of corruption are “detrimental to all of society”, the President of the UN General Assembly said on Wednesday during the first day of a special session convened to galvanize political will to fight the scourge.
Governments need to start focusing on control and regulation of drug markets, rather than the traditional policy of prohibition.
That’s according to the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on HIV and AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Michel Kazatchkine.
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Central Narcotics Bureau, Singapore: University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany; UNODC. Please note that the products shown in the photo are simulated.
Countries need to agree what have been described as more “granular” goals on combating illegal drugs.
The call comes in a report from the United Nations University called “What Comes After the War on Drugs – Flexibility, Fragmentation or Principled Pluralism?”
