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Drug control efforts should focus more on health than crime, says UN official

10 March 2008
The head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has urged measures to address the “image problem” of global drug control efforts, which he says tend to focus more on the criminality of the problem and not enough on health-related issues.

Liechtenstein can do more to enhance its financial integrity – UN anti-crime chief

22 February 2008
The head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has called on Liechtenstein to take further steps to enhance its integrity as a financial centre after the tiny European principality recently ratified a global pact against international organized crime and human trafficking.

UN forum hears calls for measures to combat human trafficking

13 February 2008
Policy makers and celebrities today joined their voices in calling for action against human trafficking, as the first-ever global United Nations forum on the problem opened in Vienna.

Bali to host UN meeting on stamping out corruption

16 January 2008
Over 1,000 people from more than 100 nations – including Government officials, business leaders, law enforcement personnel, journalists, entertainers and civil society representatives – will convene in Bali, Indonesia, later this month for a United Nations conference on curbing corruption.

Countries ignorant about threats posed by transnational crime – UN agency chief

23 April 2007
Law enforcement authorities around the world “operate in an information fog” about transnational organized crime, ignorant of the scope of the threats faced and unable to gauge global trends, the head of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) warned today, calling on UN Member States to develop a coherent blueprint to deal with the problem.
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Sweden’s drug control policies model for other States – UN official

7 September 2006
The Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said today that Sweden’s successful drug control policies were a model which other countries could emulate.

Illicit drug cultivation down, but mixed results on other narcotics goals – UN report

1 September 2005
While substantial efforts have been made to eradicate illicit crops and develop alternatives in opium poppy and coca-growing countries, much remains to be done in the fight against the $322 billion world drug trade, according to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s latest report on the issue.
Security experts assist in the prevention of nuclear trafficking

UN launches container control programme to fight illicit trafficking

21 October 2004
The United Nations crime fighting agency has teamed with customs agencies around the world to combat the illegal transport of people, weapons and drugs in the more than 7 million shipping containers that move around the globe each day.

Demand in Europe driving cannabis cultivation in Morocco, UN anti-drug agency says

16 December 2003
The demand for cannabis in Europe is driving more farmers in Morocco to cultivate the plant at the expense of legal crops, resulting in a growing industry now worth about $12 billion, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) said today.