Highlights
World Drug Report 2007
UNODC releases its flagship publication,
World Drug Report 2007 -
Full Report (pdf)
Multimedia -
video news release,
B-roll Executive Director
Costa B-roll (To download these materials, right-click and "Save Target As..." ) Costa
soundbites
UN drug agency reports "significant and positive changes" in world drugs markets. Countries urged to provide greater health care to drug addicts.
Press release in
Arabic |
Chinese |
English |
French |
Russian |
Spanish
The Global Sport Fund awards first grant to NGO on International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking |
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UNODC upgrades border crossing in Albania |
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Compendium of United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice now available in French, Russian and Spanish |
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Coca cultivation falls in Andean region, more development assistance needed to maintain progress |
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espanol | full
report | Executive summary in
English
Spanish
Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan agree to strengthen counter-narcotics cooperation |
more... | joint statement
here
Opium abuse harming the health of women and children in Afghanistan |
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UNODC chief proposes Asian drug control mechanism to counter synthetic drugs and precursor chemicals |
more... | Full text of speech
here | To view graph of declining trends in Golden Triangle click
here
Violent crime and drug trafficking pose serious threats to development in Central America, UNODC warns |
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Spanish.. Full text of report
here | Full report in
Spanish | video clip of press conference
here (48 mins)
Recent radio interviews |
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Recently updated NGO database |
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Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking
Reuters AlertNet: Human trafficking on the rise in Eastern Africa |
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Regional anti-human trafficking conference in Eastern Africa |
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Brochure on Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking |
here
Speech by Kofi Annan on human trafficking at the Houses of Parliament in London |
here
UNODC launches Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking |
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Spanish
Concept paper for the Global Initiative available
here (pdf)
Key Recent Reports
Coca Cultivation in the Andean Region (June 2007) - click
here
Crime and Development in Central America : Caught in the Crossfire |click
here |
Spanish
Crime, Violence, and Development: Trends, Costs, and Policy Options in the Caribbean - click
here
Afghanistan Opium Winter Assessment - click
here
The UNODC Annual Report 2007 (covering activities in 2006) provides an overview of UNODC's global programmes to make the world safer from illicit drugs and international organized crime -click
here
Afghanistan's Drug Industry: Structure, Functioning, Dynamics, and Implications for Counter-Narcotics Policy (with the World Bank) - click
here
Electronic edition of the Perspectives magazine
UNODC's new magazine Perspectives will cover the broad issues of drugs, crime and terrorism from a number of angles and ensure that voices from all over the world are heard. The magazine is available
online in English. Relevant articles will be translated to other languages.
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26 June 2007 - International Day
Drug control is the theme of the UNODC international multi-year campaign for 26 June, the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. In 2007, the campaign focuses on the abuse of illicit drugs.
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UNODC marked the Inter-national Day against Corruption on 9 December 2006, one year after the United Nations Convention against Corruption entered into force. The theme was "You can stop corruption".
UNODC has produced a number of TV and radio public service announce- ments on topics such as human trafficking, HIV/AIDS and corruption -
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UNODC Goodwill Ambassadors
Photojournalist Alessandro Scotti, Olympic gymnastics champion Igor Cassina and actress Julia Ormond travel around the world raising awareness about drug and crime issues.
UNODC Goodwill Ambassador Alessandro Scotti wins prestigious German media prize -
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Austria's FM4 radio station recently interviewed Alessandro Scotti. Click
here to listen to the interview. To download it, right-click
here and choose "Save Target As...".
Multilingual information
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