Issue 8 | May 2 2011
A quick and easy way to update yourself on the latest UNODC news from East Asia and the Pacific

UNODC News

Indonesia

• Fighting a global menace: Indonesia hosts regional transnational crime training forum
• Ministers welcome UNODC assistance in establishing a reporting system on migrant smuggling

Lao People's Democratic Republic

• Lao PDR: Govt officials learn to tackle financial crime

Thailand

• Thailand and UNODC celebrate the promotion and protection of human rights of women prisoners
• UNODC Goodwill Ambassador and Thai anti-human trafficking champion tell of UN small grant opportunity for NGOs

The Philippines

• The Philippines and UNODC collaborate to counter the financing of terrorism

Highlight

UNODC Goodwill Ambassador and Thai anti-human trafficking champion tell of UN small grant opportunity for NGOs

Bangkok (Thailand), 14 April 2011
Across the world, an estimated 2.5 million men, women, and children are trapped in slave-like conditions. Through sexual exploitation, forced labour, domestic servitude and child begging, people in all corners of the globe are held against their will through this horrific crime. A staggering 1.4 million victims, or 56 per cent of the estimated global number, are in Asia and the Pacific.

Read our latest publications and reports

• Implementation Update: 2 (pdf)
• Implementation Update: 2 - Executive Brief (pdf)
• Report of the International Narcotics Control Board for 2010 (pdf)
• Myanmar: Situation Assessment on Amphetamine-Type Stimulants (pdf)
• South-East Asia: Opium Survey 2010 (Lao PDR, Myanmar) (pdf)
• 2010 Client Feedback Survey: UNODC Programme in East Asia and the Pacific (pdf)

Upcoming Events

• Hanoi, Viet Nam - 10-12 May: Computer-based training needs assessment workshop on smuggling of migrants
• Vientiane, Lao PDR - 20-23 May: Senior Officials Committee Meeting of the Signatories to the 1993 Memorandum of Understanding on Drug Control
• Vientiane, Lao PDR - 24 May: High Level Partner Consultation Meeting
• Vientiane, Lao PDR - 24 May: Ministerial Meeting of the Signatories to the 1993 Memorandum of Understanding on Drug Control

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