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Innovative community based drug treatment pilot makes inroads in Cambodia

Banteay Meanchey (Cambodia), 8 February 2012 - In a northern Cambodian province, eight small communes are making Cambodian history as the first to trial a community-based approach to drug treatment. With the assistance of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), WHO, UNAIDS, the National Authority for Combating Drugs (NACD) and other...[Read More]

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Project Childhood introduced to Lao PDR

Vientiane (the Lao People's Democratic Republic), 11 January 2012 - As children continue to be trafficked, enslaved, and sexually exploited in the Greater Mekong Sub-region, law enforcement responses against travelling child sex offenders must become an ever more important element in halting and reversing this trend. Such responses include intelligence-led investigations, victim...[Read More]

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Opium cultivation up significantly in Myanmar and Lao PDR, UNODC warns

Bangkok (Thailand), 15 December 2011 - Opium poppy cultivation has doubled in South-East Asia since 2006 according to a report released by UNODC in Bangkok today. Myanmar accounts for the vast majority of this opium, and during the past 5 years the cultivation in this country has increased remorselessly. The regional cultivation figure for 2011 is 16 per cent higher than in the...[Read More]

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