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UNODC honours colleagues killed in Somalia

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At an open-air service held in Memorial Plaza at the Vienna International Centre (VIC), family, friends, colleagues and country representatives paid a dignified and moving tribute to Clément Gorrissen and Simon Davis who were killed in Puntland, Somalia on 7 April.[Read More]

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A tribute to our fallen colleagues

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On Monday 7 April, two colleagues working for UNODC, Clément Gorrissen, aged 28, and Simon Davis, aged 57, were cruelly killed in an attack by an unidentified gunman in Puntland, Somalia. The two men, who often worked together, were on mission in Somalia to offer technical advice and to help build local capacities in the specialised field of illicit money flows.[Read More]

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UNODC chief launches new Caribbean regional programme

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UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov has launched the Regional Programme in support of the Caribbean Community's (CARICOM) Crime and Security Strategy at an event held at the UN Headquarters in New York.

In his speech, Mr. Fedotov pointed out that transnational organized criminal activities have been identified in the CARICOM Crime and Security Strategy as an immediate and significant threat.[Read More]

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