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Alternative Development Project in Laos enables former opium farmers to learn about Coffee Cultivation from experts

Alternative Development Project in Laos enables former opium farmers to learn about Coffee Cultivation from experts

14 January 2019 - The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's (UNODC) alternative development programme in Lao PDR helps farmers move from cultivating opium to cash crops such as coffee. As part of this effort, UNODC enabled a group of new coffee farmers from the North of the country to participate in a week-long study visit to an already established community of coffee growers in southern Laos.[Read More]

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Myanmar opium cultivation continues to drop as regional drug market changes: UNODC report

Myanmar Opium Survey 2018

11 January 2019 - The area of opium poppy cultivation in Myanmar dropped to 37,300 hectares in 2018, down 10 per cent from the 41,000 hectares recorded in 2017, according to the Myanmar Opium Survey 2018 released today by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).[Read More]

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First Conviction in Colombia for Trafficking in Persons for Domestic Servitude

Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2018

9 January 2019 - The first conviction for Trafficking in Persons for domestic servitude was handed down in Colombia in September 2018. The case was led by a Prosecutor who participated in a UNODC training and based her legal arguments before the court on concepts she had learned in the training, including the concept of abuse of a position of vulnerability. The judicial decision of the case refers to a relevant UNODC Issue Paper.[Read More]

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