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UNODC co-organizes Security Council Open Arria Formula meeting on Transnational Organized Crime in the Caribbean as threat to peace and stability

UNODC co-organizes first ever Security Council Open Arria Formula meeting on Transnational Organized Crime in the Caribbean as a threat to peace and stability

18 June 2019 - The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), together with Barbados, the Dominican Republic, France, the Netherlands, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Kingdom and the United States co-organized the first ever Security Council Open Arria-formula meeting on "Transnational Organised Crime and Drug Trafficking in the Caribbean Region as a Threat to International Stability" on 7 June in New York.[Read More]

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Preventing and combatting smuggling of migrants by air in focus at Conference co-hosted by UNODC

Preventing and combatting smuggling of migrants by air in focus at Conference co-hosted by UNODC

13 June 2019 - More than 150 participants from the justice, customs, migration and police sectors as well as airlines and airports from the Americas and Europe, gathered in Mexico City from 28 to 30 May to discuss trends, routes, challenges and lessons learned in preventing and combating the smuggling of migrants by air. The event was held in the framework of the SOMMEX (smuggling of migrants Mexico) initiative.[Read More]

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Container Control Programme helps uncover international drug trafficking ring

Container Control Programme helps uncover international drug trafficking ring

In April 2019, World Customs Organization (WCO) training experts conducted an initial training on risk profiling of containers in La Paz, Bolivia, in the framework of the Container Control Programme (CCP), a joint initiative by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime and WCO. The Programme subsequently helped uncover an international drug trafficking ring.[Read More]

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