Issue 43 | December 18, 2012
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UNODC News

• Increase in global child trafficking gives cause for concern, says new UNODC report
• Methamphetamine use on the rise in East and South-East Asia
• UNODC Executive Director: To save the orangutan, we must break the links between illegal timber trade, corruption and transnational organized crime
• For an ecology of the mind: blending drug rehab with nature conservation in Sumatra
• UNODC trains over 100 NGOs to help fight corruption
• On International Anti-Corruption Day, UNODC highlights damage to development and the environment
• UNODC Executive Director pledges continued UN support to Indonesia’s anti-corruption efforts
• Lao PDR “extremely vulnerable” to trafficking by transnational organized crime groups, says UNODC Executive Director
• UNODC Executive Director meets Viet Nam Deputy PM Nguyen Xuan Phuc
• UNODC Executive Director Meets Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
• UNODC Chief visits Myanmar, offers UNODC support on poppy, stresses need for all countries to adopt UN Anti-Corruption Convention
• HIV epidemic levelling off, but still on the rise among injecting drug users and vulnerable prison populations
• UNODC Executive Director offers support to Thailand to fight “region’s worsening organized crime and illicit drug trafficking problem”
• UNODC launches Russian website, enhancing commitment to multilingualism
• “Put yourself in my shoes”: a human trafficking victim speaks out

Highlights

International Migrants Day: Working to tackle organized crime and the exploitation of migrants

18 December 2012 - Twenty-two years ago today, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families - an important event both for people who move voluntarily for better economic opportunities and different lifestyles as well as those displaced by conflict, political upheaval, violence, disasters, climate change and, increasingly, economic necessity. In recognition of this, 18 December was designated International Migrants Day - a day on which UNODC takes the opportunity to highlight the role of organized criminal networks that benefit from migrants seeking a better life.  [Read More]

UNODC's latest publications

• 12/10/12 - Handbook for Parliamentarians [arabic]
• 12/10/12 - Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2012
• 10/31/12 - South-East Asia Opium Survey 2012 - Lao PDR, Myanmar

Other international drugs and crime news

• Interpol: Stamping out football corruption through education focus of INTERPOL experts meeting in Singapore
• Interpol: INTERPOL operations in Asia lead to seizure of live tigers and other protected species

• OSCE: OSCE Special Representative encourages Portugal to continue its anti-trafficking efforts
• UNDP: Helen Clark: International Anti-Corruption Day

Resources & campaigns

• Transnational Organized Crime: Let's put them out of business
• International Anti Corruption Day
  
• UNODC in the News
  

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