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Tunisia: Support the reintegration of released inmates

  The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in partnership with the Tunisian General Directorate of Prisons and Reintegration (DGPR) of the Ministry of Justice conducted a national workshop on "Mapping of the healthcare and reintegration services for former prisoners" on 6 September 2018. [Read More]

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Egypt: Promoting Voluntary Counseling and Testing Services to prevent HIV among People Who Inject Drugs

Injecting drug use continues to drive the HIV epidemic in many countries around the world as unsafe injecting practices, including the sharing of contaminated needles and syringes, is a major route for the transmission of both HIV and viral hepatitis among people who inject drugs (PWID).   [Read More]

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Morocco: Cooperating with Civil Society for combating Human Trafficking

With the aim of strengthening the capacities of civil society actors and first-line responders to counter human trafficking and assist victims, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa organized sensitization and training activities on the domestic law on Trafficking in Persons (TiP) (Law. 27-14) within the framework of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) and the supplementary Protocol on Trafficking in Persons (TIP).[Read More]

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