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Children and youth champions for positive change: Announcement of winners of UNODC Regional Creative Reading Competition

24 September 2020 - the Middle East and North Africa

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged the education and social sectors to ensure access to learning. To adapt to this context, UNODC Regional Office for the Middle East and North Africa (ROMENA) and UNODC's Education for Justice (E4J) held a regional creative reading competition aimed at actively engaging education and social work professionals, students and youth in community-based activities focused on exploring innovative ways to enable children to have learning experiences and deliver educational messages.  To participate in the competition, children and youth produced videos and creative content reflecting the  "Do It Like The Zorbs"  story in their own way while learning about the values of respect, tolerance, integrity, justice, and fairness.

With September marking International Day for Respect and one of the main values within the Zorbs' story being respect, UNODC hereby announces the winners of the competition who are chosen based on their submissions' simplicity, creativity, and passion;  [Read More]

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Tunisia: Mobile Digital Forensics as a Key Method to Prevent Cybercrime

16 September 2020 - Tunis, Tunisia

The internet currently plays a huge role in our day to day lives and the technological advancements taking place globally have only increased its importance. Such technological developments also came with the negative pendant of cybercrime and cyberterrorism, which is increasingly being perceived as a major threat to the general population and institutions.

Many criminal organizations resort to cybercrime to carry out their illegal activities, translating into attacks directed towards companies and governments. To support Tunisian authorities with the technical capacities to face such threats, UNODC organized four training sessions on Specialized digital Forensics software.[Read More]

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Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from a gender perspective: Tunisia's post-COVD-19 Priorities

27 August 2020 - Tunis, Tunisia

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) adopted by world leaders in 2015 embody a roadmap for progress that is sustainable and leaves no one behind. Achieving gender equality and women's empowerment is integral to each of the 17 goals. Through this vision, the Tunisian Ministry of Women, Family, Children and Elderly Affairs, led by Minister Asma Shiri Laabidi, in collaboration with UNODC, UN Women, UNDP, UNFPA, ILO, and UNOPS organized the international forum "Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) from a gender perspective: Tunisia's post-COVD-19 Priorities" in Tunis, Tunisia.[Read More]

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