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Egypt: People in Prisons at the core of HIV/AIDS efforts

20 December 2020 - Cairo, Egypt

With this year's World AIDS Day, we reflect on the impact of COVID-19 on health systems worldwide while paying special attention to those people who live with HIV and in need of its services. In 2019, 62% of all new infections were among key populations including people who use drugs and people in prisons. UNODC, in partnership with the Egyptian Ministry of Interior (MoI) and the National AIDS Programme (NAP) of the Ministry of Health and Population (MoHP), conducted two rounds of refresher training to 40 prison medical staff from seven key prisons in Egypt to ensure the continuity and sustainability of services provided.[Read More]

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Libya: Utilizing digital evidence in cybercrime investigations

Tripoli, Libya - 20 December 2020

Trafficking in persons, migrant smuggling and cybercrime can be more than individual crimes. They are also characterized as types of organized crime. The fundamental connection between cybercrime, human trafficking, and migrant smuggling is that they represent a lucrative although illicit business for organized criminal groups, with massive effects on the victims of trafficking or on the migrants who risk their lives to escape violence and conflict. Within that context, UNODC conducted a three-days' hybrid workshop on countering cybercrime in Libya in collaboration with the Ministry of Interior (MoI), Ministry of Justice (MoJ), and relevant authorities.[Read More]

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Egypt: A step towards ending trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants by strengthening judicial responses

Cairo, Egypt - 16 December 2020

Under the regional project funded by the European Union (EU), " Dismantling Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling Criminal Networks in North Africa", UNODC ROMENA together with the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the National Coordinating Committee for Combating and Preventing Illegal Migration and Trafficking in Persons in Egypt (NCCPIM&TIP) organized the first workshop as part of the Egyptian country package of the project. The event was generously hosted and coordinated with the National Center for Judicial Studies (NCJS) within the Ministry of Justice (MoJ). [Read More]

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