Stories from UNODC South Asia

India: As ‘Integrity Guardians,’ rural educators, students champion education on peace and SDGs through UNODC’s GRACE Initiative

UNODC travelled to the Mirzamurad village--located about 40 kilometres outside Varanasi in India's Uttar Pradesh state--in December to build capacities of rural educators and secondary-level students on SDGs, peace, crime prevention and integrity-using free-of-cost educational resources developed under UNODC's GRACE Initiative . [Read More]

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India: UNODC South Asia Consultation brings together regional experts to strengthen responses to wildlife crime

The UNODC Global Programme on Crimes that Affect the environment (GPCAE) held a South Asia Regional Consultation on Addressing Wildlife Crime in New Delhi, India. The Consultation brought together 43 criminal justice and law enforcement officials from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. [Read More]

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Bhutan: UNODC builds stakeholder capacities and strengthens public awareness to counter Trafficking in Persons

A series of two-day trainings on preventing and countering Trafficking in Persons were organised in collaboration with the Department of Law and Order, Bhutan, for representatives from local government, frontline organisations, health workers and civil society in the Samtse, Mongar and Phuntsholing districts. Young people and educators in schools were also engaged through special awareness programs on preventing human trafficking.[Read More]

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