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World AIDS Day 2007

Red ribbon

30 November - World AIDS Day is commemorated across the world on December 1. As a cosponsor of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), UNODC field and project offices organize and participate in a range of events to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS.[Read More]

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Upgraded directory of Competent National Authorities

29 November - The on-line directory provides information on the competent national authorities (CNAs) designated under the UN Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances of 1988, to send and receive requests for international cooperation in the areas of extradition, mutual legal assistance and drug trafficking by sea.[Read More]

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HIV and Prisons in sub-Saharan Africa

HIV and Prisons in Sub-Saharan Africa

28 November - Of any region in the world, sub-Saharan Africa is the hardest hit by the HIV epidemic with almost two-thirds of all people infected with HIV living in the region. The HIV epidemic has struck prisons and other places of detention around the world with particular severity.[Read More]

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UNODC Initiatives

Paris Pact

Senior international counter-narcotics officials recently met in Kabul to improve efforts to stem the supply of deadly drugs out of Afghanistan. The meeting was organized by UNODC and held in the framework of the Paris Pact; an initiative launched in 2003 to promote coordinated measures to counter narco-trafficking in and from Afghanistan. [Read More]

Star Initiative

By signaling to corrupt leaders that there will be no safe haven for stolen assets, StAR would constitute a formidable deterrent to corruption in developing countries. StAR would also serve to bring in the other side of the corruption equation, as stolen as [Read More]

UN Gift

The Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking (UN.GIFT) aims to mobilize state and non-state actors to eradicate human trafficking by (i) reducing both the vulnerability of potential victims a [Read More]