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Stolen Asset Recovery (StAR) Initiative: Challenges, Opportunities, and Action Plan 

Highlights

New Measures Against the Afghan Opium Tsunami | more

Media advisory: Photography exhibition on human trafficking to open at UN headquarters in New York | more

GSF camp kicks off in Lebanon | more...

Global Sport Fund Football Camp Unites Middle Eastern Youth Against Drugs and Crime| more...

Opening Statement of the Executive Director at the General Assembly's Third Committee, 10 October 2007 | here

UNODC Reports "Worrisome" Rise in Myanmar Opium Production | press release | full report | factsheet | regional overview

Speech of the Executive Director at the Summit of the Heads of States of the Commonwealth of Independent Sates, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 5 October 2007 | English | Russian

Speech of the Executive Director at the Meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Dushanbe, Tajikistan, 4 October 2007 | English | Russian

United Nations Convention against Corruption Receives 100th Ratification | more... 

International food fair showcases alternatives to drugs | more...

UN hosts world premiere of anti-trafficking film ' Trade', staring Kevin Kline | red carpet event | more...

World Bank and UNODC to pursue stolen asset recovery | more... | webcast | International Herald Tribune op-ed by Executive Director Costa | full report ( pdf)

Recent radio interviews | more...

Recently updated NGO database | more...


World Drug Report 2007

UNODC releases its flagship publication, World Drug Report 2007 - Full Report

Multimedia - video news release, B-roll Executive Director Costa B-roll ( To download these materials, right-click and "Save Target As..." ) Costa soundbites

Press release in Arabic | Chinese | English | French | Russian | Spanish


Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking

Visit the UN.GIFT website

South Asian Regional Conference on Human Trafficking | website

UN.GIFT Eastern Africa regional conference | more...

Reuters AlertNet: Human trafficking on the rise in Eastern Africa | more...

Brochure on Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking | here

Speech by Kofi Annan on human trafficking at the Houses of Parliament in London | here

UNODC launches Global Initiative to Fight Human Trafficking | more... | Spanish

Concept paper for the Global Initiative available here (pdf)



Key Recent Reports

Coca Cultivation in the Andean Region (June 2007) - click here

Crime and Development in Central America : Caught in the Crossfire |click here | Spanish

Crime, Violence, and Development: Trends, Costs, and Policy Options in the Caribbean - click here

Afghanistan Opium Winter Assessment - click here

The UNODC Annual Report 2007 (covering activities in 2006) provides an overview of UNODC's global programmes to make the world safer from illicit drugs and international organized crime -click here


Electronic edition of the Perspectives magazine
UNODC's new magazine Perspectives will cover the broad issues of drugs, crime and terrorism from a number of angles and ensure that voices from all over the world are heard. The magazine is available online in English. Relevant articles will be translated to other languages.

26 June 2007 - International Day
Drug control is the theme of the UNODC international multi-year campaign for 26 June, the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking. In 2007, the campaign focuses on the abuse of illicit drugs.
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You can stop corruption UNODC marked the Inter-national Day against Corruption on 9 December 2006, one year after the United Nations Convention against Corruption entered into force. The theme was "You can stop corruption".

UNODC has produced a number of TV and radio public service announce- ments on topics such as human trafficking, HIV/AIDS and corruption - more...

UNODC Goodwill Ambassadors
Photojournalist Alessandro Scotti, Olympic gymnastics champion Igor Cassina and actress Julia Ormond travel around the world raising awareness about drug and crime issues.
UNODC Goodwill Ambassador Alessandro Scotti wins prestigious German media prize - more...
Austria's FM4 radio station recently interviewed Alessandro Scotti. Click here to listen to the interview. To download it, right-click here and choose "Save Target As...".
 

Multilingual information
La Oficina en Colombia ofrece información en español
Visite o website do UNODC Brasil e Cone Sul em português
 

 



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