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	Combating Crime and Corruption: U.S. Partnership With the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) at Work
		United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime was established, we have watched it evolve into a global leader in the fight against illicit drugs and international crime.
		The project aims to build institutions, develop strategies and improve drug and crime control measures and is focused on the Murghab Province in Tajikistan, the Andijan Province in Uzbekistan, and the Osh Province in Kyrgyzstan.
		While data by definition are hard to come by, UNODC reports that organized crime syndicates, such as the Yakuza, the Triads, and the Mafia amass close to $7 billion annually from the economic and sexual slave trade.
	www.state.gov /p/io/rls/rm/58915.htm (3032 words)

	UN Office on Drugs and Crime Working to Promote "Global Alliance" to Eliminate Criminal Behaviour
		Highlighting the UNODC projects on drugs and crime in countries in Africa, the Americas and Asia, he said the quality of his Office's research efforts would benefit even more from a sharper focus on specific regions.
		He said, however, that the Office could not succeed unless its efforts were better aligned with the needs of assisted countries, as well as the visions of international lenders and donors.
		The ties between illegal drug trafficking and organized crime were growing, and by attacking drug trafficking, the international community was also attacking the source of financing for terrorism, he continued.
	www.dpna.org /10unalliance.htm (912 words)

	United Nations - OCHA IRIN \| Web Special \| Bitter-Sweet Harvest: Afghanistans New War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		UN Office on Drugs and Crime produces research reports, which includes World Drug Report, an annual statistical report called the Global Illicit Drug Trends, a Bulletin on Narcotics and Studies on Drugs and Crime monographs.
		UN Office on Drugs and Crimes, Strategic Study #1, June (1998): “An Analysis of the Process of Expansion of Opium Cultivation to New Districts in Afghanistan”.
		Drug Policy Alliance is the leading organization working to broaden the public debate on drug policy and to promote realistic alternatives to the war on drugs based on science, compassion, health and human rights.
	www.irinnews.org /webspecials/Opium/weblinks.asp (1436 words)

	India has widespread drug problem, report says -- Kumar 329 (7456): 14 -- BMJ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Millions of Indians are dependent on alcohol, cannabis, and opiates, and drug misuse is a pervasive phenomenon in Indian society, says a new report, published jointly by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime and India’s Ministry of Social Justice.
		"That drug abuse is an exclusively urban phenomenon is a myth," said Gary Lewis, the South Asia regional representative of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
		Injecting drugs is fairly widespread throughout the country and not restricted to the northeastern states—the common perception.
	bmj.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/329/7456/14-h (547 words)

	Co
		The UNODC Regional Office in Moscow (Head - F.Mirella) is responsible for Office’s activities in the Republic of Belarus.
		The Republic of Belarus participates in the UN Conventions on Narcotic Drugs of 1961, 1971 and 1988, anti-trafficking Conventions of 1921, 1933 и 1949.
		UN General Assembly Special Session, the National Program to Combat Illegal Drug-Trafficking in Belarus is under implementation, the appropriate Interdepartmental Council is also functioning.
	www.byembassy.at /VIC/coop_UNODOC.at.htm (383 words)

	Central Asia & Drugs
		Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, said during a recent trip to the region that at least 25 percent of the drugs produced in Afghanistan crosses through the former Soviet republics of Central Asia.
		The UN says those figures are accompanied by a worrying rise in drug use in the region.
		According to the report -- based on an assessment launched in 2000 -- the number of drug addicts in Kazakhstan, a country of some 15 million, is estimated to be as high as 186,000.
	www.exorthodoxforchrist.com /central_asia_&_drugs.htm (1189 words)

	The World Factbook 2004 -- Field Listing - Background
		Under UN supervision the last Serb-held enclave in eastern Slavonia was returned to Croatia in 1998.
		Most of his term was usurped by a military takeover, but he was able to return to office in 1994 and oversee the installation of a close associate to the presidency in 1996.
		In 2001, the UN imposed sanctions on Liberian diamonds along with an army embargo and a travel ban on government officials for Liberia's support of the rebel insurgency in Sierra Leone.
	www.brainyatlas.com /fields/2028.html (15472 words)

	UN Fights Crime
		Recognizing that technology and globalization have created new opportunities for organized crime, the United Nations recently concluded a four-day conference that included the signing of several treaties intended to fight international criminal syndicates.
		UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said technology and internationalizations have allowed crime bosses to keep one step ahead of authorities in many countries.
		A UN conference in Thailand in March 2000 estimated that thousands of children are forced to work in Asia's flourishing sex industry.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/00organizedcrime1.html (574 words)

	UN Office on Drugs and Crime Says 200 Million People Have Used Illicit Drugs in the Past 12 Months (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Estimated by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime to be worth 321 billion dollars, the drug trade impacts almost every level of life, from health to safety to social welfare.
		The consequences of the drug trade are especially devastating for countries like Afghanistan, a country which has limited resources available to fight against it.
		Antonio Maria Costa is head of UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
	radio.un.org /story.asp?NewsID=3443 (202 words)

	UN Says Colombian Coca Cultivation Down 30 Percent, Overall Production Down, Too -- Experts Say Not Really
		The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime reported Monday that 102,000 hectares of coca were being grown in Colombia at the end of 2002, a 30% reduction compared to the 145,000 grown a year earlier.
		Drug warriors and the Colombian government hailed the figures as a victory, but some experts question the numbers, while others point out that the reported reduction in Colombia has come at a great cost in terms of displacement of civilian populations and environmental destruction caused by widespread and increasing aerial fumigation.
		And although the UN Office on Drugs and Crime was coy about how the Colombian reduction was achieved, referring to "government-sponsored eradication," in key Colombian coca-producing provinces, it is the Uribe government's wholehearted embrace of aerial fumigation that has killed the coca crop -- along with food crops and farm animals.
	www.stopthedrugwar.org /chronicle/279/colombiacoca.shtml (1157 words)

	AEGiS-Asia Times: BOOK REVIEW: The curse of the poppy - The Opium Economy in Afghanistan. An International Problem by ...
		But the most definitive test case of our times for proof of narco-terrorism and its power of destroying a country is Afghanistan, producer of 75 percent of global opium stocks and not coincidentally the victim of the worst kind of warlordism, religious fundamentalism and civil society devastation.
		UN interviews reveal that 85 percent of southern Afghan opium traders perform the expensive hajj pilgrimage and enjoy access to power, reputation and respect in their localities.
		Drug consumption in Afghanistan has increased strongly in recent years owing to cheap and universal availability of illicit opium, the mass return of refugees who developed addiction in Pakistan and Iran, and the use of opiates as painkillers in the absence of basic medication and health care facilities.
	www.aegis.com /news/atimes/2003/AT030404.html (2091 words)

	UNODC Lao PDR
		UNODC assists the government's accession to the UN drug, crime and terrorism conventions and protocols and increase technical capacity in Laos to meet international standards and to strengthen law enforcement competence to fight illicit drugs, transnational crime, corruption and terrorism.
		Information released in the round table meeting on harmonisation of drug control assistance in Laos showed that the country is close to reach eliminating opium with opium poppy areas reduced by 93 percent and opium addiction by 84 percent.
		Drug Control is the theme of the UNODC International multi-year campaign for 26 June, the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
	www.unodc.org /laopdr/index.html (689 words)

	UN: Web: Office on Drugs and Crime Addresses the Swedes on Marijuana (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		So that DRCNet readers may see what drug reformers are up against at the United Nations next month in Vienna, the Week Online here provides excerpts from a speech given by UN Office on Drugs and Crime head Antonio Maria Costa on March 7 at the International Cannabis Symposium in Stockholm.
		Acosta hypes the drug menace: "[W]orld public opinion has become much more aware of, and involved in appraising the risks and the consequences of drug abuse, urging governments to place all attendant forms of uncivil behavior high on the public policy agenda.
		relaxation ) of current drug control legislation are hardly consistent with member countries' stated objective of protecting present and future generations from the devastating consequences of nicotine addiction -- itself not an illicit substance.
	www.mapinc.org /ctcnews/v03/n411/a08.html (904 words)

	Common Sense for Drug Policy Presents: Harm Reduction
		Drug injecting is responsible for 80% of the cases in eastern Europe and central Asia, and is also driving the epidemic in a wide range of countries in the Middle East, north Africa, south and south-east Asia and Latin America.
		At a meeting in Vienna earlier this year the UN agency responsible for the policing of narcotics, the United Nations office on drugs and crime, was forced to accept the US line and oppose needle exchanges.
		In the TNI webpage on the UN and harm reduction, they point out that "This position taken by Mr Costa under US pressure is in direct conflict with many statements made by other UN agencies on this issue as well with statements made by UNODC representatives or in UNODC documents in the recent past.
	www.csdp.org /news/news/harmreduction.htm (2112 words)

	Antonio Maria Costa - Tackling Cross Border Crime
		We at the UN Office on Drugs and Crime have become increasingly aware of the link between development (or the lack thereof) and the growth of organized crime and high-level corruption, which is the focus of this conference.
		The preliminary findings demonstrate the need to build institutions in order to establish the rule of law in societies where the nexus of organized crime, corruption and terror capture state power or political influence, where the quality of life of citizens is diminished, and where the wider world is endangered.
		Organized crime and corruption cross-borders - indeed use the constraints posed by borders on law enforcement agencies as a comparative advantage - and so the fight against these phenomenon must be a cross-national and global enterprise.
	www.inwent.org /ef-texte/crime/costa.htm (3042 words)

	Memorandum of Understanding between the ASEAN Secretariat and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, on Drug Control and ...
		Considering that the Office on Drugs and Crime, which consists of a drug programme and a crime programme, was established in 1997 to enable the United Nations to focus and enhance its capacity to address the interrelated issues of drug control and crime prevention;
		The ASEAN Secretariat and the Office on Drugs and Crime shall arrange, to the fullest extent possible and so far as is practicable, and subject to their respective policies on confidentiality, for the exchange of information and documents on matters of common interest.
		Attendance at ASEAN and Office on Drugs and Crime meetings would be governed by the "Guidelines on Non-ASEAN Participation in ASEAN Meetings and Activities" and by "Rule 74 of the Rules of Procedure of the Functional Commissions of the Economic and Social Council", respectively.
	www.aseansec.org /16402.htm (871 words)

	BBC NEWS \| South Asia \| UN warns of Afghan 'drug state'
		The UN said it would be an "historical error" to abandon the nation to opium.
		The UN Afghanistan Opium Survey 2004 said the drug was now the "main engine of economic growth and the strongest bond among previously quarrelsome peoples".
		Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said the report was a wake-up call to the world.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/click/rss/0.91/public/-/2/hi/south_asia/4022197.stm (577 words)

	Online Burma Library > Main Library > Drugs > Drugs and Burma > Drugs and Burma: UN System > UN Office ...
		As the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, or UNODC, lobbies governments to increase their contributions to opium eradication projects, it is worth looking back on the last major phase of international funding of narcotics suppression, to be reminded of what Burma’s military government did with it.
		"Jean-Luc Lemahieu is the Rangoon representative of the UN Office of Drugs and Crime.
		I think the burning of the drugs has a symbolic value and it can serve certain purposes, it can serve as an indicator and as a message of good will, there are different ways to look at it.
	www.ibiblio.org /obl/show.php?cat=1087&lo=&sl=1 (2572 words)

	UN
		The UN Office on Drugs and Crime project, funded by the Governments of Switzerland, Netherlands, Canada and under the patronage of the First Lady Ms.
		The UNODC, in accordance with its mandate of both rehabilitation of judicial institutions and protection of juveniles, was requested by the Government of Lebanon to assist the national authorities to strengthen the legislative and institutional capacities of the juvenile system and to formulate a strategy directed towards the improvement of prison conditions for young offenders.
		The UN Office on Drugs and Crime is the central repository of international technical expertise in matters of crime prevention, criminal justice and criminal law reform (until end 2002, it was called the UN Office for Drug Control and Crime Prevention, ODCCP).
	www.un.org.lb /un/details.asp?id=11 (350 words)

	Khaleej Times Online - UAE inks deal to host UN drugs, crime office
		The office, expected to be operational within the next three months, will operate under the Cairo-based UN regional Office on Drugs and Crime.
		The office will also be tasked with coordinating anti-drugs efforts amongst the country's agencies concerned.
		"Drug quantities confiscated during this period weighed 18,771 kilograms of hashish, 431 kg of heroin and 111 kg of opium.
	www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2004/November/theuae_November544.xml§ion=theuae (719 words)

	UN Office on Drugs and Crime Launches Project To Support Juvenile Justice Reform in Lebanon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		UN Office on Drugs and Crime Launches Project To Support Juvenile Justice Reform in Lebanon
		Andrée Lahoud, The UN Office on Drugs and Crime will launch "The Project To Support Juvenile Justice Reform in Lebanon" at the Presidential Palace on 24 January 2003
		The commitment of the Government of Lebanon to reinforce and restructure the national capacities in the field of juvenile justice represent an unparalleled opportunity to improve the conditions of children and adolescents in the country.
	www.escwa.org.lb /information/press/un/2003/jan/20.html (373 words)

	Transnational Organized Crime and Corruption
		Those found guilty of trafficking crimes face significantly increased jail time--up to 20 years in prison from the previous maximum of 10 years for many infractions, and up to life imprisonment in certain circumstances.
		The UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime codifies many of the most effective law enforcement and crime prevention strategies currently in existence into international law--a great achievement of which we can all be proud.
		The United States is very pleased to offer its technical and financial support to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime as it works to promote the ratification and implementation of the Convention internationally, as well as its supplementary protocols on trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants.
	www.state.gov /p/inl/rls/rm/45393.htm (1616 words)

	Common Sense for Drug Policy: United Nations Anti-Drug Programs and Research
		Civil society groups want a target of providing drugs by 2010 to 80 percent of people whose infection is advanced enough to require antiretroviral treatment and to 80 percent of infected pregnant women, as well as to all people who have both tuberculosis and AIDS.
		The UN's estimates are dramatically lower than those produced by the US government for that same year (see US Cocaine Production Estimates Reveal Little Or No Drop In Production In Spite Of Intense Eradication Campaign ).
		Britain's former deputy drug tsar Mike Trace said yesterday there would be an alarming US-led attempt next week at the UN's annual commission on narcotic drugs meeting in Vienna to rule out the use of needle exchange and other programmes to deal with the growing epidemic.
	www.csdp.org /news/news/undrug.htm (5304 words)

	Nhan Dan --- News
		He affirmed that the Vietnamese Communist Party and State always consider drug and crime prevention to be important and that Vietnam is determined to combat drugs and crime to ensure social order and security.
		For his part, Undersecretary Costa said the UN has spared no effort to support Vietnam in improving the efficiency of drug and crime control.
		The UN’s projects in Vietnam in the coming years, he added, will focus on three areas, including the enforcement of drug-related verdicts, detoxification activities in the north, and improving the country’s competence in preventing money laundering.
	www.nhandan.com.vn /english/news/020306/domestic_president.htm (337 words)

	Op-Ed: U.S. Ideologues Put Millions at Risk
		Delegates are gathering for the 48th meeting of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, a largely unpublicized UN entity that sets the international drug control agenda and that this year is focusing on questions of HIV prevention.
		Completely dependent on donor contributions—the largest share from the United States—the Office on Drugs and Crime is caught between the rock of American intransigence on drug policy and the hard facts that show needle exchange and other harm-reduction strategies to be effective.
		What is needed at this year's Commission on Narcotic Drugs is unanimous commitment to deploying the tools, including needle exchange, known to reduce HIV among drug users, not the American policy of scuttling prevention methods proven to save lives.
	www.soros.org /resources/articles_publications/articles/neier_20050307 (579 words)

	Participating in the U
		Hosted by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the Crime Commission serves as the primary policy-making body on crime issues in the UN system.
		Experts from fourteen different countries met to revise community-based crime prevention guidelines that were originally drafted during the Tenth United Nations Congress on the Prevention of Crime and the Treatment of Offenders, held in Vienna in 2002.
		Further discussions were held at the 11th Session of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Austria, Vienna in April.
	www.ojp.usdoj.gov /nij/international/un_activities_arch_text.html (899 words)

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