UN Office on Drugs and Crime
- Lori Silberman Brauner
- • April 11, 2016
Experts on human trafficking and slavery are calling for strong involvement by the private sector in tackling the enormous challenge of these abuses, particularly with girls and women. At the same time, the experts, who spoke at a recent…
- Categories: Asia, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Poverty, SDGs, Women
- Lori Silberman Brauner
- • March 28, 2016
Maureen Phiri, a young girl from a poor family in Malawi, was only 11 years old when she was raped by the man who had hired her to do housework for him and his wife. Not only did Maureen continue…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, UN Agencies, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • November 20, 2015
In time for Universal Children’s Day, a new report shows how the war on drugs hurts children’s health, puts them into the line of fire amid drug-gang violence and leads them into the netherworld of human trafficking and enslavement….
- Categories: Gender Violence, Health and Population, Human Trafficking, Latin America, Poverty
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 7, 2014
He is a young man whose name or exactly where he lives in the Burmese countryside cannot be published because he fears retribution when he returns to Myanmar from a visit to the United Nations headquarters. Speaking in English,…
- Categories: Asia, Governance, Myanmar
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 15, 2014
Until recently, José Ramos-Horta led the United Nations’ peace-building mission in Guinea-Bissau, stepping in a year and a half ago as the country reeled from a coup in 2012 and the UN’s former chief there, Joseph Mutaboba, quit his job…
- Categories: Africa, Governance, Peace and Security
- Barbara Crossette
- • June 5, 2014
Confirming recent findings by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States and other agencies around the world, the United Nation Office on Drugs and Crime said in its annual report that new synthetic drugs, sometime…
- Categories: Health and Population, UN Agencies
- Barbara Crossette
- • January 13, 2014
Over the last year, as India and the United States headed for an impasse over how to deal with an Indian deputy consul-general in New York indicted for visa fraud for bringing a domestic worker into the country —…
- Categories: Asia, Human Trafficking, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • March 27, 2013
The 57th session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women ended in mid-March more with a sigh of relief than with jubilation. The commission, comprising 45 national delegations, managed to reach a final agreement (which it…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Special Report, Women
- Barbara Crossette
- • October 19, 2011
The UN Office on Drugs and Crime reported in early October that young men are most at risk of becoming victims of homicide in the Caribbean-Central American region and central and southern Africa. Women in those regions are at…
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