- Celebrating Achievements on UN Day
Annually, the UN Day provides an opportunity to commemorate the United Nations and what it stands for. This year, together with other UN entities working in Egypt, UNODC celebrated its achievements...
View Article- Concern about low conviction rates of human traffickers raised by latest...
In a press conference held in United Nations Information Centre in Cairo, Mr. Masood Karimipour, UNODC Regional Representative for the Middle East and North Africa, released the UNODC 2014 Global...
View Article- Building Regional Capacities to fight HIV/AIDS among People Who Inject Drugs
A three-day Regional Conference on Opioid Substitution Therapy (OST) - Needle and Syringe Programme (NPS), jointly organized by UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and Middle East North Africa Harm...
View Article- UNODC Supports Sudanese Efforts to Curb Human Trafficking
As one of the largest countries in Africa, Sudan has become a transit hub of mixed migration flows from the Horn of Africa to North Africa and Europe. The irregular nature of many of these migrants...
View Article- Launch of the INCB Annual Report 2014
Some of the countries of the region continued throughout 2014 to witness political transition while others are still undergoing post-revolutionary state building. This, combined with institutional...
View Article- UNODC and EUJUST LEX hold Training on International Cooperation for...
The Iraqi Government has made notable progress in its fight against human trafficking through the accession to the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC) in March 2008,...
View Article- surge in new drugs according to the 2015 INCB Report
02 March 2016 - New psychoactive substances (NPS) are a growing public health challenge, with over 600 new substances reported through October 2015, a 55% increase from 2014, says the 2015 report...
View Article- On Nelson Mandela Day: Prison Reform Underway in Jordan
Freedom, justice and democracy: three pillars that formed a man's dream. A man who devoted his entire life to helping others and making the world a better place. Nelson Mandela's call on the next...
View Article- Egyptian Law Enforcement Officials Trained on Criminal Analysis
On World Refugee Day the world recognizes the difficult lives of refugees around the world and those who are dedicated to helping them. As of today, more than 45.2 million people are in situations of...
View Article- Crime Intelligence Analysis Training Delivered to Egyptian Officials
26 June 2012, Tripoli - UNODC, UNAIDS, WHO, the European Union and the National Center for Disease Control met to hear the new evidence confirming the suspected concentrated HIV epidemic among people...
View Article- A Step Forward in UNODC Development of Palestinian Capacities in Forensics...
On 1 April 2014, the Palestinian Ministry of Justice signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the University of Jordan. Under this MoU, eight Palestinian doctors, contracted by the Ministry of...
View Article- One third of global drug users are women, Says the 2016 INCB Annual Report
It is important that gender aspects be taken into account when examining the world's drug problem, for example in light of the fact that whereas one third of global drug users are women and girls,...
View Article- UNODC Supports Libya's Criminal Justice Reform
On 12 May 2012, 40 representatives from 25 officially registered Egyptian Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and nine Tunisian NGOs gathered to attend a four-day workshop organized by UNODC, in...
View Article- Role of Private Sector in Tackling Corruption Discussed at Egyptian...
As corruption erodes every pillar of business success, the private sector has therefore a vital role to fight it. With this in mind, UNODC along with the United Nations Global Compact Network in Egypt...
View Article- Egyptian Prosecutors Trained on Migrant Smuggling
In collaboration with the National Coordinating Committee on Preventing and Combating Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling, UNODC organized a "Training Workshop to Strengthen the Capacity of...
View Article- Law Enforcement Officers Trained to Respond to Violence against Women
Cairo, 26 October 2017. Violence against women occurs globally, irrespective of a country's social or economic status. However, many acts of violence against women go underreported, as various sectors...
View Article- UNODC and Egypt Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Combat Corruption
6 November 2017 - On the margins of the Conference of the State Parties to the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC), UNODC and the Administrative Control Authority of Egypt today signed...
View Article- Preventing Violent Extremism among children and young adults: "There is a...
Beirut, 4 November 2017 - The phenomenon of violent extremism leading to terrorism is one of the most important reasons behind commissioning terrorist acts. Using the opportunity of Canada's...
View Article- Egyptian Prosecutors Receive Training on Migrant Smuggling
22 December 2017 - Egypt is a source, transit, and destination country for trafficking in persons (TIP) and the smuggling of migrants (SOM). Primary SOM routes are from the Horn of Africa and Eastern...
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