- Safe Airports for Safer Citizens: UNODC AIRCOP supports Iraq in addressing...
Baghdad, Iraq Terrorist and organized criminal operations have globally grown in complexity. As the number of air passengers are expected to double in the coming 20 years, airports and the...
View Article- Lebanon – “From Suspect of Terrorism to Faith in Life”: The launch of the...
Beirut, Lebanon "When I think about what I did, I realize how blind I was. How could I have believed them and followed them without hesitation?" R-K According to the latest report of the United...
View Article- Egypt: Follow the Money and Find the Trafficker: Financial Investigation...
Cairo, Egypt Trafficking in Persons (TiP) and Smuggling of Migrants (SoM) are two crimes that involve moving human beings for profit. A significant proportion of such profit flows through the global...
View Article- Morocco: On occasion of the European Union Anti-Human Trafficking Day,...
Rabat, Morocco On the 18 th of October 2019, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the European Union (EU) launched the Morocco country package of the regional project "...
View Article- Taking the stage to save lives: Mock trials on migrant smuggling and human...
Every year, many people fall victim to human trafficking and migrant smuggling. Smuggled migrants and trafficked persons often undergo multiple forms of abuse, exploitation, human rights violations,...
View Article- UNODC and LAS fourth Steering and Follow-up Committee Meeting for the...
Cairo, Egypt On the 13 and 14 of November 2019, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) and the League of Arab States (LAS) held the fourth Steering and Follow-up Committee Meeting for...
View Article- Lighting up the way for new beginnings: Prisoners Graduate from the First...
Jericho, Palestine On the 19th of November 2019 nine prisoners at the Jericho Correctional and Rehabilitation Centre (CRC) concluded their four-month training on Electrical Installations. The training...
View Article- Jordan: The launch of the Integrated Border Management project
Amman, Jordan The Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan together with the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the European Union (EU), and the International Centre for Migration...
View Article- Joint Press Release (UN Women, IOM and UNODC): Experts from the MENA...
Cairo,Egypt 24 November 2019 - Trafficking in human beings for the purposes of exploitation is a major challenge to global development and stability. Women and girls are frequently the victims of this...
View Article- Press Release: Egypt hosts the first Regional Forum for National...
Cairo, Egypt 26 -28 November, 2019 - Supported by the United Kingdom, Egypt's National Coordinating Committee for Preventing and Combating Illegal Migration and Trafficking in Persons (NCCPIM-TIP)...
View Article- Egypt hosts the first Regional Forum in Africa for National Coordinating...
Cairo, Egypt In today's globalized world the power of cooperation and coordination networks for fighting human trafficking and migrant smuggling is not to be underestimated. As organized criminal...
View Article- Egypt: HIV Prevention, Treatment and Care Services in Prisons
Cairo, Egypt To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and more specifically SDG 3, " Ensure Healthy Lives and Promote Well-Being for All at All Ages," target 3.3 and the UNAIDS Fast-Track...
View Article- Iraq: Evidence-based approaches to Airport security: National Workshop on...
Erbil, Kurdistan region, Iraq The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) also known as Da'esh, has called on its supporters and affiliates to carry out attacks wherever they are located. Returning...
View Article- GLO.ACT organizes roundtable meeting to officially commence project...
Erbil, Iraq On 15 December 2019 UNODC, under the framework of the Global Action against Trafficking in Persons and the Smuggling of Migrant ( GLO.ACT Asia and the Middle East), organized a roundtable...
View Article- GLO.ACT supports counterparts in Iraq to review national legislation on...
Erbil, Iraq - UNODC, under the framework of the Global Action against Trafficking In Persons and the Smuggling of Migrant ( GLO.ACT Asia and the Middle East) conducted a two-day workshop from 16 to 17...
View Article- GLO.ACT conducts workshop with judicial investigators and prosecutors in...
Erbil, Iraq - UNODC, under the framework of the Global Action against Trafficking in Persons and the Smuggling of Migrants (GLO.ACT Asia and the Middle East) organized a two-day workshop for judicial...
View Article- Sudan: Embarking on a holistic approach to future cooperation
Khartoum, Sudan Last year brought about great changes to Sudan with a new transitional Government taking over and working towards strengthening justice, rule-of-law, democratic governance and...
View Article- UNODC trains Tunisian officers in Strategic Trade and Export Control
Tunisia - The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Container Control Programme (CCP) organized a one-week training on Strategic Trade and Export Control (STEC) for officials in Tunisia...
View Article- Lebanon: risk-based approach to secure air borders
Beirut, Lebanon Exploitation of the increasing number of air passengers, by organized criminal groups and terrorist entities to move their people, goods and ideologies across borders, is identified as...
View Article- Arab Regional Workshop on National and Regional efforts to Combat Human...
Cairo, Egypt - Human trafficking is a complex crime and a violation of human rights that is committed with the intention to exploit. Such exploitation can be for, inter alia, forced labour, sexual...
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