Issue 40 | October 1, 2012
A quick and easy way to update yourself on the latest UNODC and international drugs and crime news

UNODC News

• Trade of Innocents: Film captures reality of child trafficking for sexual exploitation
• On World Tourism Day, UNODC chief calls for more efforts to tackle trafficking for sexual exploitation
• Where corruption flourishes, development and the rule of law fail, says UNODC chief
• UNODC Executive Director voices commitment to the rule of law at General Assembly high-level meeting
• Coca bush cultivation increases in Peru - coca monitoring survey for 2011
• Coca crop cultivation "falls significantly" in Bolivia, according to 2011 coca monitoring survey
• UNODC video on transnational organized crime reaches 60,000 views

Highlights

UNODC chief presents transnational organized crime study for Central America and the Caribbean to Member States

28 September 2012 - UNODC Executive Director Yury Fedotov presented a new UNODC study entitled Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and the Caribbean: A Threat Assessment to country representatives from the region. The event, held in New York, was attended by the Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of Italy, Mr. Staffan De Mistura. The study examines the impact of the major trafficking flows of cocaine; women and children coerced into the sex trade; migrants smuggled for labour; and firearms. [Read More]

Read our latest publications

• September 27, 2012 - Transnational Organized Crime in Central America and the Caribbean: A Threat Assessment
• September 27, 2012 - Delincuencia Organizada Transnacional en Centroamérica y el Caribe: Una Evaluación de las Amenazas
• September 27, 2012 - Perú: Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca, 2011
• September 17, 2012 - Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia: Monitoreo de Cultivos de Coca 2011
• August 21, 2012 - Migrant Smuggling in Asia: An Annotated Bibliography

Other International Drugs and Crime News

• INTERPOL: 27 September 2012 - Illegal logging nets organized crime up to 100 billion dollars a year, INTERPOL–UNEP report reveals
  
• EMCDDA: 20 September 2012 - EU drugs agency publishes new guidelines for monitoring drug users entering treatment
• Organisation of American States: September 2012 - Country reports for Mechanism for Follow-Up on the Implementation of the Inter-American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC)

Resources

• New UNODC Campaign - Transnational Organized Crime: Let's put them out of business
• UNODC in Pictures
  
• UNODC in the News
  
• UNODC on Twitter
• UNODC on Facebook
  

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